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Book/Printed Material Life by land and sea.

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Title

  • Life by land and sea.

Summary

  • Born in Sag Harbor, Long Island, Prentice Mulford (1834-1891) sailed to San Francisco on a clipper in 1856 and remained for sixteen years. He left for a long tour of Europe in 1872 and then settled in New York City where he became known as a comic lecturer and author of poems and essays and a columnist for the New York Daily Graphic (a serial), 1875-1881. He founded the popular philosophy known as "New Thought." Life by land and sea (1889) contains Mulford's adventures at sea and in the West, 1856-1872: life on a clipper and a California coastal schooner hunting whales and seals, gold prospecting in Tuolumne County, accounts of camp life and experiences as a school teacher and minor local politican, copper mining in Stanislaus County, and career as journalist for the San Francisco Golden Era.

Names

  • Mulford, Prentice, 1834-1891.

Created / Published

  • New York, F.J. Needham, 1889.

Headings

  • -  Law--Political aspects--California
  • -  Mines and mineral resources--California

Notes

  • -  At head of title: Prentice Mulford's story.

Medium

  • iv, [5]-299 p. 20 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • CT275.M7 A2 1889

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 07030060

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:

Mulford, Prentice. Life by Land and Sea. New York, F.J. Needham, 1889. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/07030060/.

APA citation style:

Mulford, P. (1889) Life by Land and Sea. New York, F.J. Needham. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/07030060/.

MLA citation style:

Mulford, Prentice. Life by Land and Sea. New York, F.J. Needham, 1889. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/07030060/>.