The Eldorado that Bayard Taylor imagined in his youthful poetry was not half so fabulous as the California he finally saw in the historical year of 1849. He joined the flood of Forty-niners, not as a fortune-seeker but as a journalist, sailing from New York on a crowded steamer. The sight of San Francisco dazzled him: the simmering mountains and water and air, the few hundred houses that seemed to multiply before his very eyes, and the streets teeming with people "of a diverse and bizarre character." Real estate was booming, and fortunes were being made, lost, and remade in two months. Before Taylor returned to New York via Mexico in 1850 he would tour the missions, mining camps, and scattered ranches farther inland; note the agricultural potential of the valleys; and talk with the overland emigrants. Taking the feverish pulse of a pitched-together society, he would, like everyone else, be changed by California.

Eldorado Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire

History

Cleland, Robert Glass

TAYLOR, Bayard

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

Among the early mountain men—trappers and traders—to be encountered in This Reckless Breed of Men are Jedediah S. Smith, Joseph Reddeford Walker, James Ohio Pattie, Jim Bridger, William H. Ashley, Kit Carson, Captain Benjamin Bonneville, Peter Skene Ogden, William A. Sublette, Zenas Leonard, and Ewing Young. This highly acclaimed book by Robert Glass Cleland was first published in 1950.

This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest

Univ of Nebraska Pr

This reckless breed of men: The trappers and fur traders of the Southwest

Well received by critics when first published in 1941, The Cattle on a Thousand Hills describes Southern California in its transition from a cattle frontier of Mexican rule and culture to an agricultural American community on the eve of great industrial and urban expansion. The story includes the conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and settlements, the gradual displacement of frontier violence and instability by a more restrained, law-abiding society, and the impact of Anglo-Saxon customs and institutions upon the pastoral life of the Spanish-Californians.

The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-1880 (The Huntington Library Classics)

Huntington Library Press

The Irvine Ranch in Orange County is one of the largest properties remaining from California’s Rancho Era. In 1952 the Huntington Library first published the history of this gigantic ranchfrom the days of the Gabrielino Indians, through the rule by Spain and Mexico, to the ownership and administration by four generations of the Irvine family. The ranch was a combination of three large land grants that went, wholly or in part, into the making of the Irvine property.Dr. Cleland tells the history of these grants and provides reproductions of old maps and portraits of early owners. Using ranch records and many other sources, Cleland combines sound historical scholarship with a high degree of literary skill to tell the story of the ranch in the larger setting of the history of the region and the state. An Epilogue by Robert V. Hine describes the changes that have taken place since the book was first published, and tells of the long-range plans for light industry, residential and commercial use of the land, and for a University of California campus.

The Irvine Ranch (The Huntington Library Classics)

Isaias W. Hellman, a man "born with a genius for finance," was chiefly responsible for the establishment of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in 1871. As its president for several decades, Hellman determined many of its politics; the bank reflected his integrity and relied on his business acumen. The story of the Farmers and Merchants Bank is that of the development of Los Angeles, particularly in the formative period from 1870 to 1900.

Isaias W. Hellman and the Farmers and Merchants Bank

Putnam, Frank B.

Well received by critics when first published in 1941, The Cattle on a Thousand Hills describes Southern California in its transition from a cattle frontier of Mexican rule and culture to an agricultural American community on the eve of great industrial and urban expansion. The story includes the conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and settlements, the gradual displacement of frontier violence and instability by a more restrained, law-abiding society, and the impact of Anglo-Saxon customs and institutions upon the pastoral life of the Spanish-Californians.

Business & Money

Industries

John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) was one of the most controversial figures of early Mormon history. A fervent convert, he was adopted by Brigham Young and rose to become a leading member of the church's hierarchy. Lee left behind a number of colorful diaries that reveal in fascinating clarity and detail the everyday life of Utah's pioneer settlers. In them, he describes his close relationship with Brigham Young, his experiences in converting Native Americans to Mormonism, his trials with farming and livestock, his encounters with his 19 wives, and his eventual exile to the barren wastelands of Lee's Ferry. In the 1950s, five of Lee's diaries in the Huntington collections were meticulously edited and annotated by historians Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks and published in two volumes by the Huntington Library in 1955 to great acclaim as A Mormon Chronicle, The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876. The University of Utah Press kept the book in print until the 1990s; it has now been reprinted as a Huntington Library Classic with a new foreword by Andrew Rolle, a Huntington research fellow and retired Cleland Professor of History from Occidental College. In his foreword, Rolle discusses the collaboration between Cleland, a leading historian of the Southwest, and Brooks, a notable scholar of Mormon history.

A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876

Religion & Spirituality

Univ of Utah Pr

This beautiful narrative is a classic of Southern California history, revealing the continuing story of Southern California's oldest commercial building: the adobe Old Mill of the San Gabriel Mission days. The landmark lives on today in a serene native plant garden.

El Molino Viejo

Many Moons Press

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A History of California: The American Period

Legare Street Press

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Eldorado Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire

This Reckless Breed of Men: The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest

This reckless breed of men: The trappers and fur traders of the Southwest

The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-1880 (The Huntington Library Classics)

The Irvine Ranch (The Huntington Library Classics)

Isaias W. Hellman and the Farmers and Merchants Bank

The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California, 1850-1880 (The Huntington Library Classics)

A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876

El Molino Viejo

A History of California: The American Period