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The third in a four-volume series commemorating California's sesquicentennial, this volume brings together the best of the new scholarship on the social and cul
George Horatio Derby (1823-1861) aka John Q.Phoenix, aka SquibobLieutenant Topographical Engineers of the United States Army. He surveyed and mapped the San Joa
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