Up and down California In 1860-1864 The Journal of William H. Brewer

Name: Up and down California In 1860-1864 The Journal of William H. Brewer
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ISBN: 9780520238657

ISBN-10: 0520238656

ISBN-13: 9780520238657

Edition: 4th 2003 (Revised)

Authors: William H. Brewer, Francis P. Farquhar, William Bright

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In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the state of California. Brewer was not a geologist, but his training in agriculture and botany made him an invaluable member of the team. He traveled more than fourteen thousand miles in the four years he spent in California and spent much of his leisure time writing lively, detailed letters to his brother back East. These warmly affectionate letters, presented here in their entirety, describe the new state in all its spectacular beauty and paint a vivid picture of California in the mid-nineteenth…

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List price: $34.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 628
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Foreword


Maps


Itinerary


Preface to the Third Edition


Introduction



1860-1861



To California via Panama



Los Angeles and Environs



More of Southern California



Starting Northward



Santa Barbara



The Coast Road



Salinas Valley and Monterey



1861



An Interlude



New Idria



New Almaden



Approaching the Bay



The Mount Diablo Range



Napa Valley and the Geysers



1862



The Rainy Season



Tamalpais and Diablo



The Diablo Range South



Up the Sacramento River



Mount Shasta



West and East of the Sacramento



Closing the Year - A Miscellany



1863



In and About San Francisco



Tejon - Tehachapi - Walker's Pass



The Big Trees - Yosemite - Tuolumne Meadows



Mono Lake - Aurora - Sonora Pass



To Carson Pass and Lake Tahoe



The Northern Mines and Lassen's Peak



Siskiyou



Crescent City and San Francisco



1864



San Joaquin Valley - Giant Sequoias



The High Sierra of Kings River



Owens Valley and the San Joaquin Sierra



The Washoe Mines



Homeward Bound - Nicaragua


Index