Category: California

Trinity County Historic Sites

By: Alice Goen Jones

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Trinity County Historical Society : 1998

Seller ID: chca6001

ISBN-13: 9780960705443

Binding: Hardcover w/dust jacket

Condition: New

Historic sites in Trinity County as well as information on early settlers and gold miners.
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Pioneer Notes from the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875

By: Benjamin Hayes, Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott : 1929

Seller ID: fhh2218

Binding: Hard cover

Judge Hayes emigrated from Missouri to Los Angeles in1850. He was an attorney and law professional in Los Angeles and San Diego until his death in 1877.

Index. 307 p. &
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San Francisco Then & Now

By: Bill Yenne

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Thunder Bay Press : 2002

Seller ID: cr2202

ISBN-13: 9781571451569

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: New

The natives call it simply "the City." This is the story of the changing face of San Francisco, and how it has become one of the most picturesque cities in the world. Seventy modern color photographs are compared side-by-side with seventy archival photographs from the 1850s to the 1950s. While focusing on famous vistas and familiar landmarks, it also explores well-known neighborhoods.

Index. 144 p. &
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Orange County Pioneers: Oral Histories from the Works Progress Administration

By: Charles Epting

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: mcr51

ISBN-13: 9781626197589

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Orange County's pioneer history is filled with harrowing tales every bit as entertaining as a western novel. These stories, culled from oral histories recorded by old-timers in the 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administration, offer a rarely seen look into Orange County's frontier days. From bear hunts and bullfights to social gatherings at the home of the most famous Shakespearean actress of the day, these tales are a window into the earliest days of every corner of the county. Join editor Charles Epting for these wonderfully evocative portraits of the past recounted in the words of the...
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Declarations of Intention
For Naturalization
Santa Clara County, California

By: Christine Rose, C.G., F.A.S.G

Price: $17.50

Seller ID: cr2020

ISBN-13: 9780929626031

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Abstracted information from Declarations of Intention for Naturalization, taken from declarations at the Santa Clara county, California Courthouse from Vol. A (1850-1862), Vol. B (1862-1867) and Vol. E (1848-1870). Information varies but usually includes name, page reference, age, renouncing allegiance to which country, date, sometimes arrival date and various other information. 76 pages, full name index.

Names include: Blumenthal, Estabrook, Gocco, Jorquera, Osselin, Yaell
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Eagles and Empire: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for a Continent

By: David A. Clary

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: mcr2077

ISBN-13: 9780553806526

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good, ARC

The time is the 1840s. The enemy is Mexico. And the war is one of the least known and most important in both Mexican and United States history—a war that really began much earlier and whose consequences still echo today. Acclaimed historian David A. Clary presents this epic struggle for a continent for the first time from both sides, using original Mexican and North American sources.To Mexico, the yanqui illegals pouring into her territories of Texas and California threatened Mexican sovereignty and security. To North Americans, they manifested their destiny to rule the continent. Two nations,...
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Reflections on elegance: Pasadena's Huntington Hotel since 1906

By: Donald M. Decker , Mary L. Decker

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Royal Literary Publications : 1985

Seller ID: ca2201

ISBN-13: 9780918329011

Binding: Soft cover

The resort reflected the elegance of early twentieth century hostelries. The stories behind the special features are based on resources previously unpublished and unavailable to the public.
Signed by both authors on verso of front cover.

62 p. &
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Frontier Reminiscences of Eveline Brooks Auerbach

By: Eveline Brooks Auerbach

Price: $50.00

Publisher: : 1994

Seller ID: mcr1832

Binding: Paperback

Condition: good - normal wear and tear, some staining on page bottoms

Western history and Americana. The true story of a pioneer in the Western U.S. The 1994 edition issued by The Bancroft Library, University of California, in an edition of 1600 copies designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem, San Francisco. 133 pages.
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View From the Saddle: Characters Who Crossed My Trail

By: Frank M. Bogert

Price: $60.00

Seller ID: mcca2002

ISBN-13: 9780882801582

Binding: Library

Condition: New

A biography about Frank M. Bogert, "The Palm Springs Cowboy Mayor"; includes some history of the Coachella Valley, and the people the Bogert encountered. 232 pages.
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North Bay Journal and Visits to Gold Rush San Francisco: Excerpts From Mountains and Molehills or Recollections of a Burnt Journal

By: Frank Marryat

Price: $21.00

Seller ID: mcca2000

ISBN-13: 9780960131228

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

In these selections from Marryat we find interspersed with stories -- witty comments which constitute a highly informal yet valuable social history. Marryat had a talent for description, which is evident by the many recollections of his adventures detailed in the pages of this book. Perhaps his most important observation was the chronicling of a unique ephemeral experience, the rapid settlement of the land. In a matter of months the encroaching Americans moved into Marryat's wilderness paradise. Thus the adventurer ultimately left his life -- a story of the chance he took to live about three y...
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The settlement of California

By: George William Sanderlin

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan : 1972

Seller ID: ca2100

ISBN-13: 9780698201903

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Used

Uses firsthand accounts of explorers, missionaries, adventurers, and settlers to present the events of the settlement of California.

Index. 223 p. &
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To Utah With the Dragoons: And Glimpses of Life in Arizona and California 1858-1859

By: Harold D. Langley

Price: $35.00

Publisher: : 1974

Seller ID: mcvt1802

ISBN-13: 9780874800876

Binding: Library

Condition: Used, Good

To Utah With The Dragoons is a collection of articles written by a soldier who was part of the army dispatched to Utah to quell the "Mormon Uprising." The articles were published in the Philadelphia Harold under the pen name "Utah." The first hand account is something of an 1800's version of embedded reporting. The soldier, who has some background in journalism, does a good job of giving the whole picture to many of the events, and describing in detail the flora, fauna, and his impressions of the geography, and people he encountered along his way. 230 pages, full name index.Names include: Call...
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Mountain View Cemetery Barstow, California

By: Hi-Desert Genealogical Society

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hi-Desert Genealogical Society : 1998

Seller ID: cab2300

Binding: Soft cover

The records were photocopied from the original cemetery records and then compiled by volunteers.

Index. 56 p. &
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Texas Crossings: The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836-1986

By: Howard R. Lamar

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: mc9138

ISBN-13: 9780292781153

Binding: Library

Condition: Good

"Texas is not a place, it is a commotion!" exclaimed one early visitor to the state, underscoring the mobility and "get-ahead" spirit that have always characterized Texas and its people. In these thought-provoking essays, Howard R. Lamar looks specifically at the "crossings" that have characterized Texas history to see what effect these migrations to and through Texas have had on Texas, the Southwest, and links between Texas and California.Originally presented in 1986 at the University of Texas at Austin as the first George W. Littlefield Lectures in American History, these essays explore a pr...
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Games of the XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles 1984 Commemorative Book

By: International Sport Publications, Inc.

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: mc2020

ISBN-13: 9780913927021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

A pictorial history of the 1984 Olympics, held in Los Angeles, CA. 287 pages.
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A Companion to California

By: James D. Hart

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: mcca1900

ISBN-13: 9780195024005

Binding: Library

Condition: Good

This work is intended as a useful companion for anybody interested in general or basic knowledge about any aspect of the most populous state in the Union. It is designed to be serviceable to a wide variety of readers and consultants, whose range might include residents and tourists, high-school and college students, as well as scholars seeking a ready reference. At present no single volume comprehends such a scope as this one and although it treats its subjects briefly, many an entry also includes data not found elsewhere in a single place. Reference to hundreds of books and articles would be ...
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The Historical Guide to the Back Country
A Travel Companion for the Mountains of Eastern San Diego County

By: Jean Taylor, Meredith Vezina, Bobbie Booth, Don Taylor, Charlene Wright, Charlotte Holcomb, and Beryl Newman

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: mcca1901

Binding: Staplebound, paperback, pamphlet

Condition: Fair

One of the great things about living in San Diego is taking a serendipitous trip to the Back Country. This guide is designed to take such adventure-seekers around a loop starting on Highway 94 at Jamacha Junction and returning west on Old 80. It gives some historical information about areas and communities along the way, with tips on some things to see off the main roads.This guide, compiled from research material available to the Mountain Empire Historical Society, is not the last word on the Back Country. However, it will get those who love to go driving in search of rural beauty started on ...
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Fifty fabulous years, 1945-1995: A pictorial history of the city of Santa Maria and Santa Maria Valley, California

By: Jim May

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Henington Publishing Company : 1997

Seller ID: chcasm2100

ISBN-13: 9780881072686

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: New

Presents pictorial looks at some of the major activities and changes that have occurred from the end of World War II up to the present day.
Indexed. 144 p. *
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The Gunfighters

By: Lea F. McCarty

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: sa1711

ISBN-13: 9780940188037

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

"Every man has a place to fill in the making of America. The Gunfighter has been no exception." This compilation covers some of the best known gunfighters in Old West American history, as well as some that are lesser known. Full color illustrations of paintings done by the author accompany each Gunfighter covered in the book. 48 pages.
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California Family Newmark, An Intimate Story

By: Leo Newmark, M.D.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA, Publisher of Western Americana : 1970

Seller ID: fhn2100

Binding: hard cover

Condition: new

A story of Dr. Newmark and his family history. Leo Newmark, M.D. (1861-1943). This reading brought to us the realization of the importance of Leo Newmark's work, not only for the portrait of an early and important California family which it provides, but because it enables us to compare that family with similar families of the same ethnic background now, over one hundred years later. 110 pages. @
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John Kendig Barr - His Ancestors and His Descendants

By: Mary Alice Burchfield

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: fhb2008

Binding: soft cover

Condition: new

JOHN KENDIG BARR HIS ANCESTORS AND HIS DESCENDANTS by Mary Alice Burchfield, Soft cover, 142 pages, c1984. John Barr (d.1767) is possibly the Hans Bar who arrived in Philadelphia in 1739, married Elizabeth Stehman and lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. John Kendig Barr (1828-1918), a grandson, married Hettie Ann Cassel (Kassel?) in 1856 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and moved about 1885 to Lincoln, Nebraska. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, California and elsewhere. Related lines are: Anderson * Barr * Burchfield * Clapp * Hargrove * Jessup * Musse...
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Births, Deaths, and Marriages on California's Mendocino Coast Volume Six 1950-1959

By: Mendocino Coast Geological Society

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: mccam1800

ISBN-13: 9780788412899

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used library

This volume, the sixth in a series, chronicles the births, deaths, and marriages from 1950 through 1959 in one of California's more remote and beautiful counties. 428 pages, full name index. Names include: Andreis, Ellingwood, Giacomini, Iversen, Pelascini, Trigeiro
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Wells Fargo: An Illustrated History

By: Noel M. Loomis

Price: $22.00

Seller ID: mctxr1801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

This is the story of Wells Fargo and of the people who created it and developed the four-billon-dollar bank that exists today. A detailed and incisive history with over 300 illustrations, this book captures the flavor of the West and the excitement of one of the great institutions of past and present America. 344 pages, indexed. Names include: Brigham, Flood, Heller, Mason, Strauss, Willis
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Via Western Express & Stagecoach

By: Oscar Osburn Winther

Price: $45.00

Seller ID: mc1807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used, Good

This is the story of Stagecoach and express transportation in California before the "Iron Horse" came puffing across the Sierra Nevada. Also, it is the history of travel during a time when hordes of people from all parts of the globe rushed to California in search of fortune and fame, a time when the West was bumptious, raucous, and wild. 157 pages, indexed. Names include: Bassett, Egan, Harlow, Kearny, Parkhurst, Wells,
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Cherokee Trail Diaries: 1849 A New Route to the California Gold Fields & 1850 Another New Route to the California Gold Fields & 1851-1900 Cherokee Trail Diaries. Three volumes in Two.

By: Patricia K. A. Fletcher, Jack E Fletcher, Lee Whiteley

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Fletcher Family Foundation : 1999

Seller ID: ref2207

ISBN-13: 9780967051819

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Used ex-library with usual markings.

These volumes document, through diaries, two wagon trails from Arkansas, Cherokee Nation and Missouri to the main California Trail near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. Continuing to California, the Cherokee/White companies travel the Hastings Cutoff, the first documented wagon companies after the 1846 Reed/Donner Party.Additional diaries and accounts of Oregon, California and Utah emigration, Mormon missionaries and converts; continued cattle drives from Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and the Cherokee Nation have prolonged the trails' use, and prompted the writing of this series. Includes many maps of the ...
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Gunplay at Convict Lake

By: Richard Delaney

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: mcnv2000

ISBN-13: 9789706798336

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

This is the saga of the historical 1871 Nevada State Prison Break as six of the twenty-nine escapees fled south. After killing a Mail Rider near Sweetwater, Nevada, they travelled on into California's Eastern Sierra Nevada where their atrocities continued. Hearing of their deeds, a posse from Benton Hot Springs followed the six desperadoes to beautiful Monte Diablo Lake above Long Valley. A murderous gun battle took place September 23, 1871. Not long after the shootout, local Mono and Inyo County residents renamed the site where Robert Morrison and Mono Jim were killed - Convict Lake. 73 pa...
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Juan Alvarado Governor of California 1836-1842

By: Robert Ryan Miller

Price: $30.00

Publisher: : 1998

Seller ID: mcca2001

ISBN-13: 9780806130774

Condition: As New

216 pages including index. Free shipping media mail. This study of Alvarado's life illuminates much of California's history during the Mexican period and the transition to American rule.
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The Batson and Dixon Family History

By: Robert William Batson

Price: $90.00

Publisher: RonJon Publishing : 2004

Seller ID: fhb2206

ISBN-13: 9781568705569

Binding: Soft cover

Covers his family from its beginnings in 1622 with the arrival of John Chew. Follows his father from the Texas Panhandle to San Pedro, California. The author was inducted in the US Army in 1942 and he shares his experiences in Europe. His career with Kroger Food Stores ends with his retirement to Gainsville, Cooke County, Texas.

486 p. &
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A Pioneer Heritage

By: Sam T. Clover

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Saturday Night Publishing Company : 1923

Seller ID: ca2203

Binding: Hard cover

Biography of two promiment settlers and developers, Major Henry Hancock and Hungarian Count Agostin Haraszthy, of Santa Maria County, California.

291 p. &
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NGS Research In The States Series California

By: Sheila Benedict

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Arlington, Virginia, National Genealogical Society : 2015

Seller ID: ngs1500CA

ISBN-13: 9781935815167

Condition: new

Research in California. @
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Category: California