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Yanks in the Redwoods : carving out a life in Northern California

Title
Yanks in the Redwoods : carving out a life in Northern California / Frank H. Baumgardner, III.
Author
Baumgardner, Frank H.
Publication
New York : Algora Pub., ©2010.

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Description
237 pages : maps; 23 cm
Summary
Annotation
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Frontier and pioneer life > California, Northern
  • Land settlement > California, Northern > History > 19th century
  • Discoveries in geography
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Land settlement
  • California, Northern > Discovery and exploration
  • California, Northern > History > 19th century
  • Northern California
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230) and index.
Contents
Lewis and Clark follow the Columbia River to the Pacific, with help from the Clatsop nation -- John Work's expedition to the north Mendocino coast, from Bodega Bay to the Mattole River -- Jesse Applegate's journey on the Oregon Trail, the Osage River to the Willamette Valley, 1843 -- North coast explorer/settlers find gold! George Gibbs, Oregon territory's first customs collector, 1850 -- The impact of anglo-saxons on early northern California shipwreck of a brig, the Frolic, July 25, 1850 -- Commissioner Redick McKee explores northwestern California, August to December 1851 -- The first mills on the north Mendocino coast -- Oregon bound: 1853 -- Founding of the Mendocino reservation and Fort Bragg, Lt. Horatio T. Gibson, U.S. Army -- The investigation of California superintendent of Indian affairs Thomas J. Henley -- Mendocino coast settlement takes hold -- "Doghole" schooners link the Mendocino coast to the world, Fort Bragg becomes a city -- Etta and Wilder Pullen, Little River -- Out of the past: a survivor's story.
ISBN
  • 9780875868011
  • 0875868010
  • 9780875868028
  • 0875868029
  • 9780875863641
  • 0875863647
  • 9780875863658
  • 0875863655
  • 9780875868035 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0875868037 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2010034381
OCLC
  • ocn659412920
  • 659412920
  • SCSB-13563959
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library