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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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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 2: early recollections of California--(continued). 1849-1850. (search)
casionally a glimpse of some white walls showed where the town lay. A Jacob's ladder was lowered for us from the steamer, and in a minute I scrambled up on deck, followed by Larkin and Hartnell, and we found ourselves in the midst of many old friends. There was Canby, the adjutant-general, who was to take my place; Charley Hoyt, my cousin; General Persifer F. Smith and wife; Gibbs, his aide-de-camp; Major Ogden, of the Engineers, and wife; and, indeed, many old Californians, among them Alfred Robinson, and Frank Ward with his pretty bride. By the time the ship was fairly at anchor we had answered a million of questions about gold and the state of the country; and, learning that the ship was out of fuel, had informed the captain (Marshall) that there was abundance of pine-wood, but no willing hands to cut it; that no man could be hired at less than an ounce of gold a day, unless the soldiers would volunteer to do it for some agreed-upon price. As for coal, there was not a pound in M
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)
litary 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 side is presented by Fr. Zephyrin Englehardt in an extensive work, The Missions and missionaries of California (1911). In the early forties California was nothing more than a detached colony nominally belonging to Mexico but ruled over, so far as
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)
n. Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 295 Ripley, George, 472 Rip Van Winkle, 268 Rise and fall of the Confederate government, 182, 351 Rise of David Levinsky, the, 606, 607 Rise of Silas Lapham, the, 80 Ritschl, 465 Rittig, J., 582 Rival Suitors for America, the, 494 River of the West, the, 153 Robbin, Bobbin, Richard, and John, 511 Robert Carlton. See Hale, B. R. Roberts, John, 432 Robertson, T. W., 269, 270, 276 Robertson, William, 188 Robespierre, 380 Robinson, Alfred, 139 Robinson, Edward, 586 Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 65 Robinson, Tracy, 162 Robinson Crusoe, 17 Robinson Crusoe's money, 439 Roche, Mrs., 541 Rochester Theological Seminary, 215 Rockhill, W. W., 164 Rocky Mountain adventures, 142 Rocky Mountain Survey, 158 Roderick Hudson, 98, 103 Rodolphe de Branchelievre, 595 Roe, Edward Payson, 73, 74, 75, 89 Roger, 526 Rogers, John, 391 Robert, 540 n. Robert, Samuel, 96 Roget, 480 Roland Blake, 90 R