The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and
These warmly affectionate letters, presented here in their entirety, paint a vivid picture of California in the mid-nineteenth century, describing the new state
Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Comm
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