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Web Site Review
California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early
Years, 18491900 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html>.
American Memory Project, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Reviewed
April 2002.
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Amid the "gold rush" of historical Web sites now appearing on the Internet, California as I Saw It provides scholars, students, and the general public with a rich "lode" of published materials and primary sources. Offering significant contributions as a research and teaching resource, this Web site introduces both the novice user and the experienced online researcher to California's nineteenth-century history in the words of those who lived through this defining era. As "The Learning Page" notes, the Web site includes "complete works by Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, and William Tecumseh Sherman," in addition to "a rich array of journals, diaries, and letters illustrating everyday life." |
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