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History of Kaweah and accompanying papers
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History of Kaweah and accompanying papers, 1891-1938.
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1.8 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language
English
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History entitled: The History of the Kaweah Cooperative Colony of California. A Record of a Remarkably Successful (Production for Use) Experiment of Fifty Years Ago. Revealing also its Illegal and Ruthless Wrecking at the Hands of the Harrison Federal Administration of 1889-93. A Statement of Facts Hard to Believe but Nevertheless Confirmed by Incontestable Evidence.
Provenance
Purchased from M & S Rare Books, Inc. on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1996.
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Biographical / Historical Note
J. J. Martin was co-founder of the Kaweah Cooperative Colony of California, a short-lived cooperative society in Tulare County, California, 1885-1991, which ended when the government denied their claim to the land and established Sequoia National Park. Martin was subsequently a commission salesman in Victoria, British Columbia during the Klondike Gold Rush, then became involved in an attempt to establish a colony in Tasmania, and later helped organize the Merchant Service Guild of Canada. In the history Martin argues in favor of restitution by the United States Government of the land he believes was stolen from the colony, and compensation for the losses the colony members incurred, while giving a history of the colony as well as his personal history after the colony's breakup.
Siegfried Ameringer, son of Oscar Ameringer, was editor of the "American Guardian."
Summary
Draft of Martin's History of the Kaweah Cooperative Colony of California, accompanied by an ALS to Siegfried Ameringer dated April 1938, transmitting the manuscript; a document giving Ameringer power of attorney over the typescript; a carbon of a letter from "The American Guardian;" and a copy of the "Kaweah Commonwealth" dated April 4, 1891 (vol. 2, no. 20) sent to Ameringer by Martin, in which a letter from Martin to the "Nationalization News" was printed. The draft of the history, a combination of typescript, typescript carbon, and holograph, is heavily corrected in preparation for publication, and is divided into 24 sections.
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The history of the Kaweah Cooperative Colony of California. A record of a remarkably successful (production for use) experiment of fifty years ago.
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Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
J. J. Martin, History of Kaweah and Accompanying Papers. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
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J. J. Martin, History of Kaweah and Accompanying Papers. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
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