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Lights and Shadows of Life on the Pacific Coast

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  1. The entertaining reminiscences of the Honorable Samuel D. Woods, one of the first citizens of California, lawyer and a member of the Congress of the United States. Contents: Voyage to San Francisco Around Cape Horn in 1849; The Strenuous Life of Early Days in Stockton; School Days in Los Angeles in 1855; San Francisco from 1849 to the Civil War; The Pastimes, Occupations and Pleasures of the Early Rural Communities of California; Types of Pioneers before the Age of Gold; Sights and Sounds in the Great City; Some Old Newspapers and Their Great Editors; A Group of Great Lawyers; The Pulpit and Pulpit Orators; The Old California Theater and Its Immortals; Some Old Bankers, Merchants and Financiers; A Few Immortal Names of a Great Profession; A Horseback Ride from San Francisco to Seattle; From Village to Metropolis; The Discovery and Evolution of a Poet; Into the Desert; Death Valley, Its Mysteries and Its Secrets; A Summer Jaunt in the High Sierras; Unique Characters of the Desert-Man and Animal; Some Eccentric Lives; Three Heroes-An Indian, A White Man and A Negro; Incidents of Frontier Life; Two Great Sheriffs; and A Transplanted Railroad and the Man Who Transplanted It.
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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
484
ISBN
9781162640310
  1. The entertaining reminiscences of the Honorable Samuel D. Woods, one of the first citizens of California, lawyer and a member of the Congress of the United States. Contents: Voyage to San Francisco Around Cape Horn in 1849; The Strenuous Life of Early Days in Stockton; School Days in Los Angeles in 1855; San Francisco from 1849 to the Civil War; The Pastimes, Occupations and Pleasures of the Early Rural Communities of California; Types of Pioneers before the Age of Gold; Sights and Sounds in the Great City; Some Old Newspapers and Their Great Editors; A Group of Great Lawyers; The Pulpit and Pulpit Orators; The Old California Theater and Its Immortals; Some Old Bankers, Merchants and Financiers; A Few Immortal Names of a Great Profession; A Horseback Ride from San Francisco to Seattle; From Village to Metropolis; The Discovery and Evolution of a Poet; Into the Desert; Death Valley, Its Mysteries and Its Secrets; A Summer Jaunt in the High Sierras; Unique Characters of the Desert-Man and Animal; Some Eccentric Lives; Three Heroes-An Indian, A White Man and A Negro; Incidents of Frontier Life; Two Great Sheriffs; and A Transplanted Railroad and the Man Who Transplanted It.
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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
10 September 2010
Pages
484
ISBN
9781162640310