Granite crags
By: by C.F. Gordon Cumming ...
Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons
Published: 1884
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Law and politics -- California.; Mines and mineral resources -- California.; Agriculture -- California.; Business -- California.; California -- Description and travel.; Yosemite Valley (Calif.)
Description: Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837-1924) was an Englishwoman who sailed from Tahiti to San Francisco in April 1878 and remained in California for five months. Granite crags (1884) is a volume of her travel letters detailing visits to San Rafael, the redwood forsets, the San Joaquín and Sacramento Valleys, Yosemite, Oakland, and Tulare Lake. She evinces great interest in hydraulic mining operations and quartz mining near Sonora and the Stanislaus River and gives special attention to the region's botany and agriculture as well as recounting tales of the Gold Rush and San Francisco in the lawless 1850s.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
No known restrictions on publication.
Travels in California.