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The Literature of California History
0. Burpee. Lawrence Johnstone. ThIe search for thle western
sea; the story of the e:ploraoion of no/rth-westernsl 1a erica.
New York. 1908.
7. Laut, Agnes Christina. The conquest of the great north-west;
being lthe story of the advent urers of England known as the
Hudson's Bay Company. New York. 1911.
8. Colder, Frank Alfred. fus.ssian expansion, on the Pacific,
1671-1850. Cleveland. 1914. The date 1850 is a typo-
graphical error for 1750.
Doctor Golder's work is the most. scholarly volume in English
on Russian activities in the Pacific. It is to be hoped that the
author may continue his investigations, according to his original
plan, and bring his account down to the disappearance of Russia
from North America with the purchase of Alaska by the United
States. No, other man is so well equipped for the task as Doctor
Golder.
9. Davidson, Gordon Charles. The North, West Company.
(University of California, Publications in history. v. VTI.)
Berkeley. 1918.
This is the most important monograph that has yet appeared
on the general subject of English approaches to the Pacifie coast
by way of Cana.da. It is a work of sound seholarship.
(c). The 'American conquest of California, according to the
narratives of eye-wit nesses.
If all of the hooks on the westward expansion of the United
States toward and into California were taken into consideration,
their numbers would reach perhaps into the thousands,. Indeed,
the books about California by men who actually visited or lived
there in the middle years of the nineteenth century are quite
numerous. It will be sufficient to mention soni of the outstand-
ing' works. (not all of them) of the latter group which are repre-
sentative of this class.
1. Forbes, Alexander. California : a history of Upper and Lower
California. London. 1839.
Though labeled a "history," this work is more particularly in-
teresting for the information it ivces, of F orbes' own time. Forbes
was an Englishman who was desirous of seeing his countrymen
acquire the Californias. I-e had never visited the province, but
had been in correspondence and intimate relations with those who329
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