Phoenixiana: Or Sketches and BurlesquesGeorge Horatio Derby (1823-1861) of Massachusetts graduated from West Point in 1846 and served in the Army Topographical Engineers at Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo before being sent to California in 1856. He remained there for seven years, leading three exploring expeditions and winning a place as one of the state's first humorists with pieces published in the San Diego Herald and republished around the nation. Phoenixiana (1903) reprints a book originally published in 1855. It contains Derby's pieces as "Professor John Phoenixiana" and "Squibob," poking fun at such topics as military surveyors and explorers; contemporary travel accounts of the Mission Dolores, Benecia, Sonoma, San Francisco, and San Diego; literary societies and women's clubs; astronomy; and Army life. |
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... Earth , the Moon . PISTOL SHOOTING - A COUNTER CHALLENGE ANTIDOTE FOR FLEAS • PHOENIX AT THE MISSION DOLORES SQUIBOB IN BENICIA SQUIBOB IN SONOMA . SQUIBOB IN SAN FRANCISCO 81 86 88 95 • 106 111 PAGE • 119 PHOENIX INSTALLED EDITOR OF ...
... Earth , the Moon . PISTOL SHOOTING - A COUNTER CHALLENGE ANTIDOTE FOR FLEAS • PHOENIX AT THE MISSION DOLORES SQUIBOB IN BENICIA SQUIBOB IN SONOMA . SQUIBOB IN SAN FRANCISCO 81 86 88 95 • 106 111 PAGE • 119 PHOENIX INSTALLED EDITOR OF ...
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Or Sketches and Burlesques George Horatio Derby. at great expense imbedded in the earth , one at each extremity of the line , to mark the initial points . On placing compasses over these points to determine the bearing of the base , we ...
Or Sketches and Burlesques George Horatio Derby. at great expense imbedded in the earth , one at each extremity of the line , to mark the initial points . On placing compasses over these points to determine the bearing of the base , we ...
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... Earth ; and as we have every reason to suppose that every one of this inconceivable number of worlds is peopled like our own , a consideration of this fact and that we are undoubtedly as superior to these beings as we are to the rest of ...
... Earth ; and as we have every reason to suppose that every one of this inconceivable number of worlds is peopled like our own , a consideration of this fact and that we are undoubtedly as superior to these beings as we are to the rest of ...
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... Earth , on which we reside , is one , -which shine by light reflected from the Sun , and which regularly move around that body at different intervals of time and through different ranges in space . Up to the time of a gentleman named ...
... Earth , on which we reside , is one , -which shine by light reflected from the Sun , and which regularly move around that body at different intervals of time and through different ranges in space . Up to the time of a gentleman named ...
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... Earth , Mars , Flora , Vesta , Iris , Metis , Hebe , Astrea , Juno , Ceres , Pallas , Hygeia , Jupiter , Saturn , Herschel , Neptune , and another , yet unnamed . There are distributed among these , nine- teen secondaries , all of which ...
... Earth , Mars , Flora , Vesta , Iris , Metis , Hebe , Astrea , Juno , Ceres , Pallas , Hygeia , Jupiter , Saturn , Herschel , Neptune , and another , yet unnamed . There are distributed among these , nine- teen secondaries , all of which ...
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