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Mining in Yuba County
Mining in Yuba County illustrates the story of how this geologically unique part of California drew multitudes of people from around the world during the early days of the Gold Rush. It depicts the region's evolution from anarchy to civilization. It gives faces to the individuals who were instrumental in creating society in Yuba. It elaborates on incidents in which Yuba influenced the nation, on matters as historically significant as California entering the Union as a free state and affecting the outcome of the Civil War. Mining in Yuba fostered technological advancement precipitated by the depletion of surface gold and the necessity to get to the obscured gold. Conflicts between miners and agriculturists over hydraulic mining were litigated, and landmark legal decisions regarding the regulation of hydraulic mining all but ended the practice and were the beginnings of environmental protectionism and water rights issues in California. Finally, it reveals that despite heavy regulations that exist today, there is still mining in Yuba County.
The Ancestry of Theodore Timothy Judge and Ellen Sheehy Judge
Theodore Timothy Judge, son of Timothy Aloysius Judge and Hazel Agnes Russell, was born in 1921 in Westwood, California. He married Ellen Sheehy.
Brooklyn Raised / Livin' Upstate
In the early 70s and 80s, Brooklyn, NY seemed like the perfect place to live for a little girl who could never imagine living 'upstate' in the country. Family vacations, helping out her parents, and learning to live through change gave way to the biggest change yet--livin' upstate and starting a family of her own. This is a snapshot of one girls life as she changes into a woman and a mother and eventually experiences the lose of her own mother.
Smartsville and Timbuctoo
Smartsville and Timbuctoo (California State Landmarks Nos. 321 and 320) are essentially one place with two names. As worked-out claims and floods forced placer forty-niners up from the sandbars into the hills above the Yuba River, and as word spread around the world about gold in the California hills, towns and communities formed. The Smartsville and Timbuctoo area was once the most populated place in eastern Yuba County. Black Bart, Jim "the Timbuctoo Terror" Webster, and other desperadoes haunted the local roads. Eventually fires, worked-out diggings, and the Sawyer Decision succeeded in driving out all but the most dedicated (and in some cases eccentric) residents. Neither town, though, is ready yet for the dustbin of history: the population might once again explode-this time not with gold seekers but with long-distance commuters, turning the former boomtowns into future bedroom communities.
Cemeteries of the Western Sierra
Cemeteries are more than final resting places for the dead; they are gateways to an area's shared history. Every hand-carved granite or marble monument, every faded wooden marker, holds a clue. Western Sierra populations boomed with the discovery of gold and often dwindled as gold fever waned. Cemeteries of the Western Sierra uses the lens of the cemetery to glimpse a rich and disappearing history. Displaced indigenous populations, miners, dueling newspaper magnates, Chinese pioneers: all are part of the mosaic of history represented in a historical cemetery. From solitary graves in the forest to almost forgotten graveyards near the center of a town, cemeteries tell a story not just of who may have died but also of who lived and what was meaningful in their time.
John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary, and the First Three Generations of Their Descendants, 2nd Edition
John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary grew up in Laurens County, South Carolina. They married in 1807, then moved to Indiana. They later returned to the South, and settled in Lawrence County, Alabama. After Elizabeth's death, John Brown (who was an uncle of General Ambrose Burnside) moved to Warren County, Illinois, where he remarried, and spent the rest of his life. John and Elizabeth's descendants included doctors and lawyers, farmers and ranchers, soldiers, bankers, scientists, and engineers. Many bore other surnames-among them Dobbins, Cogdell, Wilson, Dandridge, Otwell, Davidson, and Glenn. They were a varied and mobile family, whose lives were intertwined with many major events of American history-the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the westward movement of the American population, and the nation's transformation from an agrarian and rural to a more industrialized and urban society. This book makes use of a variety of sources, including previously unpublished correspondence, to tell their story.
The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California
Collected and reproduced here for the first time, these journals and maps offer a new and unique perspective on California in the mid-nineteenth century. Derby’s reports and journals appear alongside those of Robert Stockton Williamson, William H. Warner, Edward O. C. Ord, Nathaniel Lyon, Henry Walton Wessells, and Erasmus Darwin Keyes. These documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on Native and white populations.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy, 3rd Edition
- Up-to-date techniques for navigating the evolving world of genealogical research - Savvy advice for overcoming frustrating obstacles and of research
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Wie Heinrich Lienhard mit Ochsenwagen nach Kalifornien zog und dort den Goldrausch miterlebte Früh packt den Glarner Bauernsohn Heinrich Lienhard das Fernweh. Nach dem Tod seiner Mutter bricht er 21-jährig nach Illinois auf, drei Jahre später reist er 1846 mit Freunden auf dem California Trail westwärts in die mexikanische Provinz Oberkalifornien am Pazifik. Er verdingt sich als Freiwilliger im Krieg gegen Mexiko und arbeitet anschliessend drei Jahre für John A. Sutter im Sacramento-Tal. Als 1848 unweit von Sutters Fort Gold entdeckt wird, beobachtet Lienhard zuerst erstaunt, dann mit zunehmender Entrüstung die grossen Veränderungen, die der Goldrausch für Land und Menschen, insbeson...
