TY - BOOK AU - Avery,Benjamin Parke TI - Californian pictures in prose and verse, AV - F866 .A94 PY - 1878/// CY - New York, Cambridge PB - Hurd and Houghton, The Riverside press KW - Mines and mineral resources KW - California KW - Business KW - Description and travel N1 - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.022 ER -