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Author : Benjamin E. Lloyd
language : en
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Release Date : 1876
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Author : Benjamin E. Lloyd
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-01-08
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Lights And Shades Of San Francisco
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Author : Benjamin E. Lloyd
language : en
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Release Date : 1875
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Author : B. E. (Benjamin E. ). Lloyd
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-08-23
Lights And Shades In San Francisco written by B. E. (Benjamin E. ). Lloyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-23 with History categories.
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Author : Benjamin E. Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-06-11
Lights And Shades In San Francisco written by Benjamin E. Lloyd and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-11 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Lights And Shades In San Francisco Classic Reprint
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Author : Benjamin E. Lloyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-06-22
Lights And Shades In San Francisco Classic Reprint written by Benjamin E. Lloyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-22 with Reference categories.
Excerpt from Lights and Shades in San Francisco From 1779 to 1830 San Francisco enjoyed an undisturbed repose; a sort of Sleepy Hollow drowsiness reigned supreme over all its inhabitants, the dull monotony of which was only disturbed by an occasional Visit from exploring or trading ves sels, drifting, as it were, almost by accident up the channel, through the Golden Gate. Among these vessels were the American ships Alexander and Aser, which entered the harbor on the lst of August, 1803. In 1807 the Russians made their appearance. That there was little of the spirit of progression and enter prise among the population is very evident. In 1834, more than fifty years after its founding, San Francisco, or the Mis sion Dolores, had only a population of five hundred Indians. Their possessions were five thousand horned cattle, one thou sand six hundred horses and mules, four thousand sheep, goats and hogs, and two thousand five hundred bushels of grain. On July 8, 1846, the American ag was hoisted for the first time in San Francisco. From this time forward, the city may be said to have been under American rule. During this month a company of Mormons from New York, with Samuel Brann'an as leader, arrived and camped at the base of the sand-hills. Had it not been that dissensions and quarrels sprung up among them and caused their disbandment, it is highly probable that San Francisco, and not Salt Lake, would have been the seat of the earthly kingdom of these saints. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Music And Politics In San Francisco
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Author : Leta E. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012
Music And Politics In San Francisco written by Leta E. Miller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Music categories.
“Leta Miller’s long-awaited study is a tightly woven, fast-paced, and luminous chronicle of San Francisco’s musical coming of age. Her keen insights into Chinese opera, night club jazz, and two international expositions go far to rekindle the era’s spirited mix of talent, taste, patronage, and politics. The groundbreaking work of an accomplished music and social historian, Music and Politics in San Francisco is a most welcome companion to Catherine Parsons Smith’s Making Music in Los Angeles.” —Jonathan Elkus, Lecturer in Music Emeritus, UC Davis “From three disastrous days in April 1906 through the onset of an even greater disaster in 1941, from the San Francisco Conservatory through the performances of the Chinese Opera, Leta Miller traces the musico-political history of ‘the Paris of the West’ in meticulous detail. This important book adds immeasurably to our knowledge of West Coast American music, whilst simultaneously challenging a number of historiographical shibboleths.” —David Nicholls, contributing editor of The Cambridge History of American Music "Leta Miller’s San Francisco’s Musical Life is a pure pleasure to read. Miller manages that rare feat of digesting what must have been many years of digging through newspapers and archives into a fun, lively, highly readable narrative. Each chapter strikes a comfortable balance among factual exposition, colorful anecdote, and historical analysis. Miller brings equal depth and insight to each of her disparate subjects, she writes with charm and clarity throughout, and the whole is arranged in a way that is clear and logical, never monotonous." —Mary Ann Smart, author of Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera
Pioneer Urbanites
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Author : Douglas Henry Daniels
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Pioneer Urbanites written by Douglas Henry Daniels and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with History categories.
The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transportation boom following the Gold Rush; others traveled as employees of wealthy individuals. Douglas Daniels argues for the importance of going beyond the written record and urban statistics in examining the life of a minority community. He has studied photographs from family albums and interviewed members of old black San Francisco families in his effort to provide the first nuanced picture of the lives of black San Franciscans from the 1860s to the 1940s.
Americans And The California Dream 1850 1915
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Author : Kevin Starr
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1986-12-04
Americans And The California Dream 1850 1915 written by Kevin Starr and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-12-04 with Social Science categories.
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
The Infamous King Of The Comstock
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Author : Michael J. Makley
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2006-01-09
The Infamous King Of The Comstock written by Michael J. Makley and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-09 with History categories.
William Sharon was one of the most colorful scoundrels in the nineteenth-century mining West. He epitomized the robber barons of the nation’s Gilded Age and the political corruption and moral decay for which that period remains notorious; yet he was also a visionary capitalist who controlled more than a dozen of the greatest mines on Nevada’s mighty Comstock Lode, built the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, manipulated speculation and prices on the San Francisco Stock Exchange, and revived the collapsed Bank of California. One enemy called him “a thoroughly bad man—a man entirely void of principle,” while a Comstock neighbor called him “one of the best men that ever lived in Virginia City.” Both descriptions were reasonably accurate. In this first-ever biography of one of Nevada’s most reviled historical figures, author Michael Makley examines Sharon’s complex nature and the turbulent times in which he flourished. Arriving in San Francisco shortly after the Gold Rush began, Sharon was soon involved in real estate, politics, banking, and stock speculation, and he was a party in several of the era’s most shocking business and sexual scandals. When he moved to Virginia City, Nevada’s mushrooming silver boomtown, his business dealings there soon made him known as the “King of the Comstock.” Makley’s engaging and meticulously researched account not only lays bare the life of the notorious but enigmatic Sharon but examines the broader historical context of his career—the complex business relationships between San Francisco and the booming gold and silver mining camps of the Far West; the machinations of rampant Gilded Age capitalism; and the sophisticated financial and technological infrastructure that supported Virginia City’s boomtown economy. The Infamous King of the Comstock offers a significant fresh perspective on Nevada and the mining West.