THE EARLY DAYS OF CALIFORNIA, Embracing What I Saw and Heard There, With Scenes in the Pacific. Published in 1860 by John E. 8 x 5 cloth hardcover. Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior as shown in photo, bit of a shelf lean. The text is complete and generally clean, some minor foxing and age blemishes in the margins, but after all the book is 161 years old. No torn, loose or missing pages. Overall a good surviving example of this very rare early California guide and record of the great gold rush years. This a rare 1860 edition of Thomas J. Farnhams THE EARLY DAYS OF CALIFORNIA, a richly illustrated portrait of the Golden State from earliest times up to the Gold Rush of the late 1840s. THE EARLY DAYS OF CALIFORNIA describes the Golden States seemingly boundless riches and resources, from its fertile valleys and sunny climates, to its mineral-rich hills, dazzling scenery, teeming wildlife and its indigenous native American populations. The author, an explorer and adventurer, personally visited all of the places he describes, many of which were still under Mexican governance at the time. Farnham saw in California a verdant land that was ripe for the plucking, a land waiting to be developed by the latest generation of ambitious, industrious Americans. In THE EARLY DAYS OF CALIFORNIA Farnham presents a superb narrative description of Californias early history and inhabitants Indian, Mexican and white. It preserves for all time an invaluable glimpse of early California life, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Farnhams work includes descriptions of early California locales including Monterey, Santa Barbara, San Diego and San Francisco, and others. To give you a better idea of the gold mine of information awaiting you in the pages of this rare antique book, I have furnished some helpful details below, starting with a thorough accounting of the books contents. Further down the page, you will find a sampling of the illustrations in the book. I hope you will take a moment to have a look. CHAPTER ONE: A Reminiscence A Spectacle Oregon Landward and Seaward The Great South Sea Magic Palace Taking in Studding-sails Caverns Storm in Full Blast Professor of Psalmody Fur Hunter A British Tar An Author A Seaboat A Corkscrew A Flagon A Conversation about Life in the Northwest Its Dogs Logs Food Surface Lords of the North Frozen Mountains Moss Flowers Potatoes, Oats and Barley Indian Wives and Sheep The Arctic Shores Suicide of a Brave Man A Solo Eel Pond Ghost in the Shrouds Tumult in Upper and Lower Ocean Minor Key War-cry Special Pleading The Sea Wine and Song To Bed. CHAPTER TWO: The next Morning Eating Mermaids Cupid A Sack of Bones on its Legs Love A Grandsire She was a Woman Chickens A Black Son o’ the De’il A Crack o’ the Claymore Sublimity Tropical Sight Paternal Star Cook A Sense Edge of the Trades A Night “On Deck” A Guess A Look and Doubt To be Dumbfoundered A Bird Note Mouna-Kea Christmas Eve Watch-Fires of Angels Birds Fish Homesteading Hawaiians The Land Moratai Mooring Landing at Honolulu A Slice of Bull Poi The Death Wail Hospitality The Lover and his Destination The Fur Hunter on the Back Track The Professor of Psalmody. CHAPTER THREE: Hawaiian Islands Spaniards first visited them Hoopili Wyhini Account of Cooks visit A god A Robber and his Death Vancouver’s Visit Kamehameha I. A Treaty Cattle Origin of the Islands Poetry, and another Book Legends Tabu Philosophy of Civilization A Way to me End What is Taught Gratitude Departure from the Islands Lava and Cauldrons Goats and Men Passengers Captain, Mates and Crew A Human Managerie Northing Variables Ten days Out Too nauseous for Music Uncombed Hair Exhilarated Lovely Growing Fat Ten Knots Ten more days out An Ocean Don American and English Tars A Squall A new mode of taking Eels Land ho Mission Wrath Monterey. CHAPTER FOUR: Mother Earth Revolution Americans and British in Prison A Guard A Governor An Interview An Alcalde A Passport A running Salute Cries for Air and Water Despair A Horrid Night Starvation Dungeons A Demand Signals A course adopted A Leaf of History General Echuanda and his Deeds A Tennessean Hunter and a Clerk A Camp Formed A League A March An Attack A Banishment Independence An old Method of Rewarding Friends A Notification A Junto Wagers and Senoritas A Stratagem and its Consequences Names of Prisoners. CHAPTER FIVE: The Prisoners. CHAPTER SEVEN: An Incomparable Wilderness A Strange Period Phrenzy An Indian Fire Gentlemen by the Grace of God versus Gentlemen by the Grace of Self A Sight of a Great Sea The first Voyage around the Earth A Surrender Victims Fleet Voyage Another Voyage Murder Massacre Another Voyage Shipwreck Beaten to death in the surf The Dead and their Requiem Gathered at their Ancient Altars A Return Another Voyage An Arrival from a Ten Years’ tramp among the Savages An Expedition by Sea and Land Death of the Discoverer of California. Return to Mazatlan Death To Acapulco Lamentations. 1633-4 Don Pedro Portel de Cassanate A. 1683 Indians A Battle All busy Orders from Mexico Ships dispatched A Garrison and Church An Expedition into the Interior Despatches arrive A Determination Padre Kino Padre Juan Maria Salva Tierra The Jesuits Powers granted Salva Tierra goes to California The Resurrection Insolence An Attack A Repulse A General Onset A Route Peace Arrival of Padre Piccolo An Exploration Condition of the Conquest Salva Tierra goes to Senora for Food An Expedition to the Gila and Colorado of the West by Padres Kino and Salva Tierra Return to Senora Padre Salva Tierra leaves for California Another Expedition to the Gila and Colorado by Padres Kino and Gonzales Indians and Rivers Death Last Days of Padre Kino A lost Grave. CHAPTER TEN: Meeting of Padres Salva Tierra and Ugarte A Plot Burning of San Xavier Ugarte at San Xavier Famine A Runaway A Murder A Campaign Rejoicings A Tempest An Arrival of Food and Soldiers Measures for the Advancement of the Conquest Exploration of the Interior Sacking of San Xavier Massacres A Court Martial An Execution Peace Expedition to the North Distress A Council, and its Results Endurance Roaming and Starving An Attack Salva Tierra leaves California His Return Extension of the Conquest Ligui, and a great Example A Chastisement A murderous Attempt Mulege Cada Kaaman The Triumph of the Good Poison Death. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Padre Juan Ugarte and Jayme Bravo explore the Pacific Coast Dearth Thirst Padre Salva Tierra A Tempest Landing at Loretto San Josef Wrecked Padre Salva Tierra goes to the Rescue Energy Suffering Die by Thousands Wrecked At Sea in a Longboat The Limit of Despair They toil on The Guaycuros Massacre San Ignacio Padre Salva Tierra leaves California Death of a Hero at Guadalaxara. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: A Mission Founded A Tornado Death Another Mission Founded A Vineyard A Harvest Indications of Trouble A Murder Forbearance Three Murders Measures taken for Defence The Insurgents Captured A Trial A Sentence A Reprieve Death of Padre Piccolo A Visitor Further Steps in the Conquest A Voyage Birds Natives Country Islands A Plunge A Shark Death. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A Rebellion attempted. Arrival from the Seas. The Sick Departure Disaffection among the Indians Insurrection Fearful Times Martyrdom of Padres Carranco and Tamaral All the Missions in a State of Revolt The Padres retire to Loretto Aid denied by the Viceroy It comes from the Indians themselves The Missions in the North send Delegates to the Padres Peace made and Padres resume their Labors Southern Missions recovered Indians reduced to Subjection Condition of the Conquest in 1745. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Padre Junipero Serra; An Expedition by Sea, for the Conquest of Upper California Arrival at Loretto Expeditions by sea and land to the North Arrivals at San Diego Ceremonies of Founding a Mission A Battle Going Northward Naming the bay of San Francisco Return to San Diego The Resolution of Padre Junipero An Arrival Departure for Monterey Founding a Mission, &c. A Diabolical Plot at San Diego A Dreadful Battle at Night Death Dohertys Description Mission Destroyed San Juan Capistrano Mission and Presidio of San Francisco Founded Death of Padre Junipero Number of Missions in Upper California Dates of their Establishment Progress, Wealth and Influence of Missions Mexican Revolution General Echeandra arrives in California Measures taken to destroy the Missions A Revolution California Independent Declaration of Rights Alvarado and Villejo Jose Castro Don Carlos Antonio Carrello Domestic War among Californian Freemen Operations of the Grand Armies of the North and South A Victory of Noses Return of Upper California to the Mexican Dominion. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A New Era in California War with the United States Various Battles Heroism of the Americans Conquest Discovery of Gold Brilliant Hopes On the Pacific Again Long Tom Finishes His Yarn Speculations on the Future of California The Prisoners Poor Graham Home and My Wife Reflections. 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- Year Printed: 1860
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Topic: Travel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Region: North America
- Author: Farnham
- Subject: History
- Original/Facsimile: Original
- Language: English
- Publisher: Potter
- Place of Publication: Philadelphia
- Special Attributes: Illustrated