The Gold Chain: A California Family Sagacalifornia history, 1987 - 432 էջ An account of branches of the Lee, Weinshank, and Phelan families who lived in California and intermarried beginning in the 1840s. The Lee family, beginning with Henry Lee who came from England in 1848, were circus performers. |
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Էջ 24 - ... and protected by a deep, wet ditch, and armed with seven large pieces. This hacienda is at the commencement of the causeway leading to the western gate of the city, and had to be passed before getting on the road. About three hundred yards in rear of this work another field-work had been built where a...
Էջ 54 - With so much to do, and so little time in which to do it, few Americans stopped long enough to understand what was being done.
Էջ 26 - His short but emphatic addresses had a profound effect on the men. As he passed a portion of the Rifle Regiment, he returned their salute, saying with energy and emphasis — " Brave Rifles ! Veterans ! You have been baptized in fire and blood, and have come out steel...
Էջ 97 - ... There were lakes of gold, lost to view and hard to find. The color of gold was always to be had by small effort. Exhilaration — possession — movement — gold, seldom to keep but always to spend — were everywhere. Over a high winding road which looked as though it were on a rim of spacious color, with rifts of copper pink in the hills beyond deep valleys, purple and lavender to the north, lay the rousing camp of Rough and Ready...
Էջ 150 - ... checked them. A round of grape was then fired upon them, and they scattered. A charge was made simultaneously with this on our rear, with about the same success. We all considered this as the beginning of the fight, but it was the end of it. The Californians, the most expert horsemen in the world, stripped the dead horses on the field, without dismounting, and carried off most of their saddles, bridles, and all their dead and wounded on horseback to the hills to the right.
Էջ 203 - They often tossed displeasing actors in blankets. A cracking shot was likely to dust the heels of an unlucky performer as he left town. A company of three young boys who crossed the track of the Metropolitan Company was met by raucous laughter as they entered one camp. They persisted in making ready for their entertainment, pasted up the cracks in a rough little dressing-room with newspapers, stuck candles in bottles in...
Էջ 21 - The engineers, who had directed the opening, led the way and the troops followed. Artillery was let down the steep slopes by hand, the men engaged attaching a strong rope to the rear axle and letting the guns down, a piece at a time, while the men at the ropes kept their ground on top, paying out gradually, while a few at the front directed the course of the piece. In like manner the guns were drawn by hand up the opposite slopes.
Էջ 107 - ... barley. Eureka! Oh how my heart beat! I sat still and looked at it some minutes before I touched it, greedily drinking in the pleasure of gazing upon gold that was in my very grasp and feeling a sort of independent bravado in allowing it to remain there. When my eyes were sufficiently feasted, I scooped it out with the point of my knife and an iron spoon, and, placing it in my pan, ran home with it very much delighted. I weighed it, and found that my first day's labor in the mines had made me...
Էջ 90 - ... which Rich Bar is the nucleus— never existed; for you know how proverbially wearing it is to the nerves of manhood, to be entirely without either occupation or amusement; and that has been pre-eminently the case during the present month. Imagine a company of enterprising and excitable young men, settled upon a sandy level, about as large as a poor widow's potato patch...
Էջ 117 - By mid-January the thing was almost finished. To carry away the river water after it had turned the wheel, and to dump it downstream, they built a long tailrace. It was Marshall's custom to open the sluice gate at the lower end of this race every night so as to let the water wash out all the accumulated sand and stones.