Miscellaneous book reviews
The 49'ers
California A Pleasure Trip from
Gotham to the Golden Gate (1877)
Imperfect union (the Fremonts)
A Baggage Car with Lace Curtains
30 Years Over Donner
Bud and Me
Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse 1878
50 Years of Flight - Ski Jumping 1900-50
SnowBound - Legendary Winters...
Assembling California
Meadow Lake Gold Town
Twenty Miles from a Match
Sierra Stories
Walking Through Donner Summit History
Tahoe - A Visual History
Lost Ski Areas of Tahoe and Donner
From Longboards to the Olympics
What I Saw in California (1846)
Sierra Crossing First Roads to California
Cavalry Life in Tent & Field
(1894 about an army wife 1868-1885)
Includes a trip on the stage from Cisco
over Donner Summit in 1868)
Cavalry Life Cisco stage excerpt
Carleton E. Watkins - The Complete
Mammoth Photographs
Carleton Watkins Making the West American
Amateur Emigrant - Rob't Louis Stevenson
Scotty Allen, King of the Dog Team Drivers
Gold, Men and Dogs auto bio of Scotty Allan
The Inventor and the Tycoon (Eadweard Muybridge)
River of Shadows - Muybridge
Around the World on a Wheel - 1899 and across the Sierra
Around the United States by Bicycle - 1904
(and across Donner Summit)
A Broken Propeller - 1st Transc. Air Race
Pen Knife Sktetches or Chips of the Old Block, 1853
Old Block's Sketch Book, 1857
Our New West, 1869
(19th CenturyTravelogue and RR booster
The New West 1867-68
Marvels of the New West, 1888
The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Great Air Race (1919)
Around the World on Wheel
s
Around the World By Bicycle, 1884
The first trip over Donner Summit, across
the Continent and around the world by bikc.
Donner Pass and Those Who Crossed It
Storm George R. Stewart
10,000 Miles by Land and Sea (1876) -
this is two excerpts about the
Donner Party.
Challenging the Montains the Life and Times of Wendell T. Robie
Hellacious California
Around the World - 3 book reviews about Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's trips around the world in 1890
The Ditches of Nevada City
How to Survive History
John A Snowshoe Thompson