A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before

A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush
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A World Transformed gathers together the writings of early European explorers, missionaries, sea captains and other visitors, from the first Spaniards to glimpse San Francisco Bay in 1769 to the eve of the gold rush. In 15 literate and accessible accounts by Father Juan Crespi, George Vancouver, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Edwin Bryant and others, the transformation of San Francisco (and by extension, all of California) unfolds before us. A land of bountiful and open meadows, oak woodlands, plentiful game, and countless distinct groups of native people becomes dominated by a Spanish mission and presidio. A Mexican town grows up and eventually becomes a small city inhabited largely by Bostonians and other Anglo merchants, engaged in trade with the Clipper ships of the East Coast. Modern California emerges, not suddenly but perhaps inevitably.
Country USA
Brand Heyday Books
Manufacturer Heyday Books
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781890771133
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush