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Melissa Coray Peak - The Story. 1998
by Lofgren, Ben E. and Norma B. Ricketts
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- 1998
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- Pamphlet
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San Francisco, California, USA
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Sacramento CA: Sierra Chapter, Sons of Utah Pioneers, 1998. Pamphlet. 17p., illustrated with several diagrammatic sketches, two period plus one color portrait photos plus the fine color cover site photo, softbound, a pamphlet in 8.5x5.5 inch glossy white decorated wraps. Slightest edgewear, a few flecks to blank rear cover, a very good copy: sound, otherwise clean, and unmarked. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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Juanita
by Secrest, William B.
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- 1971
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San Francisco, California, USA
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SGD 27.28
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Fresno: Sage-West Publishing Company, 1971. Pamphlet. 31p. including photos, later printing, 9x6 inch photodecorated wraps. Mild crimping along the spinefold, and back cover bears thumbprints; a fine copy within, no ownerships or any marking. On the only woman lynched during the gold rush; heavily reported at the time and her name was multiple times recorded as Josefa. Anti-Hispanic prejudice… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vigilantes in gold rush San Francisco
by Senkewicz, Robert M., S. J.
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- 1985
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- Hardcover
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- 9780804712309
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Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. Hardcover. ix, 272p., illustrated from period photographs; first edition cloth boards in dust jacket. Faint edgewear to dj and a bright green seller's label disfigures the dj illustration, an else quite sound clean unmarked copy. Revisionist interpretation of the Vigilante movement, largely that "merchants saw agitation and violence against the city's powerful Irish Catholics… Read more about this item Item Price
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California's Hidden Gold: nuggets from the State's rich history [signed]
by Pryor, Alton
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- 2002
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- 9780966005370
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SGD 13.64
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Roseville: Stagecoach Pub, 2002. Paperback. 202p., index, illustrations, personal inscription signed by the author, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Item Price
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Sacramento and the Trail of '49
by Kimball, J. N.
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- 1928
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New York: Underwood Typewriter Company, 1928. Paperback. 24p, 6x9 inches, illustrated with a dozen portrait photos (contestants) and ads, good booklet in stapled green pictorial wraps. Covers bear some dust and handling-grime, text a few pencilled tic-marks. This booklet contains the copy used in the 1928 International Typewriting Championship Contest. The story contained in this booklet is reprinted with… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Gold Rush: The Letters from The Wolverine Rangers to the Marshall, Michigan, Statesman 1849-1851
by The Wolverine Rangers
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- 1974
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San Francisco, California, USA
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SGD 34.10
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Mount Pleasant: The Cumming Press, 1974. Hardcover. xii, 154p., introduction, very good first edition thus limited to 487 copies in orange cloth boards and gilt. One of several books in a series. Item Price
SGD 34.10
Benicia, The Promise of California 1846-1889. Sketches by Bernice Herger
by Woodruff, Jacqueline McCart. Sponsored by the Benicia Centennial Committee
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- 1947
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San Francisco, California, USA
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[Berkeley]: printed in Vallejo for the author, 1947. 84p., perfunctory sketch illustrations, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps. Mild fading and handling, a very good copy. Odd note, either the cover illustration screws up Calif's outline, or the SF Bay inlet really does enter from state's Nevada side. Item Price
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A year of mud and gold: San Francisco in letters and diaries, 1849 - 1850
by Benemann, William, editor
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- 1999
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- 9780803212930
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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Hardcover. xxiii, 241p., preface, introduction, street map of San Francisco in 1850, notes, bibliography, index, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Personal inscription signed by the editor. Item Price
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California Gold Rush Merchant: The Journal of Stephen Chapin Davis
by Richards, Benjamin B. (ed.)
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- 1956
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San Marino: Huntington Library, 1956. Hardcover. xvii+124p., boards in publisher's acetate dj, near fine. Item Price
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Mark Twain and the jumping frog of Calaveras County; how Mark Twain's humorous frog story launched his legendary writing career
by Williams, George J., III
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- 2000
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- 9780935174458
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Carson City: Tree by the River Publishing, 2000. Paperback. 104p., illustrated with a number of b&w period photos and a line map, very good first edition trade paperback in decorated wraps. Signed by the author. Item Price
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Columbia 'gem of the southern mines' [cover title "Historic buildings of Columbia..."]
by Weston, Otheta
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- 1966
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Sonora: The Mother Lode Press, 1966. unpaginated 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrated with vintage photos of historic buildings, very good in original stapled pictorial wraps. Item Price
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Volcano, California; most picturesque of the mother lode towns [subtitle from cover]
by Crosley, Mary Edith
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- 1957
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no place: Self-published by the author, 1957. 30p., 5.5x8.5 inches, archival photos throughout moderately well reproduced, very good booklet in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. Researched in all the right places. This may have been Crosley's first book; next year, 1958, she published another [on Coloma], and in 1959 one on Hornitos. By 1959 she is "Crosley Books" out of… Read more about this item Item Price
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