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The Daily Alta California descended from the first newspaper published in the city, Samuel Brannan's California Star, which debuted on January 9, 1847.Brannan, who had earlier assisted in publishing several Mormon newspapers in New York, had brought a small press with him when he immigrated to California as part of a group of Mormon settlers in 1846 aboard The Brooklyn.
The Daily Alta California; The Daily News (San Francisco) The Pacific Ensign; Vestkusten; Weekly Alta California (1849) [1] Wide West (newspaper) (1854-1858) [1 ...
San Francisco Bay Guardian; San Francisco Call (1856–1913) [16] San Francisco Evening Bulletin (1929–1959) [17] San Francisco Frontiers (1994–2002) [18] The San Francisco News (1903–1959) [19] San Mateo County Times; San Mateo Daily News; Sanger Herald; La Sociedad (San Francisco, Spanish, 1869–1895) [20] Upland News; Viet Mercury ...
In the second half of the 19th century, there was a San Francisco-based newspaper called The Daily Alta California (or The Alta Californian). Mark Twain's first widely successful book, The Innocents Abroad, was an edited collection of letters written for this publication.
So it was that as early as 1854, miners made camp in Azusa Canyon, a few miles up the east fork of the San Gabriel River. In 1859, there was enough critical mass for some 300 miners to christen ...
Some estimates can be obtained from the Alta Californian newspapers published in San Francisco in 1850. A corrected California 1850 census would go from 92,597 (the uncorrected "official number") to over 120,000.
Officials reported standing water on a freeway interchange in Dublin and flooded lanes along Interstate 280, U.S. Highway 101 and California Highway 35, along the San Francisco Peninsula. To the ...
The Daily Alta California; The Daily News (San Francisco) H. Hindustan Ghadar; Hokubei Mainichi Newspaper; J. J. The Jewish News of Northern California; L. Leviathan ...