By Brian McGinty
Daring, flamboyant, extravagant, devious, visionary, Agoston Haraszthy (1812-1869) is without doubt one of the so much fascinating—and elusive—figures within the historical past of yankee agriculture. except his pioneer efforts to set up a world-class wine in California, he holds different vital differences: he used to be the 1st Hungarian to completely settle within the usa, writer of in basic terms the second one Hungarian-language booklet in regards to the usa, founding father of one of many earliest cities in Wisconsin, and proprietor and operator of the 1st steamboat to have interaction in usually scheduled site visitors at the higher Mississippi River.Lured by way of the invention of gold to go the plains to California in 1849, Haraszthy grew to become the 1st sheriff of San Diego, a member of the California legislature, and the 1st assayer of the us Mint in San Francisco. lengthy desirous about the opportunity of transforming into nice eu grapes in the US, he moved in 1856 to northern California’s Sonoma Valley, the place he equipped the 1st stone wineries in California, brought greater than three hundred kinds of ecu grapes, and planted (or helped his acquaintances plant) greater than one thousand acres of selection wine vineyards. He made a well-publicized wine travel of Europe in 1862, wrote the 1st outstanding booklet on California wine transforming into, and equipped his Sonoma property into what was once broadly marketed as “the biggest winery within the world.”In this ebook, the 1st full-length biography of 1 of nineteenth-century America’s finest and influential immigrants, the writer examines Haraszthy’s impressive lifestyles, dispels a number of the myths that experience accumulated round him, and makes a cautious evaluation of his contributions to American immigration and agricultural historical past.
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Title : Strong Wine : The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy author : McGinty, Brian. publisher : Stanford University Press isbn10 | asin : 0804731462 print isbn13 : 9780804731461 ebook isbn13 : 9780585047386 language : English subject Haraszthy, Agoston,--1812-1869, Vintners--California--Biography, Viticulturists--California--Biography. 2/2/092 subject : Haraszthy, Agoston,--1812-1869, Vintners--California--Biography, Viticulturists--California--Biography. Strong Wine Strong Wine The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy Brian McGinty STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS STANFORD, CALIFORNIA Stanford University Press Stanford, California � 1998 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Printed in the United States of America Quotation from Vintage: The Story of Wine by Hugh Johnson (Simon & Schuster, 1989, first published by Mitchell Beazley, UK) by permission of Mitchell Beazley Frontispiece: Portrait of Agoston Haraszthy by William Shew, San Francisco.
Brian McGinty Contents Introduction 1 1. The Young Noble 11 2. A Little Estate in the South 33 3. To America 54 4. A "City" on the Frontier 68 5. A Traveler's Tale 84 6. A Home on the Prairie 107 7. An American Cincinnatus 127 8. News from Far Away 139 9. Across the Plains 152 10. And On to the Promised Land 167 11. A Genial Climate 177 12. Pillars of the Community 187 13. Drawing a Line 205 14. An Indian "War" 215 15. The Legislature 226 16. Las Flores and Crystal Springs 242 17. A House of Gold 260 18.
No records have been found verifying this part of his education, although it seems entirely plausible. 39 The Bodyguard (called the Magyar királyi testõrség in Hungary) was established in 1760 by Maria Theresa in her capacity as Queen of Hungary to provide opportunities for outstanding young nobles to come to Vienna for four years of intimate contact with the Hapsburg court. A special palace was built in Vienna to house the young men, two of whom were elected to represent each of the Hungarian counties.