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A Visit to California in 1841 : as recorded for Hubert Howe Bancroft in an interview with Joseph B. Chiles / Foreword by George R. Stewart including his essay about Chiles written in 1920.
- Title
- A Visit to California in 1841 : as recorded for Hubert Howe Bancroft in an interview with Joseph B. Chiles / Foreword by George R. Stewart including his essay about Chiles written in 1920.
- Publication
- Berkeley, Calif. : Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1970.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F864.C5 V5 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 21 p. port.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- Joseph Ballinger Chiles was one of the more colorful of the early California pioneers. He was an assiduous fiddle-player, a lover of jokes and joking, and a hunter of grizzlies. Born in Kentucky, Chiles served as a colonel in the U.S. Army during the Seminole Wars, before eventually immigrating to Alta California, where he became a Mexican citizen and acquired multiple rancho grants in the Napa Valley and Sacramento Valley. He settled into life in the Napa Valley, becoming a ranchero and entrepreneur, running a ferry to Sacremento, and operating a grist mill. He was friends with many prominent Californian settlers such as George Yount, James Clyman, Billy Baldridge, John Charles Fremont and Jerome C. Davis for whom the city of Davis was named.
- Series Statement
- Friends of the Bancroft Library. Keepsakes, no. 18
- Uniform Title
- Series of keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members no. 18.
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- History
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- LCCN
- ^^^70024525^
- OCLC
- 141851
- SCSB-12719090
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library