I moscoviti nella California, o sia, Dimostrazione della verita’ del passo all’ America Settentrionale nuovamente scoperto dai russi, e di quello anticamente praticato dalli popolatori, che vi trasmigrarono dall’ Asia : dissertazione storico-geografica

Signatures: A-C¹² D⁶. LC copy in signed binding by Hardy. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy from the library of John George Schwarz, with his ink ownership stamp: J.G. Schwarz, consul of the United States of America at Vienna [1849]; with the black leather book label of […]

Ranch life in California. Extracted from the home correspondence of E.M.H.

The author, Evelyn M.H., was a young Englishwoman who accompanied her husband and his two brothers to California in 1885. Ranch life in California (1886) is based on her letters home, beginning with her Atlantic voyage and a cross-country rail trip to San Francisco. There the party purchases a ranch at Lower Lake in Burns […]

Kratkoe geografichesko-statisticheskoe opisanīe Kalifornīi.

This description of California was published to meet Russian curiosity about the gold fields and the region at the height of the gold rush. It draws heavily from Carl Hartmann’s Geographisch-statistische Beschreibung von Californien, as well as newspaper accounts and German brochures about the gold fields. It describes the land and natural resources, political administration […]