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Sam Brannan : Builder of San Francisco
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New York
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Exposition Press
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"Far too little is remembered of Sam Brannan during these history-celebrating days in California. Yet Sam Brannan's influence on western America's history was colossal; his deeds formed a pageant of spectacularly important events from the day he brought a shipload of Mormons to sleepy, Latin-Indian Yerba Buena cove, three years before the Gold Rush. Brannan printed San Francisco's first newspaper and its first book that transcended the proportions of a pamphlet; he was a defendant in its first trial by jury; he performed its first marriage ceremony, preached its first Protestant sermon, promoted its first school and opened the first flour mill. Such is a rough resume of Samuel Brannan's life." [Author]
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