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The Gold Hunters Of California from Century Magazine 1890 - 1981
1890024878NY: The Century Company 1890. Book. VG. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1890-1891 175pp printed in double columns illustrated with over 90 drawings plus 4 maps including The Western Territories in the Forties Showing the Principal Routes of Exploration The California Coast Under the Mexican Regime Placer Regions of California in the Fifties with an inset of San Francisco Bay and Vicinity and the Panama Route and 24 portraits including John Bidwell Father De Smet General M. G. Vallejo General John A. Sutter Don Juan B. Castro Don Manuel Castro Pio Pico who was Governor of California in 1845 General Andres Pico Maria De Jesus Vallejo or Sister Maria Teresa Maria Antonia Lugo who was the mother of General Vallejo Dona Vallejo born Francisca Benicia Carrillo who was General Vallejo's widow Kit Carson with facsimile autograph Jacob P. Leese Juan B. Alvarado who was Governor 1836 - 1842 Manuel Micheltorena who was Governor 1842 - 1845 James W. Marshall Azaria Smith and Henry W. Bigler who were survivors of the party of discovery at Sutter's Mill Samuel Brannan who led a colony of Mormon's to San Francisco in July 1846 Charles Preuss topographer on the first two Fremont expeditions Jim Bridger Alexis Godey Commander J. B. Montgomery later Rear-Admiral Thomas H. Benton Jessie Benton Fremont and George Bancroft salvaged from a damaged copy of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Volume 41. Specific pieces include The First Emigrant Train To California by General Bidwell Grizzly And Pioneer by Shinn The Making Of California anonymous Life In California Before The Gold Discovery by Bidwell Ranch And Mission Days In Alta California by Vallejo Trading With The Americans by Higuera The Date Of The Discovery Of The Yosemite by Pratt Pioneer Spanish Families In California by Shinn The Missions Of Alta California by Doyle A California Lion And A Pirate by Castro A Carnival Ball At Monterey In 1829 by Briones A Letter From General Sutter by Sutter Fremont In The Conquest Of California by Bidwell The Discovery Of Gold In California by Hittell Marshall's Own Account Of The Gold Discovery by Gillespie Confirming The Gold Discovery by Kemble Resume Of Fremont's Expedition by M. N. O. The Origin Of The Fremont Explorations by Jessie Benton Fremont Rough Times In Rough Places by McGehee Montgomery And Fremont by Royce Three Gold- Dust Stories by Marshall To California by Panama in 1849 by Pratt The Conquest Of California by John Charles Fremont The Official Policy For The Acquisition Of California anonymous Hardships Of The Isthmus in 1849 by Ferris and Spanish Jealousy Of Vancouver by Doyle. Maps by Jacob Swells W. Taber George Wharton Edwards O. Toasperm A. Brennan V. Perard G. D. F. Brush Frederick Remington A. Lambourne and from photographs by Lieut. Harris. Set includes a contents page and is housed in two mylar report covers. This is a tremendous set of Californiana / Western Americana and surprisingly never elsewhere published in its entirety. The Century Company Paperback
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