California : its history and romance /

This elaborately illustrated text helps explain the alluring nature of California to early settlers while providing historical background. The work includes many reasons to venture there, not the just the possibilities of wealth and grandeur that most flocked to the region for.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McGroarty, John Steven, 1862-1944
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles : Grafton Publishing Company, 1911.
Series:	California Gold Rush anthology. BiblioBoard Core module.
Subjects:	California > History. San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856. Californie > Histoire. San Francisco (Calif.) HISTORY > General. California. Geschichte History.
Online Access:	http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00171386640 Biblioboard (Restricted to University of Ottawa) View this content on BiblioBoard. Thumbnail cover image

Description
Summary:	This elaborately illustrated text helps explain the alluring nature of California to early settlers while providing historical background. The work includes many reasons to venture there, not the just the possibilities of wealth and grandeur that most flocked to the region for.
Item Description:	"Muster roll of the 'Vigilantes'": pages [367]-369. Includes presentation page at front of volume and facsimile signatures of "patrons of the book" at end of volume.
Physical Description:	393 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm. Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.