01691cam a22002771 4500 rc 01000833 DLC 20260227111901.0 cr ||||||||||| 810811s1878 nyuaf 000 0 eng rc 01000833 DLC CarP DLC n-us-ca F866 .A94 Avery, Benjamin Parke, 1828-1875. Californian pictures in prose and verse, by Benjamin Parke Avery. New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press, 1878. vi, [7]-344 p. front., illus., plates. 23 cm. New York journalist Benjamin Parke Avery (1828-1875) emigrated to California and became part owner of the Marysville Appeal in the 1850s and later published a newspaper in San Francisco and served as state printer. Californian pictures in prose and verse (1878) contains his "word-sketches," which are largely confined to California scenery, although some picture Native Americans and miners whom he knew when he prospected on the Trinity River in 1850 as well as the city of San Francisco. Most of the book is devoted to poems and essays dealing with mountains of the Coast Range, the Sierra Nevadas, and the Santa Cruz range and their passes and lakes; Yosemite, upper Sacramento Valley, Mount Shasta, and the geysers. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. No known restrictions on publication. California Description and travel. Mines and mineral resources California. Business California. calbk 022 t http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.022 51926 51926