A BACKWARD GLANCE AT EIGHTY

RECOLLECTIONS & COMMENT

BY CHARLES A. MURDOCK

MASSACHUSETTS 1841 HUMBOLDT BAY 1855 SAN FRANCISCO 1864

1921

THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO THE FRIENDS WHO INSPIRED IT

Contents

[ CHAPTER III ]

[ CHAPTER VII ]

[ CHAPTER VIII ]

[ CHAPTER XII ]

List of Illustrations

[ A Camera Glance at Eighty ]

[ Humboldt Bay—from Russian Atlas the Hidden Harbor—thrice Discovered Winship, 1806. Gregg, 1849. Ottinger, 1850. ]

[ Presidential Commission As Registrar of the Land Office At Humboldt, California ]

[ Francis Bret Harte ]

[ The Clay Street Office the Day After ]

[ Thomas Starr King. San Francisco, 1860-1864 ]

[ Horatio Stebbins. San Francisco, 1864-1900 ]

[ Horace Davis—fifty Years a Friend ]

[ Harvard University when he Entered ]

[ Outings in the Sierras, 1910 ]

[ Outings In Hawaii, 1914 ]

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