November 25, 2005
Part three of the pre-history of San Francisco, the early life of the village of Yerba Buena.
(if you missed ’em, listen to part one and part two first.)
This is the concluding episode on this theme, taking you right up to the edge of 1848. in this episode: goats, bears, and Mormons!
For further edification:
» Bear Flag revolt
» John Brown’s account
» Sloat’s proclamation
- #56: Lotta Crabtree — the San Francisco Favourite
- Vintage snapshots of San Francisco pt. 2: Google-mapped
- book review — “San Francisco Almanac”
- SFist — sands-can-drift-so
- #27: Patty Hearst, revolutionary sweetheart
Thanks to Ryo Sode for the use of the beautiful tune “Yosemite”, courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network.
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December 3, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Great storytelling as usual. But man, it was hard to keep all of the names, locations, and time of events straight in my head. A 30+ minute podcast covering so many stories was a little bit of overload. Maybe I shouldn’t have listened to Parts 2 and 3 in succession! Time for a second listen.
December 4, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Agreed, but i bet you have taken in alot more than you think. It’s that subliminal thingy in action. Still a second Listen won’t go amiss
January 26, 2013 at 2:20 am
Great stuff!!! I was searching for information about Starr King when I chanced upon your podcast. Being a descendant, on each of my parent’s sides, of people who lived here during those early years, I’ve always been interested in and prideful of our connection to THE CITY and her history. Your links to directories of the 19th century puts close at hand the sources of information I would like my 9 month old granddaughter to know. She is the 6th generation of our family to be born in THE CITY. FOREST FREDERICK HAGGETT, my great-grandfather, was the first generation born here in 1857. Henry (Hienrick) Helgoth, the first generation on my mothers’s side, was born the same year. His father spent more than 150 days aboard a ship, out of Hamburg, rounding Cape Horn to reach here in 1852. I look forward to listening to all of these pod-casts. Northern California has so many interesting stories. Inventive, intriguing, inspiring people populate our history. May your stories of the past ignite in this and future generations the passions and visions that have made our state great.