Trade paperback, 191 pages,
7 x 10, 36 maps and
illustrations, index.
ISBN: 0-944220-08-8
$17.95
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San Francisco/Yerba Buena
From the Beginning to the Gold Rush,
1769–1849
Compiled and Edited by Peter
Browning
San Francisco
Bay was discovered in 1769. Eighty years later the city of San Francisco was a
boomtown with a population of 40,000. Here is the written and visual record of the
discovery and exploration of San Francisco Bay, and the founding and settlement of Yerba
Buena—which became San Francisco. Recounted by excerpts from the journals, diaries,
and books of the discoverers, explorers, foreign visitors, and early residents: Costanso,
Ayala, Font, Vancouver, Langsdorff, Roquefeuil, Kotzebue, Beechey, Richardson, Simpson,
Kemble, and others.
From the
editor's preface: "It is my intention in this book to relate a concise history
of San Francisco Bay and of the village of Yerba Buena, which would become San Francisco.
I have compiled a record that portrays, in words, maps, and illustrations, the
impressions, attitudes, and geographical knowledge of the observers of the farthest
reaches of New Spain, Mexico, and the onset of the American dominion, as they perceived it
over a stretch of eighty years."
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