01747cam a22003251 4500 rc 01000849 DLC 20260227111901.0 cr ||||||||||| 821217s1884 stkbf 000 0 eng rc 01000849 DLC CarP DLC n-us-ca F866 .G66 Gordon Cumming, C. F. (Constance Frederica), 1837-1924. Granite crags; by C.F. Gordon Cumming ... Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons, 1884. viii p., 1 l., 384 p. front., plates, fold. map. 21 cm. Travels in California. Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837-1924) was an Englishwoman who sailed from Tahiti to San Francisco in April 1878 and remained in California for five months. Granite crags (1884) is a volume of her travel letters detailing visits to San Rafael, the redwood forsets, the San Joaquín and Sacramento Valleys, Yosemite, Oakland, and Tulare Lake. She evinces great interest in hydraulic mining operations and quartz mining near Sonora and the Stanislaus River and gives special attention to the region's botany and agriculture as well as recounting tales of the Gold Rush and San Francisco in the lawless 1850s. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. No known restrictions on publication. California Description and travel. Yosemite Valley (Calif.) Law Political aspects California. Mines and mineral resources California. Agriculture California. Business California. calbk 127 t http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.127 51930 51930