Frederick Billings : A Life

Winks, Robin W.

ISBN 10: 0195068149 / ISBN 13: 9780195068146

Published by Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frederick Billings : A Life
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195068149
• ISBN 13: 9780195068146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1St Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Here is San Francisco during the gold rush through the eyes of a 25-year-old Vermonter and the first lawyer to hang out a shingle there, in 1849. Instrumental in founding the University of California, an early conservationist and advocate of national parks at Yosemite and Yellowstone, Frederick Billings was in later years president of the Northern Pacific Railroad when it crossed Montana, where the state's largest city is named for him.

About the Author

About the Author:
Robin Winks is Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History at Yale University. Among his many books are The Blacks in Canada and Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Asia in Western Fiction. He is currently at work on a study of the National Park System in the United States.