Diary of a physician in California; : being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc

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  California as I saw it : pencillings by the way of its gold and gold diggers! and incidents of travel by land and water

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  Dr. William S. McCollum (1807/1808-1882) was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Niagara County, New York. He went to California in 1849, returned to New York the following year and then paid a second visit to California as a physician for the Panama Railroad Company. California as I saw it (1960) reprints McCollum's 1850 book describing his first visit to the West: San Francisco in 1849, a journey to Stockton and the Southern Mines and to Sacramento and the Northern Mines, prospecting near Jacksonville, and medical practice in Stockton and San Francisco. After describing his return voyage east via Panama, McCollum closes with advice and reflections on the law of the mines, Native Americans, the life of women in California, etc. The book's Appendix include letters written from Panama by H.W. Hecox, McCollum's fellow passenger on the voyage to the Isthmus, February-March 1849. Hecox was so disheartened by his wait for passage to California that he returned to the United States without ever seeing the Pacific Ocean.

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  The minds and nerves of soldiers : memory turns back to experiences of 1917-1918-1919: manuscript

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  This is a typed manuscript copy, in two volumes, of Hanes' book which was published in 1941 by the Login Press in Pasadena, California. In it, Hanes records his personal and professional experiences serving as a medical officer during World War I. His personal war narrative includes: the transition from civilian to military life, and from his practice as a private physician to a United States Army neuropsychiatrist; his voyage by boat, foot, and train from the US to his final destination at a military hospital in Vichy, France; military life both on US and French bases, and an account of his experience living in wartime France; his reflections upon the causes and consequences of the war, and feelings about Armistice Day celebrations.

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  Life history of George H. Rothrock [microform]: 1924

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  Microfilm of a typescript of George H. Rothrock's autobiography, written in Glendale, California, in 1924. Rothrock describes his childhood, including the death of his infant brother by fire; his father's trips to California in the early 1850s; of traveling to California by way of Aspinwall and crossing the Isthmus of Panama in 1854; of sailing to Sacramento and arriving in Marysville; and of his father's vineyard, orchard, and cattle ranch in Marysville. Much of the account recalls Rothrock's many travels throughout California, Nevada, and Arizona while he worked as a miner (including at the Soledad Mine and in the Mesquite Mining District), sheep and cattle herder, and teamster. He also describes trouble with Indians at Fort Apache in 1881, being placed in charge of the head of the Arizona Canal in 1905; of moving to a ranch in Lehi in 1915; and of settling in San Diego in 1920.

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