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The acquisition of California : typescript, [1941]
BANC MSS C-D 5163
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Title:
The acquisition of California : typescript, [1941]Creator/Contributor:
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944, creatorAbstract:
A survey of events leading up to the U.S. war with Mexico and part played by his father, William Maxwell Wood, U.S. Navy Surgeon,
in the occupation of California.
Portions of W.M. Wood's Wandering sketches of ... cruise aboard the ships, Levant, Portsmouth and Savannah ... (1849) incorporated.
Date:
1941 (issued)Subject:
Wood, William Maxwell -- 1809-1880United States. -- Navy. -- Pacific Squadron.
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Note:
Typescript (carbon copy) of unfinished manuscript; ribbon copy in the Huntington Library.
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Biographies.Physical Description:
125 leaves ; 28 cm.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS C-D 5163