tailieunhanh - The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado

The dominant people of California have been successively aborigines, _conquistadores_, monks, the dreamy, romantic, unenergetic peoples of Spain, the roaring melange of Forty-nine, and finally the modern citizens, who are so distinctive that they bid fair to become a subspecies of their own. This modern society has, in its evolution, something unique. To be sure, other countries also have passed through these same phases. But while the processes have consumed a leisurely five hundred years or so elsewhere, here they have beensubjected to forced growth | The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado 1 The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Forty-Niners by Stewart Edward White This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado Author Stewart Edward White Release Date June 28 2004 EBook 12764 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FORTY-NINERS Produced by Suzanne Shell and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE FORTY-NINERS A CHRONICLE OF THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL AND EL DORADO BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE 1918 CONTENTS I. SPANISH DAYS II. THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION III. LAW--MILITARY AND CIVIL IV. GOLD V. ACROSS THE PLAINS VI. THE MORMONS VII. THE WAY BY PANAMA VIII. THE DIGGINGS IX. THE URBAN FORTY-NINER X. ORDEAL BY FIRE XI. THE VIGILANTES OF 51 XII. SAN FRANCISCO IN TRANSITION XIII. THE STORM GATHERS XIV. THE STORM BREAKS XV. THE VIGILANTES OF 56 XVI. THE TRIUMPH OF THE VIGILANTES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE INDEX THE FORTY-NINERS CHAPTER I SPANISH DAYS The dominant people of California have been successively aborigines _conquistadores_ monks the dreamy romantic unenergetic peoples of Spain the roaring melange of Forty-nine and finally the modern citizens who are so distinctive that they bid fair to become a subspecies of their own. This modern society has in its evolution something unique. To be sure other countries also have passed through these same phases. But while the processes have consumed a leisurely five hundred years or so elsewhere here they have been CHAPTER I 2 subjected to forced growth. The tourist traveler is inclined to look upon the crumbling yet beautiful remains of the old missions those venerable relics in a .

• Lịch sử - Văn hoá
• spanish days
• Stewart Edward White
• El Dorado
• the California
• A Chronicle
• history
• THE EARLY DAYS
• COLLEGE DAYS
• ENGLISH CORONATIONS
• THE SPANISH
• THE CONGO
• GREECE