It is a time that saw San Francisco rise from a lawless tent town to one of the most important cities in the world, a magnet to ambitious natures of every nation and race. The Annals is the primary historical source for this period and nowhere has it been described better, with stronger affection or a keener eye. The book concludes with a review of important city institutions circa 1854, and brief biographies of sixteen influential San Francisco figures of the era, including Samuel Brannan, John Geary, Thomas Larkin and John Sutter. The Berkeley Hills Books edition includes 150 beautiful engravings representing scenes from gold-rush San Francisco, a foldout map of the western United States drawn in 1854, a new introduction by Society of California Pioneers Administrator Herbert Ely Garcia, and a complete index by Charles Goehring. It was printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Malloy Lithographing on 60 lb., acid-free paper.
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