Sue's Library

I have the following in my library,
and will gladly look up modest requests,
but please be specific about the resource you want me to check.

I am gradually putting parts of the indexes for these books at this site.
They are text files which you are welcome to copy to your hard drive and study off-line.

California / Nevada
Montana
Old West
San Francisco
Various localities

Yearbooks:

Albany High (Albany, Alameda Co, CA) - 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943
Fremont High (Oakland, Alameda Co, CA) - 1909 & 1918-19
Lemoore Army Air Field  (Lemoore, King's Co, CA) - 1944
Richmond High (Richmond, Contra Costa Co, CA) - 1952 & 1954
Turlock High (Turlock, Stanislaus Co, CA) - 1950 & 1951
University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA) - 1950

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CALIFORNIA / NEVADA:

Cain, Ella M. The Story of Bodie. (California). San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1956
Index of names, places, businesses; related items
Caughey, John Walton. Gold is the Cornerstone. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1948.
    Tells the human side of the story of the California gold rush.
    Indexed by people and places.
Grimshaw, William Robinson. Grimshaw's Narrative. Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1964.
    "Being the Story of Life and Events in California during Flush Times, particularly the Years 1848-1850. Including a Biographical Sketch. Written for the Bancroft Library in 1872...."
    Indexed by people and places.
Meadows, Lorena Edwards. A Sagebrush Heritage. San Jose, CA: Harlan-Young Press, 1972.
    Biography of Benjamin Franklin EDWARDS, 1865 - 1959.
    Includes interesting histories of Western Nevada and Central California, with mentions of many influential folks.
    Primary surnames: BARLOW, EDWARDS, HOLMAN, JENKINS, ZABRISKIE.
    Primary localities: Indexed by places and people.
Meadows, Lorena Edwards. Buried Treasure. El Cerrito, CA: Earl Enterprises, 1982

Dreadful follow-up to A Sagebrush Heritage. Nevertheless, has some info of interest to genealogists.
Indexed by people, places and publication names.

Paher, Stanley W. Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps. Las Vegas, NV: Nevada Publications, 1993

Volume One - Northern Nevada. Stan Paher's Illustrated Atlas, includes beautiful photos by Nell Murgarger.
Atlas is not indexed, but I've constructed an index of places.

Staniford, Edward. El Cerrito Historical Evolution. El Cerrito, CA: El Cerrito-Kensington Bicentennial Committee; El Cerrito Historical Society, 1976.
    Now a bedroom community in the East Bay Area, El Cerrito was once called Rust and was the place to go for gambling and night clubs.
    Indexed.
Neider, Charles, ed. The Autobiography of Mark Twain - Including Chapters Now Published for the First Time. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1959.
    Arranged and edited by Charles Neider.
    Indexed by names and places, although not comprehensively.
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MONTANA:

Montana Business Service. In the Shadow of the Twin Sisters. Lewistown, MT: Montana Business Service, 1973

    Montana: Ubet, Garneill, Straw, & Buffalo.
    Re. Pioneers of Montana,-- covers "the end of the 19th century and the outset of the 20th as related by the Pioneers and by their descendents.
    Indexed by people.

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OLD WEST:

Florin, Lambert. Western Ghost Towns. Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1961
    Includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming.
    Indexed by places.
Stewart, George R. The California Trail - An Epic with Many Heroes. NY: McGraw-Hill Co., Inc., 1962
    Opening the west in the 1840s and 50s.
    Indexed by people and places.
Wilson, Neill C. Treasure Express -- Epic Days of the Wells Fargo. NY: The MacMillan Company, 1936
    Gold rush California & other Old West areas.
    Index of names, places & businesses

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SAN FRANCISCO:

Kroninger, Robert H. Sarah and the Senator. Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1964
    Purports to be the true story of political naughtiness in 1880s San Francisco.
    Indexed by people and places.
Lewis, Oscar. Bay Window Bohemia -- an Account of the Brilliant and Artistic World of Gaslit San Francisco. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1956
    Covers 1890 to 1906.
    Indexed by people and places.
Stellman, Louis J. Sam Brannan - Builder of San Francisco. NY: Exposition Press, 1953

Indexed by people and places.

Wilson, Neill C. Treasure Express -- Epic Days of the Wells Fargo. NY: The MacMillan Company, 1936
    Opening the west in the 1840s and 50s.
    Indexed by people and places.
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VARIOUS LOCALITIES:

Catton, Bruce. The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1959, 1962.

Indexed by people, places and events.

Freuchen, Peter with David Loth. Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas. NY: Julian Messner, Inc., 1957

Indexed by people, places and ships.

Hoyt, Edward Jonathan. Buckskin Joe, A Memoir. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1966
    Covers 1840 - 1918. Includes Australia, Colorado, Florida, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nicaragua, Nova Scotia, Oaklahoma, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Rhode Island, So. Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
    Indexed by people and places.
Lock, J.S. The JICKLING Genealogy.
    Very extensive, including large portions of these surnames: BICCUM, BRAY, COOPER, CURRAH, ELLIS, FACEY, HUTTON, JICKLING, LESLIE, LUCAS, McCLAIIN, MEADOWS, RUDY, SMITH, STEEL, WHITEHEAD, WOODS. Smaller portions of many, many others.
    Indexed by name..
Sinnott, Edmund W. Meetinghouse & Church in Early New England. NY: Bonanza Books, 1963
    Indexed by people, places and subjects.
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