The  early days and men of California
By: by W. F. Swasey, 1891.
Contributors: Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?; Pacific Press (Oakland, Calif.)
Publisher: Pacific press publishing company
Published: 1891
Place of publication: Oakland, Cal; New York [etc]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: California -- History.; California -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR
pagenum: 9; label: CHAPTER I
pagenum: 48
title: Author's Arrival in California - Book-keeper at Sutter's Fort - Sutter's Hospitality - General Castro's Arrival at Fort - Castro's Proclamation; label: CHAPTER II
pagenum: 51
title: Fremont's Arrival - His Trip to San Joaquin Valley and to Yerba Buena and Monterey - Obtains Permission from Castro to Take His Men to Monterey - Takes His Command towards Monterey - Arrives at Gomez Ranch - Castro Raises Force to Resist His Further Advance - Fremont Camps, Throws up Breastworks and Hoists American Flag - Strikes Camp and Goes to Tulare Valley - Arrival of Lieutenant Gillespie as Bearer of Dispatches from Secretary of State - Secret Letter to Larkin - Gillespie Starts to Recall Fremont - Bancroft's History - Larkin's Books Taking of Sonoma by Bear Flag Party - Bancroft's Comments - Castro's Proclamation the Cause - Bancroft's Denunciations - Author's Criticism of Bancroft; label: CHAPTER III
pagenum: 57
title: Affairs in Monterey - English Feeling Dominant - Junta of Californians - Speech by General Vallejo - Bancroft's Denial - Letter from General Vallejo - Arrival of Commodore Sloat - Rumors of Trouble in Mexico - Larkin's Interview with Sloat - Interviews between Sloat, Captains Mervine and Page - Commodore Sloat's Irresolution and Timidity - Anxiety of the Americans - Protest of French Consul - His Arrest Commodore Sloat's Final Determination to Raise the Flag - The Flag Raised; label: CHAPTER IV
pagenum: 62
title: Dispatches Sent to Captain Montgomery and Fremont - Arrival of Com- modore Stockton on Frigate Congress - Arrival of British Line-of- Battle Ship Collingwood, Admiral Seymour - Fremont's Arrival with His Men - Their Unique - Appearance - British Officers Visit Their Camp - Their Expert Rifle Shooting - Doctor Semple - Fremont Sails for San Diego - Commodore Sloat Turns over Command to Commodore Stockton - Stockton Sails for San Pedro - Combines Forces with Fremont and Takes Los Angeles - Leaves Los Angeles in Command of Gillespie - He Is Obliged to Capitulate Captain Mervine's Attempt to Retake Los Angeles Abortive - Re-organizing Forces in the North - Stockton Sails for San Diego - Fremont Sails for the South - Author Joins Battalion - Put into Monterey - Larkin Taken Prisoner; label: CHAPTER V
pagenum: 67
title: Recruits Arrive from the North - Battle of "Natividad"; label: CHAPTER VI
pagenum: 73
title: Fremont Leaves Monterey - Organization of Battalion - Indian Spy Shot - Taking of San Luis Obispo - Jose de Jesus Pico - Tried by Court Martial and Condemned to Be Shot - Pico Pardoned; label: CHAPTER VII
pagenum: 78
title: Passage of the Santa Ynez Mountains - Taking of Santa Barbara - Arrival at San Buenaventura - Messenger from Commodore Stockton - Arrival at San Fernando Mission - Flag of Truce - Commissioners Meet and Conclude Treaty for Capitulation - Surrender and Completion of the Conquest of California; label: CHAPTER VIII
pagenum: 81
title: General Remarks and Conclusion; title: INTRODUCTION TO BIOGRAPHY
pagenum: 83; title: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
pagenum: 89; title: INDEX OF PIONEERS
pagenum: 89; title: General John C Fremont
pagenum: 89; title: William Davis Murry Howard
pagenum: 151; title: William A Leidesdorff
pagenum: 155; title: Jasper O'Farrell
pagenum: 157; title: John Sullivan 4
pagenum: 159; title: Moses Schellenberger
pagenum: 161; title: Jacob R Snyder
pagenum: 172; title: George McDougall
pagenum: 177; title: William Blackburn
pagenum: 179; title: Washington A Bartlett
pagenum: 181; title: George Hyde
pagenum: 183; title: Edwin Bryant
pagenum: 193; title: Richard Mitchell Sherman
pagenum: 193; title: R C Kirby
pagenum: 196; title: Edward C Kemble
pagenum: 199; title: Samuel Brannan
pagenum: 202; title: Benjamin S Lippincott
pagenum: 208; title: Andrew J Grayson
pagenum: 209; title: Robert A Parker
pagenum: 210; title: Selim E Wood worth
pagenum: 212; title: Colonel Jonathan D Stevenson
pagenum: 218; title: Emanuel Charles Christian Russ
pagenum: 229; title: Adolphus Gustave Russ
pagenum: 233; title: Charles Edward Russ
pagenum: 237; title: Augustus Philip Russ
pagenum: 238; title: Frederick Russ
pagenum: 238; title: Henry B Russ
pagenum: 239; title: Edward Gilbert
pagenum: 241; title: James C L Wadsworth
pagenum: 242; title: Joseph Libbey Folsom
pagenum: 245; title: George Stoneman
pagenum: 246; title: Pierre Barlow Cornwall
pagenum: 250; title: Orville C Pratt
pagenum: 254; title: Captain William A Richardson
pagenum: 268; title: William Heath Davis
pagenum: 268; title: " Nathan Spear
pagenum: 269; title: William Sturgis Hinckley
pagenum: 269; title: Jean Jaques Voiget
pagenum: 269; title: John Paty
pagenum: 269; title: Robert T Ridley
pagenum: 269; title: Peter Shirrebeck
pagenum: 270; title: Joseph P Thompson
pagenum: 270; title: Henry F Tischemacher
pagenum: 270; title: William M Smith
pagenum: 270; title: Elbert P.Jones
pagenum: 271; title: James Lick
pagenum: 271; title: W Frank Ward
pagenum: 271; title: John C Buchanan
pagenum: 271; title: Benjamin R Buckelew
pagenum: 272; title: Alfred J Ellis
pagenum: 272; title: James C Ward
pagenum: 272; title: Alexander G Abell
pagenum: 272; title: John B Frisbie
pagenum: 273; title: Doctor William C Parker
pagenum: 273; title: Thaddeus M Leavenworth
pagenum: 273; title: Francis J Lippett
pagenum: 274; title: s Doctor Victor J Fourgeand
pagenum: 274; title: Eliab and Hiram Grimes
pagenum: 274; title: Charles L Ross
pagenum: 274; title: THE ARGONAUTS
pagenum: 277; title: Louis Sloss
pagenum: 277; title: Caius Tacitus Ryland
pagenum: 282; title: Willard Brigham Farwell
pagenum: 286; title: David Jackson Staples '
pagenum: 291; title: Arthur M Ebbets
pagenum: 297; title: Howard Havens
pagenum: 301; title: Colonel John D Fry
pagenum: 304; title: Thomas Cole
pagenum: 308; title: Frank M Pixley
pagenum: 311; title: Barnes Phelan
pagenum: 317; title: Abraham Powell
pagenum: 321; title: William Henry Bovee
pagenum: 326; title: Henry Brown Hunt
pagenum: 332; title: Darius O Mills
pagenum: 337; title: William T Coleman
pagenum: 345; title: Richard Hayes McDonald
pagenum: 354; title: William H Pratt
pagenum: 364; title: Atkins Massey
pagenum: 368; title: Daniel Norcross
pagenum: 374; title: John F Lohse
pagenum: 379; title: Edgar Briggs
pagenum: 381; title: George Dedrick Nagle
pagenum: 385; title: George H Howard
pagenum: 396; title: Reuben Morton
pagenum: 398