True Gold: History and Adventure in Sacramento and the Gold
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History and Adventure in Sacramento and the Gold Country, from Indians to Arnold. Includes two fold outs: Map to the Gold and a go and see for yourself Adventure Tour. Like a stop action History TV video, True Gold tells the adventures that made California with more than 100 pictures. Color reenactments show what it would be like to step into the Gold Rush.
By Greg Velm
2006
COST: $5
About the Author
Greg Velm is Chair of the History Commission in Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO STREET WHYS
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This informative and quirky street name survey highlights over 400 of the Sacramento region's notable and not so notable streets. Explore ten distinct sections of the Sacramento region from city neighborhoods such as Midtown and Land Park to the new suburbs of Elk Grove and Natomas, and out to Folsom and Davis.
Learn the fascinating social history of the people including John Sutter, Joan Didion, the Curtis Family, Adolph Teichert, General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Joseph Folsom and dozens of others, whose lives form an integral part of these places.
Was Dead Cat Alley in Woodland named for a poisonous mistake or a local blue plate special? Why does the Sacramento grid have a street for every letter except Z? What Land Park Street is named for a baseball player? It might not be the one that you think. To find out the answers to the above, and whether Tesla Way was named for the inventor or the rock band, you'll want this book.
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About the Author
Carlos Alcalá, columnist for the Sacramento Bee, is one of the region's wittiest and most engaging writers. With his alter ego, the Whys Guy, he delves into Sacramento s rich history to create this entertaining guidebook of the origins of local street names.
THE ADVENT OF MALARIA IN CALIFORNIA AND OREGON IN THE 1830'S
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Bonita Louise Boles owns and operates SchreiberWorks, a communications enterprise based in California (previously of the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area), which offers editorial and writing services for a select global clientele in academia, government, and private industry. Her past experience includes a posting as a writer-editor for the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C. At present, she is serving as the supervisor of publications for an independent oversight agency of the State of California.
HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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The work is a historical account tracing the development of the medical profession, and more specifically of the medical society movement in California, through the lens of the state society (which became the California Medical Association) and its antecedents. Published by The Historical Committee of the Sacramento Society fir Medical Improvement - 1964
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WALKING TOUR OF THE MEDICAL PIONEER GRAVESITES
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Walking Tour of the Medical Pioneer Gravesites is a self-guided booklet prepared by Dr. Irma West, M.D., for the historical committee of the local medical society in the Sacramento region. It provides a walking-tour route through one or more cemetery(ies) in the Sacramento and perhaps El Dorado area, identifying gravesites of early medical practitioners (“medical pioneers”) in the region — 19th- to early 20th-century physicians and perhaps osteopaths.
COST: 3.00
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A self-directed tour prepared by Irma Wed, M.D.
and The Sacramento - El Dorado Medical Society Historical Committee
ADOBE BRICK & STEEL
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A History of Hospitals and Shelters for the Sick in Sacramento and El Dorado Counties written by Eleanor Rodgerson, MD, and members of the Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society Historical Committee
COST: 10.00
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By Eleanor Rodgerson, M.D. and members of The Sacramento - El Dorado Medical Society Historical Committee
THE BRIGHTEST ORNAMENT: A BIOGRAPHY OF NATHANIEL CHAPMAN, MD
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This dissertation discusses Nathaniel Chapman's participation in and influence on the medical profession in Philadelphia.
COST: 8.00