…1849 (1850) recounts the shipwreck that forced McNeil and his compatriots to travel overland from Texas to Mazatla´n, where they obtained passage to San Francisco. He then describes prospecting at…
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…Snow Mountain Power Company, La Grange Power Company, the Great Wester Power Company, the Nevada California Power Company, the Southern Sierras Power Company and the Sierra and San Francisco Power…
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…dozen of its members. The committee was composed mainly of honorable men, deservedly high in the community, in every walk and relation of life. They doubtless acted from a conscientious…
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…and men and come over in full force after their property, and they were assured the Missourians would help them and a combination of forces would give them a majority…
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…companies on the premises themselves, had been provided. A completely equipped armorers’ shop and a hospital with all supplies occupied the third story. The forces were divided into four companies…
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…committee then disbanded, after having issued sentence of banishment against thirty desperadoes. The Second Vigilance Committee The second Vigilance committee of 1856, though in part composed of some of those…
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…that some red skin, not having the fear of the Lord in his heart, did not come and take them away. About ten o’clock my companion began to complain of…
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…Fur companies pooled their interests, and after that it was common to see trappers and fur traders throughout the northern part of the state. The native population regarded all these…
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…free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. You have apparently stumbled upon my contribution to this effort. Our name are Judy…
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…Chinese and Spanish individuals. This record is physically held by the Los Gatos Library, was scanned by California Revealed, and placed online at InternetArchive. While it cannot be downloaded as…
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