Kennedy, Lawton 1900-1980

History of the Sierra Nevada by Francis P Farquhar( Book )

2 editions published between 1965 and 1966 in English and held by 783 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Panorama of human experiences in California's "great snowy range", including the Yosemite, Mt. Whitney, and Lake Tahoe areas, from its sighting by Spaniards to the present

The first Spanish entry into San Francisco Bay, 1775 : the original narrative, hitherto unpublished, by Fr. Vicente María and further details by participants in the first explorations of the Bay's waters, together with four contemporary maps and six illustrations in full colour from the brush and pencil of Louis Choris who was at San Francisco in 1816 by Vicente de Santamaría( Book )

2 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 332 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 1775, the first European vessel sailed into San Francisco Bay, commanded by Juan Manuel de Ayala. During their stay, they charted the Bay, making maps and soundings of the estuary

In pursuit of the golden dream : reminiscences of San Francisco and the northern and southern mines, 1849-1857 by Howard C Gardiner( Book )

3 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 313 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Prospectus, includes detachable order slip

The overland diary of James A. Pritchard from Kentucky to California in 1849 by James Avery Pritchard( Book )

1 edition published in 1959 in English and held by 295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Western America in 1846-1847; the original travel diary of Lieutenant J.W. Abert, who mapped New Mexico for the United States Army by J. W Abert( Book )

1 edition published in 1966 in English and held by 268 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ideas have spurred the way to human progress, from the earliest cave dweller to the latest frontiers of computers and technology. This is a human-scale distillation of the major ideas which have had the greatest impact on our development through the ages. It includes a huge variety of terms including the intimidating, such as post-modernism, structuralism and chaos theory, the unusual, including alchemy, polyphony and parapsychology, while familiar terms such as civilization and beauty are explained anew

George C. Yount and his chronicles of the West : comprising extracts from his "Memoirs" and from the Orange Clark "Narrative" by George C Yount( Book )

1 edition published in 1966 in English and held by 268 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

George Calvert Yount was born 4 May 1794 in Dowden Creek in Burke County, North Carolina. His parents were Jacob Yount and Amarilla or Marillis Killiam. His family moved to Cape Girardeau in 1804. George fought in the War of 1812. He married Eliza Cambridge Wilds in 1818. They and had three children. His wife divorced him in 1830. He was a fur trapper in the Southwest. He settled in Napa Valley, California in 1836. His daughters later joined him in California. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Alsace, North Carolina, Missouri and California

Los Angeles from the days of the Pueblo : together with a guide to the historic old Plaza area including the Pueblo de Los Angeles, State Historical Monument by W. W Robinson( Book )

1 edition published in 1959 in English and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jesuit mission presses in the Pacific Northwest : a history and bibliography of imprints, 1876-1899 by Wilfred P Schoenberg( Book )

2 editions published in 1957 in English and held by 216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Much of this book is about the history and the production of the press at St. Ignatius Mission

California and overland diaries of Count Leonetto Cipriani from 1853 through 1871 : containing the account of his cattle drive from Missouri to California in 1853 : a visit with Brigham Young in the Mormon settlement of Salt Lake City : the assembling of his elegant prefabricated home in Belmont, the first of consequence on the San Francisco peninsula, later to become The Ralston Mansion by Leonetto Cipriani( Book )

3 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 188 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Messenger of destiny : the California adventures, 1846-1847, of Archibald H. Gillespie, U.S. Marine Corps by Werner H Marti( Book )

1 edition published in 1960 in English and held by 185 WorldCat member libraries worldwide