Exploring historic California
By: by Jack Adler.
Publisher: W. Ritchie Press
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Pasadena
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: California -- Biography.
Table of contents: title: Sam Brannan: California's first millionaire.; title: Luther Burbank: plant perturber and infidel.; title: Agoston Haraszthy and "the wine rush".; title: Bret Harte: literary gold miner.; title: Thomas Oliver Larkin: consul and "C.I.A." agent.; title: Jack London: the "American Karl Marx".; title: Joaquin Miller: literary frontiersman.; title: Captain Jack and the Modoc War.; title: Lola Montez: Gold Country queen.; title: The Russians: lovers and sea otters.; title: Jedediah Strong Smith: knight in buckskin.; title: Leland Stanford: grocer and governor.; title: Johann Augustus Sutter: New Helvetian in California.; title: Mariano Vallejo: a California for all rulers.