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Author
Series
Materials for the study of Alaskan history volume no. 4
Publisher
Limestone
Pub. Date
c1973
Physical Desc
x, 376 p. : ill.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Westernlore Press
Pub. Date
c1943
Physical Desc
xi, 263 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Samuel Brannan (1819-1889), who led a shipload of Mormon pioneers from New York around the tip of South America to Yerba Buena (later San Francisco), California in 1847. Brannan and some of the other pioneers met some of the Mormon Battalion, and were there when gold was discovered at Sutter's Fort. Some of these and other Mormons were early colonists in California, and this biography serves serves to emphasize the "... full impact of...
Author
Publisher
Heritage West Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xvi, 208 p. : ill., maps, ports.
Language
English
Description
This is a systematic compilation of places within California that have been of importance to the Chinese. The book offers over 1150 entries, including Chinatowns, cemeteries, temples, and organizations, to list just a few categories. It includes vignettes on feng shui, street naming, the National Register of Historic Places and more.
Author
Series
Western Jewish American volume no. 1
Publisher
Western Jewish History Center. Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum
Pub. Date
c1968
Physical Desc
x, 54 p. : map.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Spanish Colonial Research Center at the University of New Mexico
Pub. Date
1995]
Physical Desc
[71-93] p. : facsims., geneal. tables
Language
English
Formats
Description
Juan Bautista de Anza was the first European to establish an overland route from Mexico, through the Sonoran Desert, to the Pacific coast of California. He was born in Mexico in 1736, joined the army in 1752 and served on the Northern frontier of Sonora. In 1774, he led a small expedition from the presidio in Tubac (now part of Arizona) to the mission in Monterey, California. In 1775, he led a second expedition to establish the mission and presidio...
Author
Publisher
Resource Development and Publications, Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angelos and The Okinawa Club of America
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
xxii, 608 p. : ill., ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book is an English language version of Okinawan history spanning over ninety years of pioneer struggles"--Foreword to the English ed.
Publisher
Free Evangelical Lutheran Cross Church of Fresno, California
Pub. Date
1962
Physical Desc
170 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm.
Language
Multiple
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Description
Traces history of church from early period of German colonies in Russia through emigration to California; includes biographical information on original emigrants and pastors of Church; includes short descriptions of other churches in area.
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