San Francisco: mission to metropolis
- Bib ID:
- 2308030
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lewis, Oscar, 1893-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Berkeley, Calif. : Howell-North Books, 1966
- ix, 274 p. : illus., facsims., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: I. Discovery and Settlement V. The Fifties
- 1. The Elusive Bay 1 1. The Changing Shoreline 79
- 2. Juan Bautista de Anza 7 2. By Steamer and Stagecoach 87
- 3. Mission and Presidio 9 3. Frontier Journalism 92
- 4. Indian Tribes 12 4. Theaters and Beer Gardens 94
- 5. Native Handicrafts 14 5. The "Limantour Tax" 104
- 6. A Neglected Outpost 16
- VI. The Sixties
- II. Yerba Buena 1. The Decade Opens 107
- 1. Frontier Village 20 2. Silver Rebuilds a City 110
- 2. Pioneer Traders 23 3. Horsecars and Steam Dummies. 115
- 3. The Vioget Survey 25 4. Rails Span the Continent 121
- 4. California in Transition 28 5. The Sanitary Fund 126
- 5. Bear Flag Revolt 31 6. Civil War Days 129
- 6. The Yankees Take Over 35
- VII. The Seventies
- III. Discovered-Goldl 1. The "Discontented Decade". 135
- 1. Land Titles 39 2. Dennis Kearney's Sandlotters..141
- 2. Yerba Buena Becomes 3. Free Lunches and Other
- San Francisco 41 Amenities 144
- 3. 1847 46 4. Speculation 147
- 4. "Gold on the American River!". 48 5. Andrew Hallidie's Invention 154
- 5. The Rush Begins 52 6. Growth 157
- 6. Boom Town 53
- VIII. Turn of the Century
- IV. The Struggle for Order 1. Railroads and Politics 166
- 1. Hounds and Sydney Ducks 58 2. Strife on the Waterfront 168
- 2. A Citizens' Army 61 3. "Blind Boss" Buckley 170
- 3. A Sequence of Fires 64 4. The Burnham Plan 172
- 4. Vigilantes Again 70 5. A Gold Rush and a War 179
- 5. Mr. Coleman's "White Elephant" 76 6. The Rise of Abe Ruef 181
- IX. Nineteen Hundred and Six XI. The Twenties, Thirties and Forties
- 1. April 18th 185 1. Expansion 226
- 2. A City Destroyed 191 2. Hetch Hetchy 229
- 3. Relief Measures 193 3. The City Builds an Airport 233
- 4. "An' it's doin' the both of 4. Bridging the Bay 235
- us good..." 196 5. Treasure Island 239
- 5. Reconstruction 200 6. World War II and the United
- 6. Bubonic Plague 203 Nations Conference 241
- X. Growing Pains XII. The Contemporary Scene
- 1. The Graft Trials 207 1. The City in Mid-Century 245
- 2. End of an Era 210 2. Urban Renewal 250
- 3. Water from the Sierra 214 3. Looking Ahead 256
- 4. The "Muni" Railway 216 Bibliography 261
- . , e n 'y ? Bibliography 261
- 5. "The Evanescent City" 221
- 6. Mooney and Billings 223 Index 265.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 261-263.
- Subject:
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- History
- Copyright:
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- Until 2063 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1993
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- Publication date:
- 1966
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