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The Immigrant and the University : Peder Sather and Gold Rush California /

Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There, he worked as a servant and a clerk at a lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. During the gold rush, he moved to San Francisco to help establish the banking house of Drexel, Sather & Church on Mon...

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Autor principal: Sveen, Karin, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Norwegian
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 Monuments and Mysteries; 2 Sole Passenger; 3 Baptism and Marriage; 4 1837; 5 New Yorker and Norwegian; 6 A Specimen of the Gold; 7 A Particular Friend; 8 Drexel, Sather & Church; 9 Congratulating Himself on Freedom; 10 Cigars, Wine, and Other Evils; 11 The Turning Point; 12 Law in a Lawless City; 13 Gold, Pigs, and a Summer Residence; 14 The Foundation of Man's Future Circumstances; 15 Morals, Money, and War; 16 The Haunted House; 17 Never Sather & Son; 18 Among Friends on Wall Street; 19 Under the Fever Trees. 
505 0 |a 20 Peder and Jane21 In Memoriam; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. 
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