Avery, Benjamin Parke 1828-1875 creator text nyu New York Cambridge Hurd and Houghton The Riverside press 1878 monographic eng

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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. by Benjamin Parke Avery. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. No known restrictions on publication. n-us-ca California Description and travel Mines and mineral resources California Business California F866 .A94 rc 01000833 hdl:loc.gdc/calbk.022 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.022 No known restrictions on publication. DLC 810811 20260227111901.0 rc 01000833