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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
y work done on the Pacific Coast by Wilkes. But this 1843-44 expedition did not halt in Oregon. It headed southward into Mexican territory along the eastern edge of the Sierras, hunting for a mythical Buenaventura River that would have made a fine military base had it existed. Not discovering that entrancing Elysian valley, Fremont crossed the high Sierras in dead winter to Sutter's Fort, returning by the thence around south to California, but, before the Days of '49, although Ogden, Jedediah Smith, and Fremont had dared the mid-passage across the Great Basin, there was no real route directly to the rich, inviting mission settlements of the Franciscan friars: settlements that were a world unto themselves delightfully described by Alfred Robinson in Life in California during a residence of several years in that territory, etc. By an American (1846). And in Two years before the Mast (1840) R. H. Dana has some interesting chapters on this primitive California paradise. The historical
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Skidmore, T., 436 Skinner, J. S., 432 Skinner, Otis, 279 Skip to My Lou, 516 Slave; or memoirs of Archy Moore, the, 71 Slavery and Freedom, 226 n. Slavery Ordained of God, 340 Slave trade, the, 435 Sleep, 37 Slim princess, the, 91 Small boy and others, a, 100, 419 Smith, Abiel, 454 Smith, Adam, 425, 428, 431, 435 Smith, Arthur H., 212 Smith, Charles H., 352 Smith, Charlotte, 541 Smith, E. P., 436 Smith, F. Hopkinson, 95, 283 Smith, Harry James, 294 Smith, Jedediah, 139 Smith, Joseph, 142 Smith, Joseph, Jr., 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 526 Smith, R. P., 268 Smith, Roswell, 310 Smith, S. F., 495 Smith, Sydney, 454 Smith, Wm., 394 Smith, Wm. A., 339 Smith, Wm. H., 419 Smith, Winchell, 294 Snake dance of the Moquis [Hopi] of Arizona, 159 Snow-bound, 549 Snowland folk, 170 Social destiny of man, 437 Socialistic . . . fragment, 438 Social pioneer, the, 437 Social problems, 441 Social Science and national econom