Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers
Award-winning historian Richard Dillon deals up intriguing vignettes on sixty-three men and women who helped shaped California into the colorful state that it is. Dillon, whose work on Meriwether Lewis has appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, presents these California Pioneers in short, lively and informative sketches that capture the special qualities of their unusual and stimulating lives. Some were well-known public figures even in their own time, and some are still virtually unknown today. They all exhibited a daring and courage which put them far above the commonplace. Subjects include: Grizzly Addams, Lucky Baldwin, Black Bart, Fong Ching (alias Little Pete), Henry George, Ishi, Captain Jack, James King of William, Jack London, Ng Poon Chew, Emperor Norton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Isaac Van Nuys, Tiburcio Vasquez and many more.
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Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers
Award-winning historian Richard Dillon deals up intriguing vignettes on sixty-three men and women who helped shaped California into the colorful state that it is. Dillon, whose work on Meriwether Lewis has appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, presents these California Pioneers in short, lively and informative sketches that capture the special qualities of their unusual and stimulating lives. Some were well-known public figures even in their own time, and some are still virtually unknown today. They all exhibited a daring and courage which put them far above the commonplace. Subjects include: Grizzly Addams, Lucky Baldwin, Black Bart, Fong Ching (alias Little Pete), Henry George, Ishi, Captain Jack, James King of William, Jack London, Ng Poon Chew, Emperor Norton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Isaac Van Nuys, Tiburcio Vasquez and many more.
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Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers

Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers

by Richard H. Dillon
Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers

Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers

by Richard H. Dillon

Overview

Award-winning historian Richard Dillon deals up intriguing vignettes on sixty-three men and women who helped shaped California into the colorful state that it is. Dillon, whose work on Meriwether Lewis has appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, presents these California Pioneers in short, lively and informative sketches that capture the special qualities of their unusual and stimulating lives. Some were well-known public figures even in their own time, and some are still virtually unknown today. They all exhibited a daring and courage which put them far above the commonplace. Subjects include: Grizzly Addams, Lucky Baldwin, Black Bart, Fong Ching (alias Little Pete), Henry George, Ishi, Captain Jack, James King of William, Jack London, Ng Poon Chew, Emperor Norton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Isaac Van Nuys, Tiburcio Vasquez and many more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781618097057
Publisher: Write Thought, The
Publication date: 09/01/2013
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 5.98(h) x 0.92(d)
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