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San Francisco, 1846-1856
From Hamlet to City
Roger W. Lotchin
Back in print with a new introduction by the author, this is the classic study of America's most admired instant city, from its days as a sleepy Mexican village, through the Gold Rush and into its establishment as a major international port. Roger Lotchin examines the urbanizing influences in San Francisco and compares these to other urban centers, doing so against a diverse backdrop of vigilantes, opium dens, and other unforgettable institutions.


Port O' Gold
A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts

Louis J. Stellman
After briefly trying pharmacy, then telegraphy, Stellman settled down at the turn of the century as a Los Angeles newspaperman. In 1902 he moved to San Francisco and worked as a reporter, then an editor, for the News. He later became an editorial and feature writer for the Bulletin. He wrote books and articles on the side and became a serious photographer. Port O' Gold is the story of San Francisco, a history with a fiction thread to string its episodes upon.

Patrick and Thomas arrived on the SS Independence
July 12, 1852

James Duval Phelan, born in San Francisco (April 20, 1861; died August 7, 1930), was the son of an Irish-born Forty-Niner who had become a San Francisco millionaire.

James Phelan was educated at St. Ignatius High School and graduated from the University of San Francisco in 1881. He went on to obtain a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

James Duval Phelan was elected mayor for three terms beginning in 1897 . . . without any previous political experience.

Following the earthquake of 1906, Phelan was President of the Red Cross Funds and designed by President Theodore Roosevelt as custodian of the Relief Funds. He also tried to relocate Chinatown to Hunter's Point.

He was also United States Senator in 1913 and served one six-year term.

Address by Honorable James D. Phelan, United States Senator from California, on the United States Government and the War Situation (1917)

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because Alibris believes this work is culturally important, they have made it available as part of their commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!


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