California
Subtitle: a history of Upper & Lower California from their first discovery to the present time : comprising an account of the climate, soil, natural productions, agriculture, commerce, &c. A full view of the missionary establishments and condition of the free & domesticated Indians, with an appendix relating to steam-navigation in the Pacific, illustrated with a new map, plans of the harbors and numerous engravings
By: by Alexander Forbes, esq.
Series: USAIN State and Local Literature Preservation Project, California
Publisher: T.C. Russell
Published: 1919
Place of publication: San Francisco, Cal
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Missions -- California.; Indians of North America -- Missions.; Steam-navigation -- Pacific Ocean.; California -- History.; Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- History.
Table of contents: label: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
pagenum: 7
title: LOWER CALIFORNIA; label: CHAPTER I
pagenum: 7
title: History of Lower California from Its Discovery to Its First Settlement by the Jesuits — Native Inhabitants — Nature of the Country; label: CHAPTER II
pagenum: 27
title: Progress of the Jesuits to the Death of Father Kino — Mode of Converting the Indians; label: CHAPTER III
pagenum: 46
title: Progress of the Missions to the Present Time; label: CHAPTER IV
pagenum: 56
title: Character of the Missionary Government — Present State of the Country — Produce — Pearl-Fishery; label: Part II
pagenum: 79
title: UPPER CALIFORNIA; label: CHAPTER I
pagenum: 79
title: First Settlement of Upper California by the Franciscans — History of the Missions to the Death of Father Serra; label: CHAPTER II
pagenum: 131
title: Recent History of Upper California — Present Political Condition and Prospects; label: CHAPTER III
pagenum: 154
title: Topography of Upper California — Natural Productions; label: CHAPTER IV
pagenum: 180
title: Some Account of the Original Inhabitants of Upper California — Their Manners and Customs; label: CHAPTER V
pagenum: 199
title: Account of the Missionary Establishments — Present State of the Indians in Them — Remarks on the Missionary System Generally, and on the Conversion of Infidels; label: CHAPTER VI
pagenum: 246
title: State of Agriculture in Upper California — Its Produce in Grain and Live-Stock; label: CHAPTER VII
pagenum: 281
title: Commerce of Upper California — Navigation — Revenues; label: CHAPTER VIII
pagenum: 309
title: Upper California Considered as a Field for Foreign Colonization; label: APPENDIX I
pagenum: 327
title: REMARKS on the HARBORS of CALIFORNIA By Captain John Hall; label: APPENDIX II
pagenum: 332
title: On STEAM-NAVIGATION in the PACIFIC Remarks by a Former Resident; label: APPENDIX III
pagenum: 343
title: EXTRACTS; label: I
pagenum: 343
title: PANAMA and the PACIFIC A Memorandum Sent to the Foreign Office, on the Advantage of Using the Isthmus of Panama as a More Rapid Means of Communication between Europe and the Ports of the Pacific Ocean By the Hon. P. Campbell Scarlett; label: II
pagenum: 346
title: Extract from "Statements and Documents Relative to the Establishment of Steam-Navigation in the Pacific." By William Wheelwright, Esq.; label: II
pagenum: 350
title: Letter from Captain Fitz Roy; label: III
pagenum: 351
title: Extract from the Prospectus of the "Pacific Steam Navigation Company," to be Incorporated by Royal Charter Capital, 250,000, in 5,000 Shares of 50 Each Issued November 5, 1838