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California, for health, pleasure, and residence : a book for travellers and settlers / by Charles Nordhoff.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--Description and travel.
- California.
- Urbanization--California.
- Urbanization.
- Real estate development--California.
- Real estate development.
- Agriculture--California.
- Agriculture.
- California--Commerce.
- Commerce.
- Travel.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schuyler, Robert L., 1947- (donor) (RBC copy)
- Crane, Fred A. (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- California, a book for travellers and settlers
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Brothers, 1875.
- Summary:
- Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) and his family came to America from Prussia when he was a boy and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. Winning a reputation as a journalist and writer on the sea, Nordhoff was managing editor of the New York Evening Post, 1861-1871. He spent 1872-1873 travelling to California and Hawaii, and returned east to become the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. He continued to visit California frequently and spent his last years in Coronado. California: for health, pleasure and residence (1873) was an extremely popular guidebook that persuaded many to settle in California. It opens with descriptions of the various routes available to the traveller to California and the visitor to Yosemite. Next come suggested points of interest; California agriculture (with hints to prospective settlers); and notes on the Southern California climate.
- Contents:
- The way out
- Sights by the way
- Salt Lake City
- The Central Pacific Railroad
- The tourist in California
- what to see, and how to see it
- The great sights of California
- hints to travellers
- "John"
- Gold-mining, with a decayed mining town
- Southern California for invalids
- The agricultural wealth of California
- a general view
- The Agricultural lands of California
- hints to settlers
- A January day in Los Angeles
- Farming in San Bernardino
- An old Californian rancho
- The Indians as laborers
- The Coast counties in February
- Semi-tropical fruits in Southern California
- Anaheim
- a successful colony
- with hints for other colonists
- Wheat farming in the San Joaquin Valley
- The Chinese as railroad builders
- a great stock-farmer
- The Tulare Lake
- cheap farms for the million
- Co-operative farming
- how irrigating ditches are made
- Beet sugar, silk, etc.
- Wine-growing in California
- some estimates of cost
- raisins
- A golden valley
- Sheep farming
- with a night around a camp-fire
- A California cattle rancho
- a rodeo
- peculiar customs of the Spanish Californians
- Southern California for consumptives
- Tables of temperature in Clarens (Switzerland), Aiken (Georgia) and San Bernardino and Anaheim (California)
- Latest improvements in the Yosemite Route.
- Notes:
- NUC: NN 0295319.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Professor Robert L. Schuyler.
- RBC copy has signature of Fred A. Crane on first leaf.
- RBC copy imperfect: spine torn, with one section missing.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901. California, for health, pleasure, and residence.
- OCLC:
- 7488878
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