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BIBLIOGRAPHY
in 1851. Because it describes certain alleged acts of bad treatment of
goldseekers by Salt Lake City Mormons, it falls chronologically into the
1845-1851 period. However, I have chosen not to discuss it in this book,
but will bring it up later. It is offered here only because of the light it casts
on contemporary attitudes. (In the winter of 1851-1852 two otherwise
reputable Protestant ministers distributed and promoted the book in
Nevada City, a typical example of western Mormon-baiting).
Henry Christman’s Tin Horns and Calico, and People Made it Happen Here, edited by Henrietta Riter, are fine sources of information about
life in Albany County, New York, and in the township of Rensselaerville.
For a more general look at victorian era life in America I like The Americans, A Social History of the United States, by J. C. Furnas, and The
Lady of Godey’s, by Ruth Finley.
Among my favorite books about life in California are Conquer and
Colonize, by Donald Biggs; Peter Burnett’s Recollections; Louise
Clappe’s The Shirley Letters; Christiane Fischer’s Let Them Speak for
Themselves: Women in the American West; Lienhard’s A Pioneer at
Sutter’s Fort; Sarah Royce’s A Frontier Lady; Margaret Sanborn’s The
American River; William T. Sherman’s Memoirs; and a trio by George
Stewart: The California Trail, Ordeal by Hunger, and Committee of
Vigilance.
The history of printing and frontier journalism can be explored in
Newspapering in the Old West, by Karolevitz; Kemble’s A History of
California Newspapers; in Bancroft’s histories of California and Oregon;
Baird’s California’s Pictorial Letter Sheets; and “Newspapers of the California Northern Mines, 1850-1860,” an unpublished Stanford doctoral
dissertation by Chester Kennedy. For more detailed information about
old handpresses one should read Lewis Allen’s Printing with the Handpress and James Moran’s Printing Presses.
The remaining books in this list, each of which contributed in some
small or large way to the whole, are works that should be read by anyone
interested in becoming well versed in California’s beginnings. The fact
that I have not mentioned them in this note merely indicates that they are
less specific about the subjects named.
BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS AND ARTICLES:
ABELL, ELIZABETH, comp. Westward, Westward, Westward: The Long Trail
West and the Men Who Followed It. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1958.
ADAMS, JaMEs D., ed. Old Marin with Love: A Collection of Historical Essays.
San Rafael: Marin County American Revolution Bicentennial Commission,
1976.
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