The Negro Trail Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the Diaries, Old Papers, and Conversations of Old Pioneers in the State of California ... |
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1 page matching On a wild, stormy night we were driven into an ice-drift at Shanter Bay, and when daylight came we found ourselves caught by ice on every side. ... There was nothing in the world we could do but wait for the ice-fields to break up, and for eight days we lay wedged in the drift while the tides carried us back and forth, ever threatening to carry us on rocks or dash us on the shore.” Finally the ice was carried out to the open sea and the drift released the whaler. in this book
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Contents
ForewordCharlotte A Bass Managing Editor of the California Eagle Los Angeles | 18 |
End of the Spanish Rule in California | 26 |
Chapter rV Bear Flag Party | 48 |
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| Title | The Negro Trail Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the Diaries, Old Papers, and Conversations of Old Pioneers in the State of California ... Issue 17 of Black biographical dictionaries 1790-1950 |
| Author | Delilah Leontium Beasley |
| Contributor | Bancroft Library |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Times Mirror printing and binding house, 1919 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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