Alta California, 1840-1842: The Journal and Observations of William Dane Phelps, Master of the Ship "Alert"
- ISBN-10
- 0870621432
- ISBN-13
- 9780870621437
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Pages
- 364
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Publisher
- Arthur H. Clark Company
- Author
- William Dane Phelps
Description
276-9 , 403-3 ) ; William Richard Cutter , Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts ( N.Y. , 1908 ) , II , pp . 867-69 ; William Bentley , The Diary of William Bentley ...
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