Philosopher Pickett : the life and writings of Charles Edward Pickett, esq., of Virginia, who came overland to the Pacific Coast in 1842-43 and for forty years waged war with pen and pamphlet against all manner of public abuses in Oregon and California; including alo unpublished letters written by him from Yerba Buena at the time of the conquest of California by the United States in 1846-47 /