Death Valley in ’49
…to sea without a compass. Hence it will be seen that when we crossed a stream that was said to flow to the Pacific Ocean, myself and comrades were ready…
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…to sea without a compass. Hence it will be seen that when we crossed a stream that was said to flow to the Pacific Ocean, myself and comrades were ready…
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Alexander Combs Erkson was one of the pioneers of 1849, having left the state of Iowa in the month of May, when he assisted in organizing a company known as…
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…home is six miles from San Jose, at Eden Vale, and comprises over six hundred acres, of which one hundred and eighty acres is comprised within their orchards, while more…
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…was designed there. The soil which forms this mark is composed mostly of disintegrated white quartz and light gray granite, on which grow weeds and a short, white grass, while…
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…Angeles, 10-30-16. Thirteenth Company Capt. Charles F. Huston, Los Angeles, 9-21-16. 1st Lt. Alfred T. Slaten, Los Angeles, 9-21-16. 2d Lt. Herman F. Martens, Los Angeles, 9-21-16. Fourteenth Company Capt….
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…9-5-16. Machine Gun Company, Fifth Infantry Capt. Frederick A. Marriott, Commissary, Commanding, Palo Alto, 5-19-09. Officers of Medical Corps attached: Capt. Wilfred E. Chambers, Oakland, 5-30-11. 1st Lt. Albert “B”…
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…is now comptroller of the Southern Pacific Company, Union Pacific Railroad, Chicago & Alton Railroad, Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, and the Oregon Shortline Railway, with headquarters in New York….
Biography of Frederick William Mahl of Sacramento Read More »
…along as well as I could, but soon had to say to Rogers that he had better go on ahead and get help and let me come on as best…
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…sent out each day to hunt, and thus keep the party in meat, the balance of the company being engaged during the day in examining the gulches, ravines and canons,…
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…selecting sites. It is to such districts as these that people l migrate each summer from the enervating climate of the interior. The greatest thing next to the coming of…
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