Word: californiana
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...department of "Californiana" Professor Royce contributes some new documents on the Bear Flag affair taken from the private papers of Commander John B. Montgomery of the Portsmouth, stationed at San Fracnisco during the conquest of California...
...papers are continued with articles on "Fremont in the Conquest of California" by General John Bidwell, an old pioneer of '41, who has already contributed a couple of papers to the same series; and on "The Discovery of Gold in California," by John S. Hittell. In the department of Californiana there is also an account of the gold discovery by James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold at Sutter's Mill, and a portrait is given of him in Mr. Hittell's article...
...just at present, as ever it did for war articles in the days of its Civil War frenzy. In the January number Charles W. Shinn writes of "Pioneer Spanish Families in California;" John T. Doyle, on the "Missions of Alta California," and there is also a flourishing department of "Californiana." The California articles, as well as one on the old homesteads along the James, by Charles Washington Coleman, are accompanied by most artistic and picturesque illustrations. A foreigner seeing them must wonder why Americans can complain at the lack of picturesqueness on their continent...
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