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California Sketches New And Old

California Sketches New And Old

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Number of Chapters: 57

Length: 11 hours and 13 minutes

Language: English

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)

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