California Sketches New And Old

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Modern (19th C), Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

Authors: Oscar Penn Fitzgerald In Year : 1895

Book Language: English

Audiobook: California Sketches New And Old

My First Sunday In The Mines
Cissaha
Lost On Table Mountain
Fulton
The Fatal Twist
Stranded
Lockley
An Interview
Father Cox
The Ethics Of Grizzly Hunting
Stewart
A Mendocino Murder
My First California Camp Meeting
The Tragedy At Algerine
The Blue Lakes
Old Tuolunme
Ben
A Youthful Desperado
North Beach, San Francisco
My Mining Speculation
Dick
The Diggers
Father Fisher
Th California Madhouse
The Reblooming
San Quentin
Tod Robinson
Jack White
Camilla Cain
Corraled
The Rabbi
Ah Lee
Coela Vista
The Emperor Norton
Buffalo Jones
Suicide In California
Mike Reese
Uncle Nolan
Old Man Lowry
The California Politician
Bishop Kavanaugh In California
A Day
California Traits
Father Acolti
California Weddings
How The Money Came
Having Some Fun
At The End
A Woman Of The Early Days
Doctor Eleazar Thomas
Lone Mountain
Newton
Climate Of California
After The Storm
Sanders
Winter Blossomed
A Virginian In California

Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps, lost clergymen, freed slaves, Northern sympathizers, Southern sympathizers, soldiers…. Oscar Penn Fitzgerald was a Methodist clergyman, journalist and educator. He served as California Superintendent of Public Instruction (1867–1871). His California Sketches were published in two series (1879 and 1881) and a consolidated volume (1895). This reading is based on the consolidated volume (Sections 1-48) with the addition of the sketches from the first books that were omitted in the last one (First, Sections 49-50; Second, Sections 51-57). The listener is alerted that the author exhibits the very common nineteenth century white man’s low opinion of Native Americans. The sketches are of church and nonchurch folk. Even those not interested in religious matters may be entertained by this view into the psychology and culture of early Californians, as well as the challenges and rewards of the land and climate themselves. (Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales)