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2017 - Monterey County Historical Society - Hornbeck Collection Wpa Notebooks And Folders Inventory.Pdf
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A series of notebooks and folders containing information regrading California land grants, patented grants, missions, diseños, expedientes, Mission manuscripts
2017 - Monterey County Historical Society - Hornbeck Collection - Microfilm Inventory.Pdf
2017 - Monterey County Historical Society - Hornbeck Collection - Microfilm Inventory.Pdf
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A collection of microfilm donated to the Monterey County Historical Society by Dr. David Hornbeck dealing with California history, land use, land grants, land patents, ranchos and missions.
1916 - The Missions And Missionaries Of California, Index To Volumes Ii-Iv, Zephyrin Engelhardt
1916 - The Missions And Missionaries Of California, Index To Volumes Ii-Iv, Zephyrin Engelhardt
Franciscan Publications
This 1916 publication is an index of Volumes I through IV for Engelhardt's Missions and Missionaries of California.
1915 - The Missions And Missionaries Of California, Vol. Iv, Upper California, Part Iii, General History, Zephyrin Engelhardt
Franciscan Publications
The fourth and final volume in Engelhardt's series on the general history of the California missions and generally concludes with the narrative in the early 1850s time period. The author noted that, "... a cursory view of the situation revealed such un common struggles in behalf of the Indians against military usurpation and colonist cupidity, accompanied and followed by such extraordinary misrepresentations and calumnies, that only a documentary history would satisfy the critical student and intelligent reader. ... The character of the missionaries, their religious and moral principles, their object, methods, resources, successes and reverses were examined and recorded in …
1901 - Irrigation In The United States - Testimony Of Elwood Mead Before U.S. Industrial Commission, June 11-12, 1901
Miscellaneous Federal Documents & Reports
Professor Elwood Mead, expert in charge of the Irrigation Investigations of the United States Department of Agriculture, appeared before the United States Industrial Commission on June 11 and 12, 1901, to testify on the subject of irrigation in the United States. His testimony presented a review of the irrigation situation in the United States, including not only the arid region of the West, but also the humid sections of the South and East, where in two States alone more land had been brought under irrigation during the past five years than in any single State in the arid region during …