The Army Surveys Of Gold Rush California: Reports Of Topographical Engineers, 1849–1851

Collected and reproduced here for the first time, these journals and maps offer a new and unique perspective on California in the mid-nineteenth century. Derby's reports and journals appear alongside those of Robert Stockton Williamson, William H. Warner, Edward O. C. Ord, Nathaniel Lyon, Henry Walton Wessells, and Erasmus Darwin Keyes. These documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on Native and white populations.

• | Author: George Horatio Derby
• | Publisher: The Arthur H. Clark Company
• | Publication Date: Apr 06, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 087062430X
• | ISBN-13: 9780870624308