The Sabbath on the Overland Trail to California

1990 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winton U. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi River ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Westward Movement ◽  
Overland Trail

The westward movement carried Americans to the banks of the Mississippi River by 1840, and in the following decade hardy pioneers began crossing the plains and mountains to settle on the Pacific coast. Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill near present-day Sacramento on 24 January 1848, and the ensuing gold rush created a spectacle such as the world had never seen before.

Studies on the Helminth Fauna of Japan Part 57. Nematodes of Fishes, III

1961 ◽  
Vol 35 (S1) ◽  
pp. 217-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satyu Yamaguti
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Sea Of Japan ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Helminth Fauna ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Inland Sea Of Japan ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Marine Laboratory

It is my greatest pleasure and honour to contribute a part of the series of my studies on the helminth fauna of Japan in honour of Professor R. T. Leiper, one of the most distinguished helminthologists in the world. The material on which the present paper is based was collected at the Tamano Marine Laboratory of Okayama University on the Inland Sea of Japan except for a new species of Raphidascaroides which was taken by Mr. T. Yamamoto at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University, on the Pacific coast of Wakayama Prefecture. Acknowledgments are due to the staff of the Tamano Marine Laboratory and also to Mr. Yamamoto for their generous supply of the material.

Friend on the American Frontier

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Emmett Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
American Frontier ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Returning Home

This chapter asks how an ordinary Quaker not involved in the abolition campaign might have considered the matter of slavery and answers this by reading the memoir of Charles Pancoast, A Quaker Forty-Niner: The Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American Frontier. Pancoast was a Philadelphian Quaker whose time on the frontier in the 1840s and 1850s was marked by a cautious response to the problem of slavery. Most of his account in details his own adventures and fortune-seeking in the Midwest and the Pacific Coast. Failing as a drugstore entrepreneur in Missouri, Pancoast spent time owning and operating a steamship on the Missouri River, and eventually found himself at work and seeking his fortune in business among the gold rush miners of California. In all, young Pancoast spent 14 years afoot in the hinterlands and byways of Western America, before returning home to settle in Philadelphia in 1854 at the age of thirty-six.

Pilgrims at the Golden Gate: Christian Scientists on the Pacific Coast, 1880––1915

2003 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Swensen
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Golden Gate ◽  
Christian Science ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Evidence

There has never been a social history of Christian Science, a distinctive and controversial new religious group that emphasized metaphysical healing. The group appeared in the United States in the 1870s and 1880s under the leadership of Mary Baker Eddy. This article examines the early rapid growth of Christian Science on the Pacific Coast, for the religion flourished to a greater degree in this health- conscious and socially fluid region than in any other section of the world. Analysis of the occupations of more than 1,000 members and spouses of six Christian Science churches in California, Oregon, and Washington for the years 1905-1907 provides detailed conclusions at variance with previous conjecture. The new evidence shows that Christian Scientists on the Pacific Coast were an ethnically homogeneous, uprooted, and energetic lot from all social levels, with a surprisingly large contingent from the working classes.

scholarly journals National Parks in Colombia

Oryx ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 441-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Hunsaker
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Peace Corps ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Hunting Regulations ◽  
National Park System ◽  
Vast Range

Colombia has one of the largest bird faunas in the world – over 1550 species, over 300 mammals, including the endangered spectacled bear and mountain tapir, 350 reptiles and over 1000 fish, and a vast range of habitats, from the tropical rain forest of the Pacific coast and lowland swamps to the spectacular peaks of the high Andes, 20,000 feet and more. In recent years Colombia has set aside over 3½ million acres for national parks and reserves, which are described here by Dr Hunsaker, Conservation Co-ordinator with INDERENA (the Government department concerned) for the Peace-Corps-Smithsonian Program in Bogotá. Colombia's conservation efforts began in 1919 with the passing of the first laws protecting the fauna and flora. In 1941 the Government introduced hunting regulations, and in 1948 the first biological reserve, La Macarena, was set aside. A law passed in 1954 made the condor the first fully protected species. Since then government, universities and interested people have worked to coordinate, in so far as possible, the national park system, the wildlife service and university projects to protect wilderness and wildlife in this extremely critical region of South America.

scholarly journals The role of asperities in seismicity frequency-magnitude relations using the TREMOL v0.1.0. The case of the Guerrero-Oaxaca subduction zone, México

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisol Monterrubio-Velasco ◽  
F. Ramón Zúñiga ◽  
Armando Aguilar-Meléndez ◽  
Otilio Rojas ◽  
Quetzalcóatl Rodríguez-Pérez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subduction Zone ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Earthquake Model ◽  
Frequency Magnitude

Abstract. Seismicity and magnitude distributions are fundamental for any type of seismic hazard analysis. The Mexican subduction zone along the Pacific Coast is one of the most active seismic zones in the world. Some peculiar characteristics of the seismicity have been observed for a subregion of the subduction regime, which has been named SUB3 in a recent seismotectonic regionalization of the country, suggesting that the observed simplicity of this source arises from the rupturing of single asperities. In this work, we numerically test this hypothesis using the TREMOL (sThochastic Rupture Earthquake MOdeL) v0.1.0 code. As test cases, we choose four of the most significant events (6.5 

scholarly journals Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110522
Author(s):  
Carolina Domínguez-Guzmán ◽  
Andres Verzijl ◽  
Margreet Zwarteveen ◽  
Annemarie Mol
Keyword(s):  
Catchment Area ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Managerial Style ◽  
Mining Companies ◽  
The Andes ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The World ◽  
Northern Peru

The term control used to be central to the scholarship on modern water management. More recently, however, scholars have remarked that the world is too unstable and capricious for control to ever fully succeed. They propose that technologically facilitating water to flow depends instead on care. Building on this, we here propose that holding on to a single catch-all theoretical concept, even if it is ‘care’, does not suffice. Instead, analytical terms are better adapted – and re-adapted to local specificities. To exemplify this, we here present the case of the Huallabamba, a canal that makes horticulture possible in the arid valley of Motupe on the Pacific coast of northern Peru. In this case, while ‘control’ was hard to find, ‘care’ took different forms: the tinkering that compensates for the not-quite-modern character of the infrastructures; the adaptive managerial style necessary given the absence of information; the watchful, hands-on cuidar of the men who walk along the canal high up in the Andes, repairing what is broken, cautious lest they anger the spirits; the listening to and singing for water in the catchment area; and the activism that resists the invasion of mining companies. This open-ended list is not meant to travel as a theoretical grid, but rather to inspire others to propose locally salient analytical terms to explore the sites and situations in which they are involved.

The Surprise of Prohibition

Hoptopia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Kopp
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Willamette Valley ◽  
World War ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Eighteenth Amendment ◽  
The Great War

The threat of prohibition inspired Willamette Valley hop growers to join their farming brethren on the Pacific Coast to enter a political fight. It was a fight, however, that failed, as Oregon voters approved an initiative to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol five years before Congress ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. Many hop growers abandoned the trade in fear of prohibition, along with others farmers that moved in the direction of grain, fruits, and vegetables to help in the World War I era. But those who stayed planted in hops were wise to do so. As the Great War unfolded in Europe, agricultural lands lay ruined. Additionally, Germany’s aggression corroded their hold on the international hop market. Willamette Valley growers seized the opportunity to expand their distribution shortly after the war and through the 1920s. So great was the success that even during Prohibition that eliminated domestic beer markets, Oregon growers expanded acreage in every year of the “dry decade.”

Celebrity Culture and the Gold Rush Metropolis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy K. DeFalco Lippert
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The City

With the gold rush, San Francisco almost instantaneously became an important stop for a host of international entertainment tours that expanded well beyond the Atlantic world, to Australia as well as the Pacific Coast. The term celebrity was first employed as a noun in the 1840s and 1850s, and from its inception, this cultural phenomenon was intrinsically linked with and profited handsomely from transnational exchange networks—the conduits for the transmission of print and visual culture, as well as the migration of people and capital. Theatrical entertainment flourished in nineteenth-century San Francisco, as did the trade in celebrity portraits. In this context, certain charismatic individuals emerged: notably female stars, including Lola Montez and Adah Isaacs Menken, who embodied the trend of self-representation that overtook the city. The celebrity thrived in a place where human identity could become a consumable commodity—in turn, it often became all-consuming..

California, Coincidence, and Empire

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-62
Author(s):  
Elliott West
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Pacific World ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Short Run

The first modern gold rush began when gold was discovered in Northern California simultaneous with the United States acquiring California in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In the long run, this remarkable coincidence helped send the nation on its trajectory toward global power. In the short run, three traits of this rush—its wealth, its boom of population and demand, and its isolation—created a dynamic in California that caused consequences that would be shared by other rushes across the world: catastrophic effects on the indigenous population, a telescoped development into a modern economy, and expanding connections to a wider world. That third effect was fed by another coincidence. The gold strike of 1848 came just as American and European interests in the Pacific world were maturing. The near-instant expansion of national influence—in this case, toward Asia—suggests another possible pattern of gold-rush imperialism.

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