Seventy-five years in California
recollections and remarks by one who visited these shores in 1831, and again in 1833, and except when absent on business was a resident from 1838 until the end of a long life in 1909.
by William Heath Davis
William Heath Davis (1822-1909) was the son of a Boston ship captain engaged in the Hawaiian trade and a Polynesian mother. He visited California twice on trading voyages before setting up business there in 1838. In 1845 he settled permanently in San Francisco, becoming one of the city's leading merchants. His marriage to María de Jesus Estudillo tied him to the Hispanic community in his adopted region. Seventy-five years in California (1929) is an expansion of Sixty years in California, a book Davis published in 1889. It is a history of California as well as the author's memoirs of his life through the mid 1850s with an emphasis on the transformation of Yerba Buena to San Francisco, the Gold Rush, and the imposition of United States power in California.
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Seventy-five years in California: a history of events and life in California : personal, political and military : under the Mexican regime : during the quasi-military government of the territory by the United States, and after the admission of the state to the Union ...
1929, John Howell
in English
- A reissue and enlarged illustrated edition of "Sixty years in California" ... edited by D.S. Watson.
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Seventy-Five Years In California: Recollections and remarks by one who visited these shores in 1831,and again in 1833, and except when absent on business ... 1838 until 1909. (American Biography Series)
January 1889, Reprint Services Corp
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0781281040 9780781281041
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