Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader Autobiography & Reminiscence of Henry Blatchford Atkins, Port Jervis, Orange County, N.Y., 1901. The Society of California Pioneers Henry B. Atkins was born in New York City on January 25th, 1816. He arrived in San Francisco August 2nd, 1849 after a "terrible" journey of six months and twenty days. His impression of San Francisco upon arrival was that it was a "desolate sight". Atkins went to Sacramento, and then went to work in mining. He later returned to Sacramento and worked in merchandising Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p.10-13, Vol. 1. This is a typed transcript bound into a volume, of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. This reminiscence provides birth information and background information regarding Atkins' parents. It also provides an imaginative and poetic description of Atkins' overland journey through the Colorado deserts, recounting some of the challenges that faced him. The reminiscence is predominantly concerned with Atkins' six-month journey to California in 1849. Atkins wrote this account when he was 85 years old.
Atkins, Henry Blatchford--1816-1904 Pioneers--California--Biography Overland journeys to the Pacific California--Biography California--History--19th century
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California -- History -- 19th century
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Pioneers California Biography History 19th century. California, Northern.
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