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Yosemite Place Names : The Historic Background of Geographic Names in Yosemite National Park

Peter Browning

Great West Books

Contains old names, Washoe Indian names, and the diary of Charles Preuss from January and February 1844. (Frémont's second expedition to the Far West). Frémont and Preuss were the first white men to see Lake Tahoe, on February 14, 1844. With 39 photos and photos of portions of seven early maps. From the Sacramento Daily Union, June 1, 1863: It is proposed to drop the name Bigler from the lake among the Sierras and adopt the Indian name of Tahoe. Good idea. Why the finest sheet of water in the mountains should be named after a fifth rate politician we have never been able to see. Let's call it Tahoe. Fine fishing in Tahoe. Who's going on a pleasant excursion this Summer to Tahoe? Poetical name: Indian name: proper name. Who don't say Tahoe?

Tahoe Place Names: The Origin and History of Names in the Lake Tahoe Basin

Politics & Social Sciences

Lekisch, Barbara

Politics & Government

Earth has no sorrow that earth cannot heal. (John Muir) The best of John Muir: 332 quotations, the distillation of his thought, the essence of his beliefs. Muir was the foremost conservationist of his time: nature writer, social critic, realist, a romantic, a visionary. If asked for a succinct statement of his beliefs, Muir might have replied: In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Reference

MUIR, JOHN

Browning, Peter

Quotations

The Last Wilderness: 600 Miles by Canoe and Portage in the Northwest Territories

Travel

Specialty Travel

Describes the history and scenic wonders of California's Yosemite Valley.

In the Heart of the Sierras: Yo Semite Valley and the Big Tree Groves

History

Hutchings, J. M.

Americas

On July 14, 1769 the Portola Expedition started off into an unknown country. 
They were the first Europeans to explore by land what is now California. In human history it is quite a short time from the Portola Expedition to the present day-- 223 years, some eight to ten generations. Most of what Miguel Costano saw has been transformed beyond belief and beyond imagining. But from the discovery site on Sweeney Ridge you can see Point Reyes and the white cliffs of Drakes Bay to the north-north-west, and the Farallon Islands to the west. And when you turn around you will behold the full sweep of the "magnificent estuary" that is San Francisco Bay, stretching toward the southeast.

The Discovery of San Francisco Bay: The Portolá Expedition of 1769-1770 / El Descubrimiento de la Bahía de San Francisco: La Expedición de Portolá de ... Miguel Costansó (English and Spanish Edition)

Miguel Costansó

World

"The story of the California Gold Rush has never been more effectively told." (Contra Costa Times.) Everything in this book is taken from 1848 and 1849 Eastern newspapers. Articles, editorials, sermons, poetry, songs, advertisements, and letters from the multitudes who were striving toward California via the Isthmus of Panama, around Cape Horn, through the Strait of Magellan, across the plains, the Gila River route, and via Mexico and Nicaragua. Here is the California Gold Rush: upheaval, adventure, suffering, death, wonderful success, and tragic failure, the record of the great event of the age.

To the Golden Shore: America Goes to California-1849

San Francisco Bay was discovered in 1769. Eighty years later the city of San Francisco was a boom town with a population of 40,000. Here is the written and visual record of the discovery and exploration of San Francisco Bay, and the founding and settlement of Yerba Buena, which became San Francisco. Recounted by the excerpts from the journals, diaries and books of the discoverers, explorers, foreign visitors, the founder of Yerba Buena, and the contemporary and reminiscent descriptions of those who were there and witnessed the transformation of San Francisco from hamlet to metropolis: Costansó, Ayala, Font, Vancouver, Lamgsdorff, Roquefeuil, Kotzebue, Beechey, Richardson, Simpson, Kemble, and others. Includes many historic maps, charts, illustrations, and the first two surveys of the town of Yerba Buena.

San Francisco: Yerba Buena : From the Beginning to the Gold Rush 1769-1849

Containing the fate of the GET ALL YOU CAN MINING ASSOCIATION. The Gold Rush is vividly depicted in 91 cartoon panels: funny, satirical, grim, and true. With added 1849 newspaper articles. 150th anniversary edition. First published in 1849. Death and the Devil sow California with gold to lure the unwary. At the end, Death fills the cavity made by the extraction of gold with the bones of those who perished in its pursuit.

Outline History of an Expedition to California: Containing the Fate of the Get All You Can Mining Association

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In the Heart of the Sierras: Yosemite Valley and the Big Tree Groves

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