| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Fairfield's pioneer history of Lassen County, California: containing everything that can be learned about it from the beginning of the world to the year of Our Lord 1870 ... Also much of the pioneer history of the state of Nevada ... the biographies of Governor Isaac N. Roop and Peter Lassen ... and many stories of Indian warfare never before published
| | | | Creator: | Fairfield, Asa Merrill, 1854- | | | | Publication: | H. S. Crocker, San Francisco,[c1916] | | | | Call #: | F65X L347F2 | | | | Extent: | 3 p. l., ix-xxii, 506 p., 1 l., front., pl., ports. fold. map. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Frontier and pioneer life -- California | Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada | Lassen County (Calif.) -- History
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Paquita, the Indian heroine: A true story ... presenting graphic pictures of Indian home life in peace and war, as beheld be the author during his residence of four years among the red men
| | | | Creator: | Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913 | | | | Publication: | American Pub. Co, Hartford, Conn,[1881] | | | | Notes: | Also published under the title, "Life amongst the Modocs: unwritten history", London, 1873; "Unwritten history: life amongst the Modocs", Hartford, 1874; and "My own story", Chicago, 1890. Imperfect: half-title and dedication wanting. A duplicate plate no. 15 is inserted before t.-p. | | | | Call #: | B 7722 | | | | Extent: | xvi, 445 p. plates, port. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Modoc Indians -- Fiction | Frontier and pioneer life -- California | California -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | A frontier lady: recollections of the gold rush and early California
| | | | Creator: | Royce, Sarah Bayliss. | | | | | Gabriel, Ralph Henry, 1890-1987 | | | | Publication: | Yale University Press, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, New Haven, London,[1933] | | | | Notes: | "Second printing ... 1933." | | | | Call #: | F65J R888 | | | | Extent: | xiv p., 2 l., 3-144 p. map. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Frontier and pioneer life -- California | Overland journeys to the Pacific | California -- Gold discoveries
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Lewis Schaaf Diary
| | | | Creator: | Schaaf, Lewis | | | | Dates: | 1868-1872 | | | | Abstract: | Lewis Schaaf was a Brooklyn, Ohio, native who traveled to California and Nevada in 1868, working as a teamster and logcutter in the Sierra Nevada mountains before becoming disenchanted with life on the frontier and returning to Ohio three years later. The collection consists of an electrostatic copy of a diary chronicling Schaaf's experiences on the far Western frontier. The diary details Schaaf's journey west by ship via Panama and his life in a lumber camp in the Sierra Nevadas, describing the social life on the frontier, including his involvement in the local Odd Fellows lodge, the celebration at the completion of the transcontinental railroad, as well as train robberies and community destruction from fires. Included are everyday details of pioneering life such as recipes for tobacco substitutes and ways to clear mosquitoes from a room. | | | | Call #: | MS 4417 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Schaaf, Lewis, 1846-1889. | Union Pacific Railroad Company. | Central Pacific Railroad Company. | Frontier and pioneer life -- California. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada. | Voyages to the Pacific coast. | California -- Description and travel. | Nevada -- Description and travel. | Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nevada)
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