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By the Golden Gate; Or, San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pacific CoastBy the Golden Gate; Or, San Francisco, the Queen City of the Pacific Coast - With Scenes and Incidents Characteristic of its LifeThis work now offered to the public owes its origin largely to the following circumstance: On the return of the author from...
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The First White Man of the WestThe First White Man of the West - Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky;Our eastern brethren have entered heartily into the pious duty of bringing to remembrance the character and deeds of their forefathers. Shall we of the...
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The Beginnings of New EnglandThe Beginnings of New England - Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty This book contains the substance of the lectures originally given at the Washington University, St. Louis, in May, 1887, in the course of my annual visit...
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The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El DoradoThe Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El DoradoThe dominant people of California have been successively aborigines, conquistadores, monks, the dreamy, romantic, unenergetic peoples of Spain, the roaring mlange of Forty-nine, and finally the modern citizens, who are so distinctive that they...
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An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) I am about to take the back-trail through the Old Westthe West that I knew and loved. All my life it has been a pleasure to show its beauties, its marvels and its possibilities to...
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Us and the Bottle ManUs and the Bottle ManIt began with Jerrys finishing off all the olives that were left, like a pig would do, as Greg said. His finishing the olives left us the bottle, of course, and there is only one natural thing to do with...
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California Sketches, New SeriesCalifornia Sketches, New SeriesThe bearded men in rude attire, With nerves of steel and hearts of fire, The women few but fair and sweet, Like shadowy visions dim and fleet, Again I see, again I hear, As down the past I dimly peer, And...
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The Adventures of a Forty-ninerThe Adventures of a Forty-niner - An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early DaysThe discovery of gold in California, in 1848, with its other mineral resources, including the Alamada quicksilver mine at San...
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839The following diary was kept in the winter and spring of 1838-9, on an estate consisting of rice and cotton plantations, in the islands at the entrance of the Altamaha, on the coast of Georgia. The...
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Byways Around San Francisco BayByways Around San Francisco BayCalifornia, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure life-giving air, invites the lover of nature to take long tramps over hill and dale, mountain...
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Thirty Years in the ItinerancyThirty Years in the ItinerancyThe following pages were prepared in the midst of the taxing labors of the Ministerial calling. The materials have been drawn from a multitude of sources, and, though the recollections of individuals have not been entirely harmonious in all cases,...
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Pink and White TyrannyPink and White Tyranny - A Society NovelMY Dear Reader,This story is not to be a novel, as the world understands the word; and we tell you so beforehand, lest you be in ill-humor by not finding what you expected. For if you have...
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The Grand Cañon of the ColoradoThe Grand Cañon of the Colorado Happy nowadays is the tourist, with earths wonders, new and old, spread invitingly open before him, and a host of able workers as his slaves making everything easy, padding plush about him, grading roads for him, boring tunnels,...
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Death Valley in '49Death Valley in '49 - Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women...
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Tales of lonely trailsTales of lonely trailsThe Author and his Men. From Left to Right: Edd Haught; Nielsen; Haught, the Bear Hunter; Al Doyle, Pioneer Arizona Guide; Lewis Pyle; Z.G.; George Haught; Ben Copple; Lee Doyle. John Wetherill, one of the famous Wetherill brothers and trader at...
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Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the NorthwestWau-Bun: The Early Day in the NorthwestEvery work partaking of the nature of an autobiography is supposed to demand an apology to the public. To refuse such a tribute, would be to recognize the justice of the charge, so often brought against our countrymenof...
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Minnesota; Its Character and ClimateMinnesota; Its Character and Climate - Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together with Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.By general consent Minnesota has enjoyed a superior reputation for climate, soil, and scenery beyond that of any other...
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Virginia: the Old DominionVirginia: the Old Dominion - As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present...
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Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels VermontMarco Paul's Voyages and Travels; VermontThe design of the series of volumes, entitled Marco Paul's Adventures in the Pursuit of Knowledge, is not merely to entertain the reader with a narrative of juvenile adventures, but also to communicate, in connection with them, as extensive...
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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843Summer on the Lakes, in 1843Since you are to share with me such foot-notes as may be made on the pages of my life during this summer's wanderings, I should not be quite silent as to this magnificent prologue to the, as yet, unknown...
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