Brigida Briones (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 4pp extract, printed in double columns, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XLI, No. 3, January, 1891. Interesting Old California. From introduction, regarding the first item, "The lady Maria Antonia Pico, who afterwards became the mother of General Manuel Castro and Don Juan B. Castro, was born in Monterey in 1802. She told to her children and grandchildren the following story of the arrival of the privateer Bouchard, who frightened all the Spanish settlers in 1818. The story is given here exactly as taken by me from the lips of an old Spanish woman in Castroville, who had often heard it related by Mrs. Castro, the mother of the general." Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. 1890-1891, 175pp, printed in double columns, illustrated with over 90 drawings, plus 4 maps including The Western Territories in the Forties Showing the Principal Routes of Exploration, The California Coast Under the Mexican Regime, Placer Regions of California in the Fifties with an inset of San Francisco Bay and Vicinity, and the Panama Route, and 24 portraits including John Bidwell, Father De Smet, General M. G. Vallejo, General John A. Sutter, Don Juan B. Castro, Don Manuel Castro, Pio Pico, who was Governor of California in 1845, General Andres Pico, Maria De Jesus Vallejo, or Sister Maria Teresa, Maria Antonia Lugo, who was the mother of General Vallejo, Dona Vallejo, born Francisca Benicia Carrillo, who was General Vallejo's widow, Kit Carson with facsimile autograph, Jacob P. Leese, Juan B. Alvarado who was Governor, 1836 - 1842, Manuel Micheltorena, who was Governor, 1842 - 1845, James W. Marshall, Azaria Smith and Henry W. Bigler, who were survivors of the party of discovery at Sutter's Mill, Samuel Brannan, who led a colony of Mormon's to San Francisco in July, 1846, Charles Preuss, topographer on the first two Fremont expeditions, Jim Bridger, Alexis Godey, Commander J. B. Montgomery, later Rear-Admiral, Thomas H. Benton, Jessie Benton Fremont, and George Bancroft, salvaged from a damaged copy of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 41. Specific pieces include The First Emigrant Train To California, by General Bidwell, Grizzly And Pioneer, by Shinn, The Making Of California, anonymous, Life In California Before The Gold Discovery, by Bidwell, Ranch And Mission Days In Alta, California, by Vallejo, Trading With The Americans, by Higuera, The Date Of The Discovery Of The Yosemite, by Pratt, Pioneer Spanish Families In California, by Shinn, The Missions Of Alta, California, by Doyle, A California Lion And A Pirate, by Castro, A Carnival Ball At Monterey In 1829, by Briones, A Letter From General Sutter, by Sutter, Fremont In The Conquest Of California, by Bidwell, The Discovery Of Gold In California, by Hittell, Marshall's Own Account Of The Gold Discovery, by Gillespie, Confirming The Gold Discovery, by Kemble, Resume Of Fremont's Expedition, by M. N. O., The Origin Of The Fremont Explorations, by Jessie Benton Fremont, Rough Times In Rough Places, by McGehee, Montgomery And Fremont, by Royce, Three Gold- Dust Stories, by Marshall, To California by Panama in 1849, by Pratt, The Conquest Of California, by John Charles Fremont, The Official Policy For The Acquisition Of California, anonymous, Hardships Of The Isthmus in 1849, by Ferris, and Spanish Jealousy Of Vancouver, by Doyle. Maps by Jacob Swells, W. Taber, George Wharton Edwards, O. Toasperm, A. Brennan, V. Perard, G. D. F. Brush, Frederick Remington, A. Lambourne, and from photographs by Lieut. Harris. Set includes a contents page, and is housed in two mylar report covers. This is a tremendous set of Californiana / Western Americana, and, surprisingly, never elsewhere published in its entirety.