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Author : John Haskell Kemble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:603858156
Author : John H. Kemble
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1972-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018131320
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252843920
Author : John Haskell Kemble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Postal service
ISBN : UCR:31210017212455
Author : John Haskell Kemble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Postal service
ISBN : IND:32000002759761
"For two decades, the Panama route was the best way of travel and communication between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. Annually, thousands of passengers went over it eastward and westward, as well as vast volumes of mail and treasure... The present study has grown from a lifelong interest in maritime history and particularly from an early concern with the history of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. It has taken shape with the discovery of materials and has therefore given the author the joy of exploration in little-charted seas"--Pref.
Author : John Walton Caughey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520338838
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1948.
Author : Anthony Godfrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754064817459
Author : Anthony Godfrey,United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : UCBK:C048806190
"The intent of this Historic Resource Study (HRS) of the Pony Express National Historic Trail is threefold: 1) to provide basic information to assist in the preparation of the trail comprehensive management plan (CMP) and to manage and interpret the trail, 2) to furnish National Park Service (NPS) managers and planners, state and local authorities, private landowners, and cooperating groups with an extensive trail database for action plans and implementation activities for the Pony Express National Historic Trail, and 3) to give to the public a general history of the Central Overland California & Pike's Peak Express Company (C.O.C. & P.P. Express Co.) otherwise known as the Pony Express"--Preface excerpt, page [i].
Author : Felice A. Bonadio
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
“It is rare for a banker to win national acclaim, or even recognition... J. P. Morgan apart, it is hard to think of a banker who achieved this kind of status. A. P. Giannini had it on the West Coast, but even though he remained a regional banker, his influence was national... Felice A. Bonadio... describes him... as the Henry Ford of banking... While recognizing that Giannini was no saint, Mr. Bonadio accepts him at his own valuation as ‘the people’s banker.’ There is no question that in creating the world’s largest bank he greatly benefited California, much of the state’s explosive growth in this century having been financed by Bank of America. And as Mr. Bonadio points out, by extending easy credit more broadly than anyone else, he ‘expanded the boundaries of life for millions.’ To do so was his dream, and the realization of it justifies the effort Mr. Bonadio has put into this book.” — William L. O’Neill, The New York Times “Giannini, who began his career as a wholesaler of fruit and vegetables, became a financial giant. As early as 1920, his San Francisco bank had 220,000 depositors. Competing bankers joined fundamentalist Protestant groups in charging him with fomenting a Catholic-Italian plot to take over the West’s financial institutions. Giannini’s 410-branch banking octopus did, indeed, engage in such tactics. The author uncovered internal bank memos documenting quite ruthless attempts to capture the bank accounts of immigrant school children and women family members. The investments which the Bank of America backed included the movie business. In addition to becoming Walt Disney’s first financial sponsor, Giannini helped to subsidize the building of the Golden Gate bridge. Bonadio gives one a real sense of what it meant for the warm-hearted but sometimes volatile Giannini to help finance such huge enterprises. Bonadio’s narrative is direct and forceful. The description of Giannini’s personal character moves the story along skillfully.” — Andrew Rolle, Italian Americana “By starting a bank and nurturing it into the biggest bank in the world, Amadeo Peter Gianninni became possibly the most spectacular entrepreneur of the early part of the twentieth century. His story is inspiring and of interest to anyone who wants to understand the history of the West or the development of financial institutions in the United States... This book should... be a part of every complete library on the history of the west or financial history.” — Lynne Pierson Doti, The Journal of Economic History “Until this biography appeared, we have had to rely on [a] very old and limited account of the Bank of America... Felice A Bonadio has made what appears to be thorough use of the bank’s archives to go far beyond [that old account]. He adds much to our knowledge of Giannini’s enterprises, which included not only his early ventures as a produce merchant, but also his major involvement with the film industry throughout the 1920s and ‘30s. Bonadio writes well, and knows how to tell a story.” — Richard M. Abrams, Pacific Historical Review “[Bonadio’s] accomplishment rests on the careful presentation of archival resources and of a large secondary literature. The clarity of the story is reinforced through the use of extensive quotes... a well-documented business biography.” — Gunther Barth, Montana Magazine of Western History “[T]hose interested in the reconstruction of one financier’s view of his world will find in Bonadio’s book much to think about.” — Kerry Odell, The American Historical Review
Author : Lloyd J. Mercer
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1587981548
This is a reprint of a previously published book. It deals with the effect of 19th century railroad land grants on economic efficiency.
Author : Leonard L. Richards
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307277572
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Author : Robert E. May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521763837
Robert E. May internationalizes the American Civil War and reinterprets the 1860 presidential campaign, shedding new light on the Lincoln-Douglas rivalry.
Author : Oscar Lewis
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307828187
Sea Routes to the Gold Fields tells the story of one of the most exciting mass movements in history: the migration by sea of the tens of thousands who joined the headlong race to California’s newly discovered gold fields. This work fills an important gap in the literature of the Gold Rush, for while numerous books have been written about those who traveled overland to California, this is the first to give a comprehensive picture of the other half of the migration, of those Argonauts who made the journey in the slow, tiny, and incredibly crowded sailing ships and steamers of a century ago. It presents a colorful, varied, and extremely interesting picture of life on the gold ships during the months-long voyages, of the emigrants’ accommodations, food, and recreations, of their intermediate stops en route, and of what befell those who made the isthmian crossings at Panama or Nicaragua. Based mainly on the diaries and letters of pioneers who made the journey between 1849 and 1852, Sea Routes to the Gold Fields is a fascinating record of one of the most dramatic episodes in the nation’s history.
Author : Alex Roland,W. Jeffrey Bolster,Alexander Keyssar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470136003
"The Way of the Ship offers a global perspective and considers both oceanic shipping and domestics shipping along America's coasts and inland waterways, with explanations of the forces that influenced the way of the ship. The result is an eye-opening, authoritative look at American maritime history and the ways it helped shape the nation's history."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Glenda Riley
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0826307809
The first account of how and why pioneer women altered their self-images and their views of American Indians.
