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The best land under heaven : the Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny / Michael Wallis

Title:: Donner Party in the age of Manifest Destiny

Author:: Wallis, Michael 1945- Search this

Physical description:: xx, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Type:: Books; History

Place:: California; West (U.S.); Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)

Date:: 2017; 19th century

Topic:: Donner Party Search this; Pioneers--History Search this; Overland journeys to the Pacific Search this; Frontier and pioneer life Search this; History Search this

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:siris_sil_1080304

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Sierra crossing : first roads to California / Thomas Frederick Howard

Author:: Howard, Thomas Frederick 1946- Search this

Physical description:: ix, 218 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm

Type:: Books

Place:: Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)

Date:: 1998; C1998; 19th century

Topic:: Roads--History Search this; Overland journeys to the Pacific Search this; Description and travel Search this

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:siris_sil_537385

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Roaring camp : the social world of the California Gold Rush / Susan Lee Johnson

Author:: Johnson, Susan Lee Search this

Physical description:: 464 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Type:: Books

Place:: Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); California

Date:: 2000; C2000; 19th century

Topic:: Mining camps--History Search this; Gold discoveries Search this; Social aspects Search this; Social life and customs Search this; Ethnic relations Search this

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:siris_sil_592153

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From exploration to conservation : picturing the Sierra Nevada / major sponsorship provided by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation ; additional sponsors include the Nell J. Redfield Foundation ... [et al.]

Title:: Picturing the Sierra Nevada

Author:: David & Lucile Packard Foundation Search this; Nell J. Redfield Foundation Search this; Nevada Museum of Art Search this; Wilderness Society (U.S.) Search this

Physical description:: 192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm

Type:: Exhibitions

Place:: Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)

Date:: 1998; 20th century; 19th century

Topic:: Art, American Search this; In art Search this; Exhibitions Search this

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:: edanmdm:siris_sil_596653

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