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California: for health, pleasure, and residence : a book for travellers and settlers
Record details
- ISBN: 0913668249
- ISBN: 9780913668245
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Physical Description:
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[7]-255 pages : illustrations, plates, maps ; 23 cm - Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Ten Speed Press, 1973.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in 1873 by Harper & Brothers, New York. Cover title: California for travellers and settlers. "Centennial printing." |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The way out -- Sights by the way -- Salt Lake City -- The Central Pacific Railroad -- The tourist in California -- what to see, and how to see it -- The great sights of California -- hints to travellers -- "John" -- Gold-mining, with a decayed mining town -- Southern California for invalids -- The agricultural wealth of California -- a general view -- The Agricultural lands of California -- hints to settlers -- A January day in Los Angeles -- Farming in San Bernardino -- An old Californian rancho -- The Indians as laborers -- The Coast counties in February -- Semi-tropical fruits in Southern California -- Anaheim -- a successful colony -- with hints for other colonists -- Wheat farming in the San Joaquin Valley -- The Chinese as railroad builders -- a great stock-farmer -- The Tulare Lake -- cheap farms for the million -- Co-operative farming -- how irrigating ditches are made -- Beet sugar, silk, etc. -- Wine-growing in California -- some estimates of cost -- raisins -- A golden valley -- Sheep farming -- with a night around a camp-fire -- A California cattle rancho -- a rodeo -- peculiar customs of the Spanish Californians -- Southern California for consumptives -- Tables of temperature in Clarens (Switzerland), Aiken (Georgia) and San Bernardino and Anaheim (California) -- Latest improvements in the Yosemite Route. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | F 866 .N67 1873 | 269528 | Stacks | Available | - |