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Book/Printed Material Letters from the Pacific slope; or First impressions.

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Title

  • Letters from the Pacific slope; or First impressions.

Summary

  • Harvey Rice (1800-1891), a Cleveland lawyer and newspaper publisher, and his wife traveled by rail to California in 1869. Letters from the Pacific slope (1870) contains Rice's account of that journey, broken by side trips to Salt Lake City, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe. Spending nearly a month in and near San Francisco, the Rices sail south to San Pedro and Los Angeles with a stop at Santa Barbara. They visit ranches, vineyards, and orchards in the neighborhood.

Names

  • Rice, Harvey, 1800-1891.

Created / Published

  • New York, D. Appleton & company, 1870.

Headings

  • -  California--Description and travel
  • -  West (U.S.)--Description and travel
  • -  Agriculture--California

Medium

  • iv, [5]-135 p. 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F866 .R49

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05030358

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf
  • online text

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"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900.

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Chicago citation style:

Rice, Harvey. Letters from the Pacific slope; or First impressions. New York, D. Appleton & company, 1870. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/05030358/.

APA citation style:

Rice, H. (1870) Letters from the Pacific slope; or First impressions. New York, D. Appleton & company. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/05030358/.

MLA citation style:

Rice, Harvey. Letters from the Pacific slope; or First impressions. New York, D. Appleton & company, 1870. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/05030358/>.