| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | A pioneer of 1850: George Willis Read, 1819-1880; the record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850, with a letter from the diggings in October of the same year and an account of a journey from New York to California, via Panama, in 1862, capture by the Confederate raider Alabama, etc., and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863
| | | | Creator: | Read, George Willis, 1819-1880 | | | | | Read, Georgia Willis | | | | Publication: | Little, Brown, and company, Boston,1927. | | | | Notes: | Bibliography: p. [161]-172. | | | | Call #: | F42J R282 | | | | Extent: | xxvi, 185 p. front. (port.) plates, fold. map. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Overland journeys to the Pacific | Voyages to the Pacific coast | California -- Gold discoveries
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Records of a California family: journals and letters of Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn
| | | | Creator: | Gunn, Lewis C. (Lewis Carstairs), 1813-1892 | | | | | Gunn, Elizabeth Le Breton, 1811-1906 | | | | | Marston, Anna Lee, 1853-1940 | | | | Publication: | A.L. Marston], San Diego, Calif,1928. | | | | Notes: | "Three hundred copies of this book were printed for Anna Lee Marston by Johnck and Seeger in San Francisco..."--Colophon. | | | | Call #: | Gunn family | | | | Extent: | 279 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Gunn Family | Voyages to the Pacific coast | California -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Eldorado: or, Adventures in the path of empire, comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel
| | | | Creator: | Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878 | | | | Publication: | G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York,1850. | | | | Notes: | LA1608-213 James A. Garfield bookplate "Lucretia R. Garfield Oct. 1884." Location: 213.28 bottom shelf. Added t.-p., engraved, with vignette. | | | | Call #: | LA1608-213 | | | | Extent: | xiv, 444 p. : front. ; 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Voyages to the Pacific coast | California -- Gold discoveries | California -- Description and travel | Mexico -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 8 | Title: | California gold rush: diary of Charles H. Harvey, February 12-November 12, 1852
| | | | Creator: | Harvey, Charles H., 1825-1864 | | | | | Ball, Edmund F. | | | | | Clanin, Douglas E. | | | | | Indiana Historical Society | | | | Publication: | Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis,1983. | | | | Notes: | On spine: Diary of Charles H. Harvey. Includes bibliographies. | | | | Call #: | F65J H341 1983 | | | | Extent: | xxii, 136 p. : ill. ; 18 x 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Harvey, Charles H., -- 1825-1864 | Voyages to the Pacific coast | California -- Description and travel | California -- Gold discoveries
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 9 | Title: | Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814: or, The first American settlement of the Pacific
| | | | Creator: | Francháere, Gabriel, 1786-1863 | | | | | Huntington, J. V. (Jedediah Vincent), 1815-1862 | | | | Publication: | Redfield, New York,1854. | | | | Notes: | Original French edition published 1820. | | | | Call #: | F66D F816 | | | | Extent: | 376 p. front., plates. 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Fur trade -- Oregon | Voyages to the Pacific coast | Oregon -- History -- To 1859 | Astoria (Or.) | Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | Los gringos: or, An inside view of Mexico and California, with wanderings in Peru, Chile, and Polynesia
| | | | Creator: | Wise, Henry Augustus, 1819-1869 | | | | Publication: | Baker and Scribner, 145 Nassau Street and 36 Park Row, New York,1849. | | | | Notes: | Mormon content: p. 70, 73. | | | | Call #: | F1213 W811 1849 | | | | Extent: | xvi, 453 p. ; 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Voyages to the Pacific coast | Mexico -- Description and travel | California -- Description and travel | Polynesia
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 12 | Title: | Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky mountains
| | | | Creator: | Parker, Samuel, 1779-1866 | | | | | American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions | | | | Publication: | J.C. Derby & Co, M.H. Newman & Co.; [etc., etc.], Auburn [N.Y.], New York,1846, c1838. | | | | Notes: | Includes one chapter on the Hawaiian islands. "Vocabulary of Indian languages" (Nez Percâe, Klikitat, Calapooya, Chinook): p. [407]-422. | | | | Call #: | F66J P243J4 | | | | Extent: | xvi, [17]-422 p. incl. pl. front. (fold. map) 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Overland journeys to the Pacific | Indians of North America -- Oregon | Voyages to the Pacific coast | Hawaii -- Description and travel | Oregon -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 13 | Title: | California and Oregon: or, Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way
| | | | Creator: | Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor), b. 1818 | | | | | Thurston, Samuel Royal, 1816-1851 | | | | Publication: | Lippincott, Grambo & Co., successors to Grigg, Elliot & Co, Philadelphia,1851. | | | | Notes: | Cf. Sabin 36329. First edition, New York, 1849, published under title: Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way. | | | | Call #: | B 8065 | | | | Extent: | xii, 348 p. fold. map, 6 plates. 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Voyages to the Pacific coast | California -- Gold discoveries | California -- Description and travel | Panama -- Description and travel | Oregon -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 14 | Title: | Diary of Howard Stillwell Stanfield: overland trip from Indiana to California, 1864: via Virginia City, Montana territory, and sea voyage from San Francisco to New York, 1865, via Panama
| | | | Creator: | Stanfield, Howard Stillwell, 1846-1923 | | | | | Detzler, Jack J. | | | | | Indiana University Indiana University publications. | | | | Publication: | Indiana University Press, Bloomington,1969. | | | | Notes: | Bibliography: p. 166-173. | | | | Call #: | F42HA S785 | | | | Extent: | viii, 232 p. illus., maps, ports. 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Stanfield, Howard Stillwell, -- 1846-1923 -- Diaries | Overland journeys to the Pacific | Voyages to the Pacific coast | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 15 | Title: | History of California: from its discovery to the present time ; comprising also a full description of its climate, surface, soil, rivers, towns, beasts, birds, fishes, state of its society, agriculture, commerce, mines, mining, &c., with a journal of the voyage from New York, via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and back, via Panama with a new map of the country
| | | | Creator: | Capron, E. S. (Elisha Smith), 1806-1883? | | | | Publication: | J.P. Jewett & Company, Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, Boston, Cleveland, O,1854. | | | | Call #: | F65D C254 | | | | Extent: | xi, 356 p., [1] p. of plates : col. fold. map ; 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Gold mines and mining -- California | Voyages to the Pacific coast | California -- History | California -- Description and travel | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description | Cleveland imprints 1854
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 16 | Title: | Deck and port: or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California ; with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco
| | | | Creator: | Colton, Walter, 1797-1851 | | | | Publication: | A.S. Barnes & Co, H.W. Derby & Co, New York, Cincinnati,1850. | | | | Call #: | F2223 C725 | | | | Extent: | 408 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Congress (Frigate) | Voyages to the Pacific coast | South America -- Description and travel | Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Description | California -- Description and travel | Ohio imprints 1850
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