CALIFORNIA AND THE NATION, 1850-1869

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Homestead Museum

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"CALIFORNIA AND THE NATION, 1850-1869"

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2005.579.1.1

Description

"CALIFORNIA AND THE NATION, 1850-1869," Joseph Ellison (Berkeley: University of California Press,) 1927. The work is subtitled "A Study of the Relations of a Frontier Community with the Federal Government and includes material on Mexican land grants, federal land grants, mineral lands, Indians, the civil fund and state mint, the vigilance committee of 1856 in San Francisco, communication and transportation, a Pacific republic movement, Civil War-era issues, and the matter of legal tender notes in the Civil War years. While the cover is badly worn and damaged and partially repaired and stabilized with library tape, the pages are generally clean and bright and the overall condition is poor.

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University of California Press, California--History--1850-1950

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