Background
Dillon, Richard Hugh was born on January 16, 1924 in Sausalito, California, United States. Son of William T. and Alice M. (Burke) Dillon.
(Limited to an edition of 350, printed by Peter Koch using...)
Limited to an edition of 350, printed by Peter Koch using Minon for the text with Scala & Quadrant italic for display. Artful Deeds is a hoax, a bogus biography. iv , 71+ 1 pages. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards,slip case. small 4to..
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(In this vivid biography of California's greatest mountian...)
In this vivid biography of California's greatest mountian man, Dillon recounts the rugged life of John Adams, nicknamed Grizzly after the bruin with whom he tangled and whom he tamed - a man whose daring exploits put him in a class with Daniel Boone and Wild Bill Hickok. This story is full of the adventure and color of the Old West - the cruel virgin land, vast, wooded and mountainous, untouched save by elusive Indians and wild beast; and Grizzely himself, a protype of the men who choose to take on this wilderness.
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(The greatest California mountain man of them all was Griz...)
The greatest California mountain man of them all was Grizzly Adams. He was also one of the most mysterious men in the history of the American West. In this colorful biography, historian Richard Dillon chronicles the life of the man from a dull New England town who cultivated a society of bears in the wilderness of the West and went on to be one of the greatest showmen. Grizzly Adams' real name was John Adams (despite various aliases he used) and he left Medway, Massachusetts for California in 1849 at the age of 37. Adams traveled widely in the West racking up exploit after exploit. After trying mining in the Gold Country, hunting game to sell to the miners, and trading, Adams finally settled on ranching near Stockton, California. Creditors took his ranch in 1852 and he decided to head to the hills to get away from it all. With the help of the local Miwok Indians, Adams built a cabin and spent the winter alone in the Sierra. During a later hunting and trapping expedition 1,200 miles from his California basecamp, in what is today western Montana, Adams caught a yearling grizzly he named Lady Washington. He tamed her and trained her to follow him. Before long he had her carrying a pack and pulling a loaded sled. In due course, she allowed him to ride her. Lady Washington was the first grizzly Adams captured and tamed, but not the last. As he traveled, John set up impromptu shows of his bears and other animals he had collected. Thinking he was onto something, he then opened the Mountaineer Museum in a basement on Clay Street in San Francisco. In 1855, Adams had been attacked by a mother grizzly in the Sierra. Ben Franklin, one of two grizzly cubs he'd made into pets a year earlier, save his life. In the melee, Adams had his scalp dislodged and came away with a permanent depression in his forehead the size of a silver dollar. Adams often wrestled with the bears during his shows and during one such event, his old wound was cracked open like an eggshell. Knowing he was in poor health and having been away from his wife and family for 10 years, on January 7, 1860, Adams and his menagerie departed from San Francisco on the clipper ship the Golden Fleece. It was a three and one-half month voyage around Cape Horn. When he got to New York he went to work with famed circus owner P.T. Barnum for six weeks. His health having failed him, he sold his menagerie to Barnum and retired to Massachusetts where he died, five days after arriving at the home of his wife and children. Adams was 48.
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(A self-sufficient mile-square Italian village existed for...)
A self-sufficient mile-square Italian village existed for a century in the middle of the city of San Francisco. The village began downtown near Montgomery Street, then climbed the steep slopes of Telegraph Hill and spread down Columbus Ave toward the sands of North Beach. Small houses and crowded flats lined streets where only husky-voiced Italian could be heard, punctuated by bursts of operatic arias. The aroma of sausages, cheese, and garlic escaped from Italian groceries and 'trattorias' -- 'Buon gusto!' was the rallying cry. Washington Square was the heart of the community: men met there to smoke cigars and play bocce ball, while children played and women strolled. Fisherman's Wharf was 'Italy Harbor,' the most colorful corner of the city. Graceful 'feluccas' were moored side by side; 'pescatori' in boots, blue trousers, bright sashes, and flannel shirts mended nets and moved boxes of fish and Dungeness crabs. San Francisco's North Beach was not a tightly knit community, but a mosaic of groups. People from the same province, even village, clustered together and their loyalty, 'campanilismo,' was strong. They lived with, worked with, and married their own. The Italians did not intend to stay, but to save money and return to the Old Country. But in breezy San Francisco, with its stress on freedom and individuality, customs were blown away faster than in the East, and the Americanization process began, led by 'prominenti' Andrea Sbarboro, Domenico Ghiradelli, A.P. Giannini and others.
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(Richard Dillon, one of California's premier historians, t...)
Richard Dillon, one of California's premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco's exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway. Chinatown, as demonstrated by Dillon's fast-paced narrative, became a cauldron of chaos teeming with thugs, prostitutes, gamblers, and warlords preying on scores of helpless victims. As the Tong Wars ripped through San Francisco's Chinatown, the Chinese inhabitants lived under a reign of terror. Opium was abundant as were "slave girls," women imported for the purpose of prostitution. Hatchet-wielding killers silenced any opposition. It was a lurid and violent chapter in American history-and, in an era when the customs of an Asian people were considered foreign and frightening to begin with, the very word "Chinatown" came to suggest the mysterious, the sinister. The truth that survived the earthquake of 1906 was both colorful and tragic. Richard Dillon exposes the plight of the Chinese "average man," trapped between the Tongs that terrorized and cast their shadow over him, and a government that disastrously misunderstood him. Richard H. Dillon has written more than 20 books about California and the West.
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(A history of the wars of North American natives, from the...)
A history of the wars of North American natives, from the coming of whites to the end of the nineteenth century, discusses massacres, broken treaties, and the native Americans' struggle to halt white expansion westward.
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(Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. 1st...)
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. 1st Edition, Hardbound, about 9.5 inches tall, 218 pages. Index. Includes two sections of black and white plates.
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(The seamen's lot became so horrible in this period that e...)
The seamen's lot became so horrible in this period that entire crews frequently jumped ship when a vessel came into port. One result of this was that new crews had to be kidnaped, crimped, or shanghaied from the unsuspecting populace of the ports. These "impressed" or "hobo" crews were still further conspired against. They often had their wages stolen from them; they were poorly fed and clothed. Their lives became "hell afloat and purgatory ashore." In this way what had been our "first and finest employ" in colonial days was turned into a disreputable profession-one that was classed with criminals and prostitutes. Richard H. Dillon, author of Embarcadero, gives us a frightful picture of the seamen's lot in this tragic era. He describes in detail daily life aboard those hell-ships which set records in the passage from Frisco to China, but on whose decks fresh blood of the crew was found every day of the voyage. One of the most infamous of all these vessels was the Challenge whose skipper, Captain Robert H. ("Murderin' Bob" or "Bully") Waterman, was eventually put on trial in San Francisco for murder, theft, unjust assault, brutality, and thirteen other crimes against his crew. Dillon offers a complete picture of Waterman and reveals all the details of his famous trial and punishment. Dillon writes of those who attempted to defend seamen when they were most forgotten by the public conscience. Such men as the Reverend Lyman Beecher of Boston; Samuel C. Damon, the seamen's beloved chaplain at Honolulu; the Frisco street preacher, "Father" William Taylor, and-most outstanding of them all- Andrew Furuseth, the seamen's "Emancipator." In this book Richard Dillon brilliantly recreates the action-packed drama of the American seaman's escape from serfdom. Readers who enjoyed the author's earlier chronicle of true seafaring adventures, Embarcadero, will like Dillon's second book even more.
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(Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American...)
Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams. Everyone pointed to the Modocs as "model Indians." Living on the Oregon-California border, they had assimilated the American culture more than any other Indian tribe. They had accepted the white man's way, dressing in cowboy clothes and working as farm hands. The frontier was quiet...until the white culture that the Modocs had adopted asked them to sign an unjust treaty taking away their tribal lands. Not wanting to fight, the Modocs were forced into a corner by trying, in vain, to work out a peaceful settlement. Out of desperation, they fought. Burnt-Out Fires, by Richard Dillon, chronicles the causes and the results of the Modoc War, one of the most tragic and unnecessary campaigns ever fought against American Indians. Dillon, through expert commentary and extensive research, brings to life the hopeless struggle of the Modoc chief, Captain Jack, to retain his high standing within the tribe while countering with peaceful means the force gradually mounting against him in the white world. The author, without moralizing, goes on to enumerate the bruising inefficiencies of the Indian Agencies and the classical unyielding stance adopted by the United States Army concerning Indian affairs. The result of these is understandings, spiced with ambition and the need to make this conflict an "example" to all Indians, led to the tragic Modoc War; the final act was genocide of the Modocs. After reading Burnt-Out Fires, one realizes that, viewing the forces at work at that time, the war was inevitable...anything different was an impossibility.
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(The greatest California mountain man of them all was Griz...)
The greatest California mountain man of them all was Grizzly Adams. He was also one of the most mysterious men in the history of the American West. In this colorful biography, historian Richard Dillon chronicles the life of the man from a dull New England town who cultivated a society of bears in the wilderness of the West and went on to be one of the greatest showmen. Grizzly Adams’ real name was John Adams (despite various aliases he used) and he left Medway, Massachusetts for California in 1849 at the age of 37. Adams traveled widely in the West racking up exploit after exploit. After trying mining in the Gold Country, hunting game to sell to the miners, and trading, Adams finally settled on ranching near Stockton, California. Creditors took his ranch in 1852 and he decided to head to the hills to get away from it all. With the help of the local Miwok Indians, Adams built a cabin and spent the winter alone in the Sierra. During a later hunting and trapping expedition 1,200 miles from his California basecamp, in what is today western Montana, Adams caught a yearling grizzly he named Lady Washington. He tamed her and trained her to follow him. Before long he had her carrying a pack and pulling a loaded sled. In due course, she allowed him to ride her. Lady Washington was the first grizzly Adams captured and tamed, but not the last. As he traveled, John set up impromptu shows of his bears and other animals he had collected. Thinking he was onto something, he then opened the Mountaineer Museum in a basement on Clay Street in San Francisco. In 1855, Adams was attacked by a mother grizzly in the Sierra. Ben Franklin, one of two grizzly cubs he’d made into pets a year earlier, save his life. In the melee, Adams had his scalp dislodged and came away with a permanent depression in his forehead the size of a silver dollar. Adams often wrestled with his bears during his shows and during one such event, his old wound cracked open like an eggshell. Knowing he was in poor health and having been away from his wife and family for 10 years, in January of 1860 Adams and his menagerie departed from San Francisco on the clipper ship the Golden Fleece. It was a three and one-half month voyage around Cape Horn. When he got to New York he went to work with famed circus owner P.T. Barnum for six weeks. His health failed him and he sold his menagerie to Barnum and retired to Massachusetts where he died five days after arriving at the home of his wife and children. Adams was 48. “There is a clean freshness about the story, set as it is amid forests, valleys, and mountains before they were penetrated by interstate highways. About two dozen illustrations enhance the written account and help to make it, for readers in general, the most reliable version of Grizzly Adams,” —Atlantic
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(Corners are slightly rubbed. Size: 6 1/2" x 9". No marks....)
Corners are slightly rubbed. Size: 6 1/2" x 9". No marks. Binding is tight but edges are slightly rubbed. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Edges browned slightly. NOT ex-library. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; ISBN: 0070169802. ISBN/EAN: 9780070169807. Inventory No: 023344.
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(There are no tales like high-sea tales and here's a baker...)
There are no tales like high-sea tales and here's a baker's dozen of true sea adventures-tales filled with salt spray, blood-and-thunder, and man-overboard action all guaranteed to satisfy the hardiest armchair adventurer. Researched from ships' logs, manuscripts, newspaper accounts and historical records and penned by Richard Dillon a gifted storyteller and one of California's finest historians. Here's a sampling: "San Francisco's Own Pirate" The story of Captain Bully Hayes, who had a habit of running off with other men's ships-and sometimes their women. "The Odyssey of Bernard Gilboy." How a courageous, publicity dodging navigator, alone in an eighteen-foot open craft, sailed from San Francisco to Australia without touching land en route. "Shanghai Days in Frisco" How crimps like Shanghai Kelly perfected the fine art of kidnaping sailors for the dreaded China run and made East Street (as San Francisco's Embarcadero was called for a time) a thoroughfare to be given a wide berth after dusk.
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(The Hudson's Bay Fur Company route to California was the ...)
The Hudson's Bay Fur Company route to California was the fur trappers' and traders' road in the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s from Fort Vancouver (now in Washington State) to San Francisco and beyond. Does "road" mean a six-lane paved freeway to you? Turn the calendar back and ponder a path that was rough, stony, precipitous, ill-marked, and full of perils at every turn: disease, famine, attacking Indians and worse. In quest chiefly of beaver and sea otters, men were lured from Quebec and Montreal, St. Louis and Lake Superior, Hudson Bay and Winnipeg, Taos and Santa Fe and Hawaii. Wherever they came from, they became the handful of wide-wandering mountain men who took part in California's first boom-the trade in furs. Until publication of this book, there had been little documentation of the trail. Such giants of the route as Jedediah Smith and Peter Skene Ogden have come down in history. But the leaders on the trail made indifferent reporters at best and their followers-an ethnic crazy quilt of Englishmen, Scots, Irish, French-Canadians, Mexicans, black Americans, Iroquois, Abenaki, half-breeds, and kanakas from Hawaii -were lucky if they could write their names. The explorations, the discoveries, the incredible hardships, the adventures, and the occasional humor-which lit up the treks like sunshine after a heavy rain-all interweave to make this towering tale. Unlike some of our nation's historic trails which have since been obliterated or are largely untraveled, the fur men's rugged route was only a beginning. A few short years later it was dotted with pack trains, then with wagons, and later with Concord stagecoaches. By 1887 it was the roadbed for the railway which still links Oregon and California. Today, closely paralleling the Southern Pacific right-of-way, Highway 5 carries trucks and trailers north and south with an ease the mountain men of 150 years ago would have envied.
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(In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Americ...)
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the American Merchant Marine went into a terrible and tragic decline, and sailors were forced to serve under conditions that were little better than serfdom. Seamen were exploited in wholesale fashion, disfranchised of almost all their civil and human rights, and brutally punished for even minor offenses. Successful skippers had turned into slave drivers, cracking down on the sailors, sometimes even murdering their "hands." Though captains were legally prohibited from flogging their crews, they did not hesitate to wield belaying pins, marlin spikes, or their bare fists. The seamen's lot became so horrible in this period that entire crews frequently jumped ship when a vessel came into port. One result of this was that new crews had to be kidnaped, crimped, or shanghaied from the unsuspecting populace of the ports. These "impressed" or "hobo" crews were still further conspired against. They often had their wages stolen from them; they were poorly fed and clothed. Their lives became "hell afloat and purgatory ashore." In this way what had been our "first and finest employ" in colonial days was turned into a disreputable profession-one that was classed with criminals and prostitutes. Richard H. Dillon, author of Embarcadero, gives us a frightful picture of the seamen's lot in this tragic era. He describes in detail daily life aboard those hell-ships which set records in the passage from Frisco to China, but on whose decks fresh blood of the crew was found every day of the voyage. One of the most infamous of all these vessels was the Challenge whose skipper, Captain Robert H. ("Murderin' Bob" or "Bully") Waterman, was eventually put on trial in San Francisco for murder, theft, unjust assault, brutality, and thirteen other crimes against his crew. Dillon offers a complete picture of Waterman and reveals all the details of his famous trial and punishment. He also provides a series of portraits of other captains who rivaled "Bully" in their brutality and sadism, and describes how they in their turn were brought to justice. Dillon writes of those who attempted to defend seamen when they were most forgotten by the public conscience. Such men as the Reverend Lyman Beecher of Boston; Samuel C. Damon, the seamen's beloved chaplain at Honolulu; the Frisco street preacher, "Father" William Taylor, and-most outstanding of them all- Andrew Furuseth, the seamen's "Emancipator." In this book Richard Dillon brilliantly recreates the action-packed drama of the American seaman's escape from serfdom. Readers who enjoyed the author's earlier chronicle of true seafaring adventures, Embarcadero, will like Dillon's second book even more.
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(Lewis was undoubtedly the greatest pathfinder this countr...)
Lewis was undoubtedly the greatest pathfinder this country has ever had. The crucial expedition that he and William Clark led up the Missouri River opened up the American West. This award-winning biography chronicles that bold voyage and probes the lesser known aspects of Lewis's life: his youth in Virginia, his close relationship with Thomas Jefferson, his turbulent career as governor of the Louisiana Territory, and his tragic and mysterious death at 35. Detailed maps of the expedition included.
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(Hardcover Book and Jacket. Read about Perry's monumental ...)
Hardcover Book and Jacket. Read about Perry's monumental victory on Lake Erie, War of 1812, one of the greatest naval achievements of all time.
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Dillon, Richard Hugh was born on January 16, 1924 in Sausalito, California, United States. Son of William T. and Alice M. (Burke) Dillon.
Associate of Arts with honorable mention, University of California-Berkeley, 1943; AB with honors in History, University of California-Berkeley, 1948; Master of Arts, University of California-Berkeley, 1949; Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 1950.
Head, Sutro Library, San Francisco, 1953-1979; teacher summer sessions, University of California at Los Angeles, 1964; teacher summer sessions, U. San Francisco, since 1959; professor of history, Fromm Institute, U. San Francisco, since 1980; teacher summer sessions, U. Hawaii, 1962.
(In this vivid biography of California's greatest mountian...)
(Richard Dillon, whose work on Meriwether Lewis has appear...)
(There are no tales like high-sea tales and here's a baker...)
(A history of the wars of North American natives, from the...)
(In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Americ...)
(The Hudson's Bay Fur Company route to California was the ...)
(Richard Dillon, one of California's premier historians, t...)
(Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American...)
(The seamen's lot became so horrible in this period that e...)
(Limited to an edition of 350, printed by Peter Koch using...)
(A self-sufficient mile-square Italian village existed for...)
(Hard Cover; Good; Dust Jacket - Acceptable; Very Good Har...)
(Lewis was undoubtedly the greatest pathfinder this countr...)
(The greatest California mountain man of them all was Griz...)
(The greatest California mountain man of them all was Griz...)
(Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. 1st...)
(Corners are slightly rubbed. Size: 6 1/2" x 9". No marks....)
(Book by Dillon, Richard H.)
(Book by Dillon, Richard H.)
(Hardcover Book and Jacket. Read about Perry's monumental ...)
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(History.)
Served with infantry Army of the United States, World World War II, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow California History Society, Gleeson Library. Associates, University San Francisco.
Member Western History Association, Book Club California (president 1977-1979), Society California Pioneers (honorary), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Barbara A. Sutherland, June 9, 1950. Children: Brian, David, Ross.