Subject • | Voyages to the Pacific coast |
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| • | Mexico -- Description and travel |
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| • | Hawaii -- Description and travel |
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| • | Oregon -- Description and travel |
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| • | Panama -- Description and travel |
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| • | Polynesia |
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| • | Astoria (Or.) |
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| • | Bowler, Anne Scarr. |
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| • | Brown family. |
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| • | Brown, John Weld, b. 1828. |
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| • | California |
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| • | California -- Description and travel -- 19th century. |
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| • | California -- Description and travel. |
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| • | California -- History |
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| • | California -- Social life and customs |
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| • | Central Pacific Railroad Company. |
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| • | Cleveland imprints 1854 |
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| • | Congress (Frigate) |
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| • | Eureka (Barque) |
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| • | Farmers -- California -- Correspondence. |
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| • | Frontier and pioneer life -- California. |
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| • | Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada. |
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| • | Fur trade -- Oregon |
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| • | Gold miners -- California -- Correspondence. |
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| • | Gold mines and mining -- California |
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| • | Gunn Family |
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| • | Harvey, Charles H., -- 1825-1864 |
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| • | Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Description |
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| • | Indians of North America -- Oregon |
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| • | Nevada -- Description and travel. |
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| • | Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel |
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| • | Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 |
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| • | Ohio imprints 1850 |
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| • | Oregon |
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| • | Oregon -- History -- To 1859 |
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| • | San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description |
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| • | Schaaf, Lewis, 1846-1889. |
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| • | Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nevada) |
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| • | South America -- Description and travel |
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| • | Stanfield, Howard Stillwell, -- 1846-1923 -- Diaries |
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| • | Travelers -- United States -- Correspondence. |
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| • | Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. |
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| • | Union Pacific Railroad Company. |
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| • | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel |
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| • | West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 |
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| Book | Requires cookie* | 3 | 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* | 4 | 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* | 5 | 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* | 10 | 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* | 11 | 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* | 12 | 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* | 13 | 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* | 14 | 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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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 16 | Title: | John Weld Brown Letters
| | | Creator: | Brown, John Weld | | | Dates: | 1851-1866 | | | Abstract: | John Weld Brown (b. 1828) was a farmer, trader, and gold miner in and around Nevada City, Marysville, and Yuba City, California. The collection consists of letters from Brown to relatives in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and in Rhode Island, relating to his journey from Cleveland, Ohio, to Nevada City, California, 1851-1852, and his subsequent activities, and touching upon the hardships of the trip by boat to the West, the economic situation in California, and personal and family matters. | | | Call #: | MS 0350 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Brown family. | Brown, John Weld, b. 1828. | Travelers -- United States -- Correspondence. | Voyages to the Pacific coast. | Farmers -- California -- Correspondence. | Gold miners -- California -- Correspondence. | California -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
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Book | Requires cookie* | 17 | 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* | 18 | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 19 | 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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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 20 | Title: | Lewis Schaaf Diary
| | | Creator: | Schaaf, Lewis | | | Dates: | 1868-1872 | | | Abstract: | Lewis Schaaf was a Brooklyn, Ohio, native who traveled to California and Nevada in 1868, working as a teamster and logcutter in the Sierra Nevada mountains before becoming disenchanted with life on the frontier and returning to Ohio three years later. The collection consists of an electrostatic copy of a diary chronicling Schaaf's experiences on the far Western frontier. The diary details Schaaf's journey west by ship via Panama and his life in a lumber camp in the Sierra Nevadas, describing the social life on the frontier, including his involvement in the local Odd Fellows lodge, the celebration at the completion of the transcontinental railroad, as well as train robberies and community destruction from fires. Included are everyday details of pioneering life such as recipes for tobacco substitutes and ways to clear mosquitoes from a room. | | | Call #: | MS 4417 | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Schaaf, Lewis, 1846-1889. | Union Pacific Railroad Company. | Central Pacific Railroad Company. | Frontier and pioneer life -- California. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada. | Voyages to the Pacific coast. | California -- Description and travel. | Nevada -- Description and travel. | Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nevada)
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