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Author Otterstrom, Samuel, author

Title From California's gold fields to the Mendocino Coast : a settlement history across time and place / Samuel M. Otterstrom
Published Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2017]

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Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1. The Scales of California Settlement History; Chapter 2. Frictional Distance, Migration, and the California Transformation; Chapter 3. From Movers and Shakers to Stayers and Builders in the Sierra Foothills; Chapter 4. County Pioneers and Their Many Migration Steps; Chapter 5. Migrations of the Greenwood, Boggs, and Winkler Families; Chapter 6. Mormons from Yerba Buena to Sutter's Mill; Chapter 7. Multigenerational Migration, Town Attractiveness, and Settlement Stability
Chapter 8. Hyper-Rate Settlement Evolution and Devolution in the Sierra NevadaChapter 9. Historical Geography of Transportation and Development in Lake County; Chapter 10. Far-Off Frontiers Emerge as Fine Farms and Towns North of the Bay; Chapter 11. Integrating the San Francisco Region from the Pacific Coast to the Sierra Nevada; Acknowledgments; References; About the Author; Index
Summary "This book explores the connections between geography and migration in relation to settlement development from the Sierra Nevada to California's north coast, focusing on the last half of the 1800s at various scales. It begins with settlers' individual-level movements and impacts, and then shifts to town creation at mid-level family and community scales, and ends with a large-scale synthesis of the interrelationships of population change, geography, and history in the larger northern California region."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2017)
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- California, Northern
Land settlement -- California, Northern -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Discoveries in geography
Frontier and pioneer life
Land settlement
SUBJECT California, Northern -- Discovery and exploration
California, Northern -- History -- 19th century
Subject Northern California
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016055116
ISBN 9780874174694
0874174694