Research Catalog

Title

So far from home : Russians in early California / edited by Glenn J. Farris.

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday ; Santa Clara, Calif. : Santa Clara University, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Farris, Glenn J.

Description

xii, 369 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Fascinating detailed collection about a little known corner of California (and U.S.) history when the Russians came to settle and hunt for fur. Celebration of 200 year anniversary of Fort Ross Fascinating detailed collection about a little known corner of California (and U.S.) history when the Russians came to settle and hunt for fur. Celebration of 200 year anniversary of Fort Ross" -- Publisher description.

Series Statement

California legacy book

Uniform Title

California legacy book.

Subject

• Russians > Fort Ross > History > Sources
• Fort Ross (Calif.) > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. High anxiety about Russians in the North Pacific and Spain's stimulus to settle Alta California, CA. 1768-1769 -- Junta held at San Blas to plan the occupation of Monterey Bay (May 16, 1768) -- 2. Sea otter poaching by Yankee shipmasters using Russians and Alaskan natives, starting in 1803 -- 3. Visit by Rezanov in 1806 to obtain supplies for Alaska : the start of a series of Russian visits to California -- Report from Rezanov to Rumiantsev concerning trade and other relations between Russian America, Spanish California, and Hawaii (June 17, 1806) -- Langsdorff on the Rezanov-Argüello romance (1806) -- Langsdorff's narrative of Rezanov's voyage to Nueva California (1806) -- Fr. Señán's reaction to Rezanov's voyage -- Follow-up letter from Rumiantsev to Stroganov suggesting the value of mutual trade between California and Russian America (April 20, 1808) -- 4. The Russian American Company moves into California --^
• Directions from Baranov to Kuskov as to his expedition to California (October 14, 1808) -- Report by Kuskov to Baranov of his expedition to "New Albion" (October 5/17, 1809) --Report from Luis Argüello to Governor Arrillaga (February 16, 1809) -- 5. Tarakanov and Chiefs Ióllo and Vallí :Éla and the negotiations for Fort Ross -- 6. Construction and early years of Fort Ross, 1812-1815 -- Fort Ross in its first year under Kuskov (post 1831) -- Luis Argüello's report to Governor Arrillaga of Lieutenant Moraga's visit to Fort Ross (September 7, 1812) -- Report of Gabriel Moraga and Gervasio Argüello's visit to Fort Ross (1914) -- Kuskov's response to governor Arrillaga's letter about the status of Fort Ross (1814) -- Equipment and supplies sent to Fort Ross (1812-1815) -- 7. Trade with California by the Russian American Company, particularly Khlebnikov -- Letters from Fr. Gil y Taboada to Khlebnikov (1825-1831) -- Khlebnikov's journal (July 18/29, 1824) --^
• 8. Story of the Brigantine Lydia/il'Mena -- Letter to Kuskov from Khlebnikov from the site of the wreck of the Il'mena (1820) -- 9. Russian round-the-world adventurers visit California, 1822-1824 -- Schabelski describes a visit of the Russian warship Apollon to California (1822-1823) -- Zavalishin's account of a visit to California aboard the Kreiser (1823-1824) -- The Russian-built "Kanaka Hotel," from Two Years Before the Mast /Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1840) -- 10. Russian and Kodiak deserters, captives, and martyrs : Bolcoff, Egorov, and St. Peter the Aleut --
• 11. Trips up the Russian (Slavianka) River (1820 and 1833) -- Khlebnikov on the Russian River (July 20/31, 1820) -- Wrangell on the Russian River (September 1833) -- 12. Botanists on Russian expeditions to California in 1816 and 1824 -- Alice Eastwood on the botanical collections of Chamisso and Eschscholtz in California (1944) -- The collections of Eschscholtz (1826) -- Excerpts from Chamisso's journal (1816) -- Fauna named by or for Russians (1984) -- 13. The transformation of Fort Ross's primary function from fur hunting to agriculture and light industry -- Governor Wrangell's report concerning a visit to Fort Ross (1833) -- Kostromitinov's report to the headquarters of the Russian American Company (July 31/August 10, 1833) -- Chernykh and the Scottish thresher at Fort Ross (1836-1841) -- Chernykh's report on agriculture in California (1841) -- 14. Russian interaction with the neighboring Indians -- Kostromitinov's observations on the Indians of Upper California (1839) --^
• Kashaya accounts of life at Fort Ross (1964) -- 15. Foreign visitors to Bodega Bay and Fort Ross -- Canonigo Fernández de San Vicente, accompanied by Fr. Payeras (1822) -- Auguste Bernard Duhaut-Cilly (1828) -- John Work, Michel Laframboise, and the Hudson's Bay Company Brigade (1833) -- Kashaya versions of the Hudson's Bay Company Brigade at Fort Ross (1833) -- Cyrille Pierre-Théodore Laplace's visit to Bodega Bay and Fort Ross (1839) -- Eugene Duflot de Mofras's travels on the Pacific Coast (1841) -- 16. The Russians leave Fort Ross -- A report on the economics of Fort Ross and the decision to sell (1842) -- Inventories of sale for Fort Ross, Bodega Bay, and neighboring ranchos (1841) -- Il'ya Gavrilovich Voznesenskii, Russian naturalist and ethnographer (1840-1841) -- Sandels's description of a visit to post-Russian Fort Ross (1843) -- 17. Russian rediscovery of Fort Ross -- Trip to Fort Ross by Bishop Nikilai (March 2/14, 1897) -- 18. The enduring romance of Fort Ross --^
• Excerpt from "Natalie Ivanhoff" (1902) -- 19. Story of the "Kodiak bell" at Mission San Fernando Rey -- A mysterious bell (1927) -- 20. Fort Ross in the Cold War, 1950-1951.

ISBN

• 9781597141840 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1597141844 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012018987

OCLC

• 769990289
• SCSB-12204602

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library