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William Hickman Dolman reminiscences
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Experiences and reminiscences of Raymond William Milnor
Manuscripts
In this manuscript, Milnor reminiscences about his life. He talks about his childhood in Iowa where he played around railroad tracks and attended a school with a graduating class of 14 students. He talks about his work with the railroads and trips he took. He talks briefly about his time in the war and time spent at Yellowstone Park on his journey to California. Milnor ends his reminiscences with several pages covering his life in southern California - his varying jobs, the many times his family moved around, his daughters' education, family vacations, his retirement, etc.
mssHM 73895
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Hickman, William Edward
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3 items: LAT editorials, "The end of the trail," 12/23/1927 ; "Make an example," 12/28/1927 ; "Give 'em what they want," 3/4/1928. The Times seemed to have determined guilt. "The sob-sister brigade may be expected to come forward with the usual pleas based on the prisoner's youth...Hickman is neither crazy nor a boy..."
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Reminiscences of California : an autograph manuscript
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Welsh wrote reminiscences of his journey to, and life in California in the 1880s and 90s. There is particular emphasis on citrus orchard management and labor in Southern California and a cattle drive or autumn round-up from the Rancho Los Cerritos. Also included are descriptions of cities and towns in Southern California encompassing people, geology, climate, flora and fauna. Excursions in and around Southern California are well described including trips to Long Beach, Santa Monica, Catalina Island and Death Valley.
mssHM 16371
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Reminiscences of a gold miner
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Fisk starts his reminiscences in 1850 when he left Illinois for California. He describes his overland journey in a party of 20 wagons. He mentions the Native Americans they passed (specifically the Utes and Otos), Fort Laramie, and how the group had to leave items behind to speed their pace. He also talks about Salt Lake City, buffalo herds, and the group's constant search for water. Fisk then describes arriving in Hangtown (Placerville), his experience mining on the American River and leaving California to mine in Colorado. He writes briefly about his time with the 2nd Iowa Regiment. He also discusses his decision to travel to Alaska to try his hand at gold mining one more time. Following the reminiscences are typescripts of several letters from Fisk to his sister written while on his journey to Alaska.
mssHM 68417
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Washington territory in the eighties: reminiscences
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In his reminiscences about his life in the Seattle area in the 1880s, Broomall talks in detail about his work at a sawmill, a barrel factory, mining in the Cascade mountains, an encounter with a bear, working as an axeman for the Northern Pacific Railway, the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, and several fellow miners, trackers, and railway men that became his close friends.
mssHM 80291
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Reminiscences
Manuscripts
The core of the Manuel H. Rodriguez papers are his thoughtful and informative reminiscences. There are over 20 narrations of his past experiences. They cover his service in the United States Army to his years as a student at the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote about the economic effects of the Great Depression in Los Angeles, where an overwhelming amount of men worked as an itinerant salesman to ordinary activities such as playing marbles. Rodriguez wrote, "I have enjoyed reminiscing about those years and the exercise of my memory has had therapeutic effects," Box 9 (16). Many of Rodriguez's reminiscences could be accessed on his son's website: Zòcalo.
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