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Sabina (ship), 176
Sacramento, 67 , 69 , 91 , 105 , 119 , 144 , 174 , 215 , 234 , 256 , 257 , 258 , 263 , 264 , 278 , 282
Sacramento County, 64 , 247 , 261
Sacramento Daily Union , 67
Sacramento River, 111 , 117 , 132 , 212 , 250 , 256 , 280
Sacramento Valley, 118 , 132 , 143 , 144 , 234 , 243 , 244
Sacramento Valley Railroad, 223 , 264 , 284
St. Clair, David J., 18
St. Louis, 221 , 264
Salinas Valley, 243
Salt Lake City, 169 , 267
San Antonio, Rancho, 238
San Bernardino, 265 , 267
San Bernardino County, 144
San Diego, 113 , 185 , 211 , 212 , 244
San Diego County, 144
San Diego-San Antonio mail, 264
San Fernando Pass, 264
San Francisco: 5 , 42 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 91 , 92 , 144 , 152 , 156 , 174 , 178 , 182 , 185 , 212 , 234 , 236 , 241 , 244 , 251 , 254 , 255 , 256 , 268 , 282 ;
banking in, 210 , 212 -15, 218 -22;
business directory for, 213 ;
manufacturing in, 34 , 41 , 196 -97, 200 , 204 , 277 , 278 ;
news of gold discovery reaches, 3 ;
source of resources for other regions, 158 , 160 , 189 , 243 ;
world's fastest growing city, 187
San Francisco Bay, 109 , 110 , 115 , 132 , 242 , 250 , 254
San Francisco Business Directory , 215
San Francisco County, 64
San Francisco Evening Bulletin , 239
San Francisco Mining Stock and Exchange Board:
formation of (1862), 69 ;
sales of securities at, 70
San Francisco Morning Post , 63
San Francisco Post Office, 263
San Francisco Savings Bank, 210
San Francisco Sugar Refinery, 196
San Gorgonio Pass, 267
San Joaquin and Kings River Canal and Irrigation Company, 239
San Joaquin County, 6 , 245
San Joaquin Delta, 287
San Joaquin River, 111 , 241 , 250 , 256 , 258 , 280
San Joaquin Valley, 113 , 114 , 118 , 138 , 234 , 238 , 239 , 240 , 243 , 244 , 247
San Jose, 204
San Juan mining district (Colorado), 157 , 162
San Juan Ridge, 116
San Juan River, 253
San Lorenzo, Panama, 178
San Luis de Gonzaga Ranch, 114
San Luis Obispo, 241 , 264
San Luis Obispo County, 144 , 243
San Mateo County, 245
San Pablo Bay, 132
San Pedro, 266 -67
San Simeon Ranch, 241
Sandmeyer, Elmer, 85
Sandon mining district (Canada), 166
Sansevain, Jean Louis and Pierre, 244
Santa Barbara, 264
Santa Barbara County, 109 , 144 , 243 , 247
Santa Clara County, 63
Santa Clara Mission, 211
Santa Clara Valley, 111
Santa Cruz, 188 , 199 -200
Santa Cruz County, 109
Santa Cruz Mountains, 115 , 254
Santa Fe, 111
Santa Margarita, Rancho, 234
Santa Susana Pass, 264
Sarras, Ferminia, 166
Savage Silver Mining Works, 153
sawmill, first in Hispanic California, 115
Sawyer, Lorenzo, 132 -33, 134 , 169
Schieffelen, Ed, 166
Schilling Spices, 196
schooners, 255
Schweikart, Larry, 18
Scientific American , 250
Scotch broom, 117
sea otters, 106 , 109 -10
sea routes to California, 5
Sears, Marian V., 52
"Seeing the Elephant" (lithograph), 176
Sequoia National Park, 109
Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, 115
Service, Robert, 168
Shady Creek, 117
shaft mining. See quartz mining
Sharon, William, 71 , 73 , 160 , 223 , 224 , 281
Shasta, 264
Shasta County, 64
Shaw, William, 10
sheep, 113 , 114 -15, 242 -43
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 217 , 221
Shew, William, 53
Shinn, Charles Howard, 11 , 58 , 141 , 151 , 169
shipbuilding, 203
Shirley Letters, The , 7
Shirley, Dame, ix , 7 , 79 , 87 , 181
Sierra County, 5 , 64 , 129 , 132 , 141
Sierra Nevada, roads through, 261 -63, 264
Silliman, Benjamin, 132
silver, discovery in Nevada, 53 , 204 , 222
Silverton mining district (Canada), 166
Skunk Gulch, 7
skunks, 117
slavery, 84 , 87
slickens, 118 , 133
"sliming" ore, 43
sluice box, 28 , 59 , 94 , 181 , 197
Smartsville, 118
smelter, 169
Smith, Adam, 125
Smith, Duane A., 17 , 144
Smith, H. Grant, 154 , 160
Smith, Hamilton, 157
Smith, Jedediah, 111
soap making, 185
Social Darwinism, wedded to anthropology, 125
Society of California Pioneers, 83
Solano County, 247
Sonoma, 113 , 185 , 245 -47
Sonora, Mexico, 84 , 89
South Africa, 287
South America, 28 , 155 , 285
South Fork of the American River, 1 , 2 , 212
southern California, transportation and, 266 -68
Southern Maidu, 9
Southern Mines, 29 , 36 , 38 , 89 , 131 , 180
Southern Pacific Railroad, 138
Soviet Union, 168
Spain, 25
Spanish explorers, 2
Spanish miners, 151
Specie and Exchange Office, 218
speculators and speculation, 165
Spence, Clark, 55 , 135 , 149 , 165 , 167
Spreckels, Claus, 195
squatter clubs, 125
stagecoaching, 263 -66, 283
stamp milling, 32
stamp mills, 66
Stanford, Leland, 279 , 283
Stanislaus River, 8
State Agricultural Society, 247
State Board of Agriculture, 247
state laws, effect on incorporation, 54
steam engines, 199 , 200 -1
steamboats, 258 , 265 , 283
Stegner, Wallace, 139
Stewart, William Morris, 131 , 164
Stockton, 69 , 91 , 215 , 234 , 256 , 257 , 258 , 263 , 264
Stone, John A., 7
Storms, William H., 46
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 27
Strauss, Levi, 7 , 195 , 278
strikes, by miners, 96 -99
Studebaker, John, 7 , 196 , 278
A Study of American Character (1886), 12
Sugar Loaf Mountain, 262
sugar cane, 203
sugar refinery, 223
Suisun Bay, 132
Sutro, Adolph, 160
Sutter, John, 86 , 211 , 212
Sutter's Fort, 105 , 179
Sutter's Mill, 1 , 2 , 179 , 276
Swain, William, 90 , 182
Sweetland, 132
Swickhimer, Laura, 166
"Sydney Town," in San Francisco, 5