Description: The Journal of a Sea Captain's Wife, 1841-1845 by Lydia Rider Nye, Doyce B. Nunis Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library. Publisher Description Lydia Rider Nyes journal is unique: it is presently the only known journal kept by a wife of a ship captain during a voyage along the Pacific Coast prior to 1848. Indeed, it may be the only known journal kept by an American hide and tallow sea captains wife while voyaging along the Pacific Coast in the first half of the nineteenth century.Other wives accompanied their husbands aboard ship during the early 19th century, but without recording their experiences, as detailed by the editor in his prologue.Nyes journal and letters were kept to amuse herself and inform her family. They record her voyage to Hawaii, her life in Honolulu, and her voyage on her husbands ship to Oregon and California. Her activities, places visited, and people met are fully recorded in her journal entries which contain important sidelights on the history of Hawaii, Oregon, and California.Traveling alone by ship from New England to Hawaii, Mrs. Nye spent four months in Honolulu awaiting the arrival of her husband. She then joined him on a voyage first to the Columbia River for a brief stay, followed by a longer visit to San Francisco, including an inland trip to the Napa Valley, then Monterey, and Santa Barbara.Astoria, Fort Vancouver, Clatsop and John McLoughlin are prominent in the portion of the journal dealing with Oregon and the Columbia River. The Nyes were McLoughlins guest several times. Many of the Methodist missionaries, including Jason Lee, visited the Nyes on board the brig Fama.While in California, the Nyes spent time in San Francisco, the Napa Valley, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and Santa Barbara. Among those mentioned at length in her journal are Capt. William A. Leidsdorff, George C. Yount, Thomas O. Larkin and wife, Alpheus B. Thompson, and numerous native Californios. Mrs. Nye provides a description of the hide trade, in which her husband participated.Appendixes supplement the text, and include ""Lydia Rider Nyes Guest Book Kept in Honolulu""; ""William Patys Journal Account of the British Seizure of Honolulu, 1842""; ""King Kamehameha III Gala Luau Celebrating Restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom""; and ""Sir George Simpsons Description of the California Hide and Tallow Trade."" Author Biography Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., is professor emeritus of history, University of Southern California, and the author of numerous books on the history of the American West, including The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton, 1836-1839, The Trials of Isaac Graham. For over forty years he served as editor of the award-winning journal Southern California Quarterly.Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Southern Cailfornia, editor of Southern California Quarterly, and is listed in Whos Who in America, Whos Who in the West, Contemporary Authors and the new edition of Howard Lamars Encyclopedia of the American West. Marla Daily is the President of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation. Details ISBN 0870623095 ISBN-13 9780870623097 Title The Journal of a Sea Captain's Wife, 1841-1845 Author Lydia Rider Nye, Doyce B. Nunis Format Hardcover Year 2004 Pages 260 Publisher Arthur H. Clark Company GE_Item_ID:9636951; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. 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ISBN-13: 9780870623097
Book Title: The Journal of a Sea Captain's Wife, 1841-1845
Number of Pages: 260 Pages
Publication Name: Journal of a Sea Captain's Wife, 1841-1845 : During a Passage and Sojourn in Hawaii and of a Trading Voyage to Oregon and California
Language: English
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Year: 2004
Subject: United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), General, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa), United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa)
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Lydia Rider Nye
Subject Area: Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
