| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This book explores the connections between geography and migration in relation to settlement development from the Sierra Nevada to California's north coast, focusing on the last half of the 1800s at various scales. It begins with settlers' individual-level movements and impacts, and then shifts to town creation at mid-level family and community scales, and ends with a large-scale synthesis of the interrelationships of population change, geography, and history in the larger northern California region."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1. The Scales of California Settlement History; Chapter 2. Frictional Distance, Migration, and the California Transformation; Chapter 3. From Movers and Shakers to Stayers and Builders in the Sierra Foothills; Chapter 4. County Pioneers and Their Many Migration Steps; Chapter 5. Migrations of the Greenwood, Boggs, and Winkler Families; Chapter 6. Mormons from Yerba Buena to Sutter's Mill; Chapter 7. Multigenerational Migration, Town Attractiveness, and Settlement Stability. |
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Chapter 8. Hyper-Rate Settlement Evolution and Devolution in the Sierra NevadaChapter 9. Historical Geography of Transportation and Development in Lake County; Chapter 10. Far-Off Frontiers Emerge as Fine Farms and Towns North of the Bay; Chapter 11. Integrating the San Francisco Region from the Pacific Coast to the Sierra Nevada; Acknowledgments; References; About the Author; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
California, Northern -- Discovery and exploration.
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California, Northern -- History -- 19th century.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- California, Northern.
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Land settlement -- California, Northern -- History -- 19th century.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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Discoveries in geography |
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Frontier and pioneer life |
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Land settlement |
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Northern California |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Otterstrom, Samuel. From California's gold fields to the Mendocino Coast. First edition. Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2017] 9781943859283 (DLC) 2016054335 |
| ISBN |
9780874174694 (electronic book) |
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0874174694 (electronic book) |
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9781943859283 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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