Douglas Sloane Watson (1875-1948) was a writer and editor who specialized in museum-quality limited-edition reprints and facsimiles of early California books and documents.
He was a prolific contributor to the California Historical Society Quarterly, and wrote "Did the Chinese discover America? A critical examination of the Buddhist priest Hui Shen's account of Fu Sang, and the apochryphal voyage of the Chinese navigator Hee-Li" for that journal in 1935.
He also wrote stories about early California history that were privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club in San Francisco, and the Book Club of California.
An original member of the Yerba Buena 1 chapter of the Revived E Clampus Vitus in the 1930's and as the second Humbug of Chapter 1, he could count all known Humbugs at the time on one hand.......
A California Historian, writer and editor of several history books.
Author of 'West Wind', The life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, the Knight of the Golden Horshoe, an eminent figure of the early fur-trade era, the leader, in 1836, of the first trapping expedition into California over the Sierras.
Author of "The life of Johann August Sutter"
Author of "Yerba Buena, 1846, sketched through a loophole"
Editor of "The Early Days of San Francisco" by John Henry Brown.
Editor of "California As It Is & As It May Be"
Douglas S. Watson, X.N.G.H., 2005 Tasso, Palo Alto. 04/02/1875 mothers maiden name BARRY father was a WATSON Male born in NEW YORK last county of residence SANTA CLARA 12/17/1948
Listed as Humbug 1933-1934 with the name Douglas Sylvester Watson.....
He was a prolific contributor to the California Historical Society Quarterly, and wrote "Did the Chinese discover America? A critical examination of the Buddhist priest Hui Shen's account of Fu Sang, and the apochryphal voyage of the Chinese navigator Hee-Li" for that journal in 1935.
He also wrote stories about early California history that were privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club in San Francisco, and the Book Club of California.
An original member of the Yerba Buena 1 chapter of the Revived E Clampus Vitus in the 1930's and as the second Humbug of Chapter 1, he could count all known Humbugs at the time on one hand.......
A California Historian, writer and editor of several history books.
Author of 'West Wind', The life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, the Knight of the Golden Horshoe, an eminent figure of the early fur-trade era, the leader, in 1836, of the first trapping expedition into California over the Sierras.
Author of "The life of Johann August Sutter"
Author of "Yerba Buena, 1846, sketched through a loophole"
Editor of "The Early Days of San Francisco" by John Henry Brown.
Editor of "California As It Is & As It May Be"
Douglas S. Watson, X.N.G.H., 2005 Tasso, Palo Alto. 04/02/1875 mothers maiden name BARRY father was a WATSON Male born in NEW YORK last county of residence SANTA CLARA 12/17/1948
Listed as Humbug 1933-1934 with the name Douglas Sylvester Watson.....
Douglas Sloane Watson (1875-1948) was a writer and editor who specialized in museum-quality limited-edition reprints and facsimiles of early California books and documents.
He was a prolific contributor to the California Historical Society Quarterly, and wrote "Did the Chinese discover America? A critical examination of the Buddhist priest Hui Shen's account of Fu Sang, and the apochryphal voyage of the Chinese navigator Hee-Li" for that journal in 1935.
He also wrote stories about early California history that were privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club in San Francisco, and the Book Club of California.
An original member of the Yerba Buena 1 chapter of the Revived E Clampus Vitus in the 1930's and as the second Humbug of Chapter 1, he could count all known Humbugs at the time on one hand.......
A California Historian, writer and editor of several history books.
Author of 'West Wind', The life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, the Knight of the Golden Horshoe, an eminent figure of the early fur-trade era, the leader, in 1836, of the first trapping expedition into California over the Sierras.
Author of "The life of Johann August Sutter"
Author of "Yerba Buena, 1846, sketched through a loophole"
Editor of "The Early Days of San Francisco" by John Henry Brown.
Editor of "California As It Is & As It May Be"
Douglas S. Watson, X.N.G.H., 2005 Tasso, Palo Alto. 04/02/1875 mothers maiden name BARRY father was a WATSON Male born in NEW YORK last county of residence SANTA CLARA 12/17/1948
Listed as Humbug 1933-1934 with the name Douglas Sylvester Watson.....
He was a prolific contributor to the California Historical Society Quarterly, and wrote "Did the Chinese discover America? A critical examination of the Buddhist priest Hui Shen's account of Fu Sang, and the apochryphal voyage of the Chinese navigator Hee-Li" for that journal in 1935.
He also wrote stories about early California history that were privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club in San Francisco, and the Book Club of California.
An original member of the Yerba Buena 1 chapter of the Revived E Clampus Vitus in the 1930's and as the second Humbug of Chapter 1, he could count all known Humbugs at the time on one hand.......
A California Historian, writer and editor of several history books.
Author of 'West Wind', The life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, the Knight of the Golden Horshoe, an eminent figure of the early fur-trade era, the leader, in 1836, of the first trapping expedition into California over the Sierras.
Author of "The life of Johann August Sutter"
Author of "Yerba Buena, 1846, sketched through a loophole"
Editor of "The Early Days of San Francisco" by John Henry Brown.
Editor of "California As It Is & As It May Be"
Douglas S. Watson, X.N.G.H., 2005 Tasso, Palo Alto. 04/02/1875 mothers maiden name BARRY father was a WATSON Male born in NEW YORK last county of residence SANTA CLARA 12/17/1948
Listed as Humbug 1933-1934 with the name Douglas Sylvester Watson.....
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