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Author : Claudine Burnett
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ISBN 13 : 9781881903086
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (3 download)
Download or read book From Barley Fields to Oil Town written by Claudine Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438940440
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Murderous Intent? written by Claudine Burnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudine Burnett has now written another book sure to be savored by those interested in Southern California history. Concentrating on a span of years covering the 1880's to 1920, Ms. Burnett has uncovered fascinating true stories of death and murder. Read about: - The bandit Sylvestro Morales who robbed and murdered his way through the Southland in 1889 and his capture at the Rancho Los Alamitos. - Violence and death amoung the Basque and Mexican sheepherders and sugar beet workers of Southern California. - Long Beach City Trustees hung in effigy and how their attempt to get rid of a local saloon in 1896 brought about the death of the city. - How the murder of a Long Beach policeman in 1912 led to additional tragedy and sorrow but also brought about the adoption of modern criminal investigation. - The kidnapping and torture of a Long Beah youth in 1916 by notorious, insane murderer Harry Thaw, whose killing of famed archtiect Stanford White made headlines around the world. Learn the origin of: - The towns of Long Beach and Los Alamitos - The Pacific Electric "Red Car" and jitney transport systems. - The Long Beach Municipal Band and Long Beach Police Department. Meet: - Lew-is the Light who believed he had a special delivery service to God. - "Whistling" Davis who refused to bury his dead daughter. - Cantankerous "Old Man" Ranous, killed and buried in a pile of manure. - W.L. Jennings, killed by a cat. - The spirits of murder victims who refused to rest. - Pete Labourdette, a notorious Los Alamitos saloon keeper, and the murders he worked to cover up. These are but a few examples from a book you won't want to put down until the very end.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Summary of Operations, California Oil Fields written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Division of Oil and Gas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Summary of Operations, California Oil Fields written by California. Division of Oil and Gas and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Division of Oil and Gas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Summary of Operations, California Oil Fields; Annual Report of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor written by California. Division of Oil and Gas and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivy Harnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Pacific Squab and Poultry Farm written by Ivy Harnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889, during the Great Depression of British Agriculture, the Harnett farm in Kent, England, was suffering financially. With Britain’s refusal to tax grain imports their farm could no longer support a family of eleven children. Ernest and Julia Harnett had a hard decision to make — either leave their beloved England or give up six of their youngest children. It was something they would not do. A letter from a friend who had moved to Southern California wrote of an alcohol free, religious community, with good farm land. They made up their minds. They would move to the American Colony — created a few years earlier by a fellow Englishman, William Willmore. There they would create a new life on the Pacific Squab and Poultry Farm. Follow their journey across the Atlantic and explore their new home — an area called Burnett, close to Signal Hill, which would eventually become part of Long Beach, California. Get to know each of the members of the Harnett family through the eyes of Ivy Harnett, the first of three children to be born in America. There is Jane (Bessie), a teacher, who left an indelible mark on California history; Norah and Josie who found love and marriage in faraway Alaska; Anne, the artist; Kathleen, the top student graduate at UC Berkley; Ethel; Helen; Jack, the engineer; Tom and his milling company; Edward and Frank, Long Beach civil servants who contributed much to the growth of the city. Learn of the tragic deaths of Geoffrey, Caroline, and the patriarch of the family, Ernest Harnett, struck by a hit and run driver a few weeks after his daughter Jane’s death. This true story, is sure to entertain, taking readers to a past that once was, and a family who refused to leave any child behind.
Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452054487
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Haunted Long Beach 2 written by Claudine Burnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudine Burnett, author of popular Murderous Intent and Strange Sea Tales Along the Southern California Coast, has at last revised and updated the long out of print Haunted Long Beach. New stories and updates have come her way since the original Haunted Long Beach was published in 1996. Now readers can rediscover the "ghostly" side of one of America's finest cities----haunted houses, phantom airplanes, cemetery apparitions, and ghosts of the Queen Mary come alive in these true stories of eerie happenings in Long Beach, California. Gathered from historical files and personal experiences, Ms. Burnett has researched these stories extensively to try to find historical evidence as to their cause. All in all, these ghostly tales are sure to entertain both visitors and residents alike.
Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477291628
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Prohibition Madness written by Claudine Burnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout America cocktail parties sparkled defiantly through the dreaded first minutes of January 20, 1920. With morning would come the official start of Prohibition. It was easy, however, to keep the party going in Long Beach, California. Though Long Beach had been "dry" throughout most of its history, illegal liquor distribution throughout the city was already perfected by the time the 18th Amendment, banning the sale of most alcoholic beverages, became law. Already in place were underground booze operations, secretive speakeasies and bootlegging, the perfect staging ground for crime, corruption AND murder. READ ABOUT: Oil - The one discovery that made Long Beach different from the rest of 1920's and 30's America and would change the life of the city in many unforeseen ways. Good vs. Evil - Murders, gun battles, lawlessness ...the city was a battleground between the influences of good and evil. Involved in the battle was the Ku Klux Klan, Communists, rum runners, bootleggers, gangsters, and corrupt politicians. MEET: Hollywood celebrities William Desmond Taylor, Fatty Arbuckle and other well-known figures who ended up dead, or their careers ruined, because of rampant corruption and illicit booze. Gangsters such as Al Capone's henchman Ralph Sheldon, who gunned down Long Beach policeman William Waggoner, and got away with it. Bootleggers like Thomas Johnstone, murdered by his wife when he refused to give up his nefarious profession. Oil swindlers, many influenced by C.C. Julian and his Ponzi scheme that bilked thousands out of their life savings. Murderers such as Bluebeard Watson, who killed most of his 15 wives until one of them became suspicious. These are just a few of the individuals and matters discussed in this eye opening account of Long Beach and Southern California during the 1920's and 30's.
Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665558806
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Animal Tales (Some a Little Fishy) written by Claudine Burnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about: • An opossum who enjoyed X-rated movies. • A canine thief with an appetite for eggs. • A man who lost out on $38,000 in valuable pearls because he liked his oysters cooked instead of raw. • Strange events and creatures off the California coast. • A recipe for Pius IV’s favorite dish — frog livers. • A statewide event where California school children were asked to kill as many ground squirrels as possible, verifying their kills by bringing the tails to school! These are but a few of the stories largely centered around Long Beach, California, which have appeared over the past 130 years. Most have remained forgotten, until now. How much is true and how much “tongue in cheek” I will leave up to the reader to decide. In any case, they are they are fun, humorous and sure to entertain.
Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524611018
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Died in Long Beach written by Claudine Burnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Beach was one of the many Southern California cities that grew out of the railroad fare wars of the late 1880s. It was built by men and women who toiled to make it the great metropolis it is today. These are the tales of those who died or are buried in Long Beach. Some were illustrious in their time, others just common folk with interesting stories to tell. Politicians, city founders, visitors, influenza victims, Civil War veterans and accident victims are all discussed here, as well as the hospitals, doctors, undertakers and others who cared for the dead and dying. But what makes Long Beachs Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries different from all others is the question of whether the bodies said to be there still remain. The cemetery wars of the 1920s erupted when oil was discovered on Signal Hill. Oil and other debris ran over the graves and the promised mausoleum that many had already paid for was cast aside in favor of black gold. People were angry, barricading themselves by the cemeteries gates to prevent oil rigs from getting to the mausoleum site. Slant drilling caused headstones and markers to sink into the ground, graves were covered by the run off debris from the oil fields above. Many bodies were moved, their headstones left behind, with haphazard records kept of where the corpses were relocated. It would take a 10 year court case to determine if the dead still had rights. In this book you will learn about the fascinating history of Long Beachs unique cemeteries, the stories of those said to be buried in them, and whether Long Beachs cities of the dead may be haunted by angry souls whose final abode did not allow them to rest in peace.
Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 166551678X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book African Americans in Long Beach and Southern California: a History written by Claudine Burnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial discrimination and unrest are intertwined with the history of Long Beach and Southern California in Ms. Burnett’s latest book. African Americans in Long Beach and Southern California begins in the 1800s and continues to 1970, reaching into later years to describe what that history has led to today. Ms. Burnett spent over five years researching recently digitized African American newspapers which has allowed her access to the black perspective on issues rarely written about in the white press or by other authors. Personal stories, legislation, Southland history and possible solutions to decades old problems are presented, making for an interesting and informative read. It is a unique work, sure to open the eyes of many.
Author : Claudine Burnett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239568
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Surfing Newport Beach written by Claudine Burnett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corona del Mar was once California's premier surfing spot, holding the sport's first Pacific Coast competition in 1928. Attempts to tame Corona and to make the Newport Beach harbor mouth safe for watercraft drastically altered board riding, destroying the great "wave-making machine" of Corona and creating the surf giant of today known as the "Wedge." Read about Newport before World War II: experience the Great Rescue of 1925 by Duke Kahanamoku and others, the rum runners of Balboa and the evolution of Newport Bay. Pioneering surfers such as George Freeth, Tom Blake, the Vultee brothers and Pete Peterson helped make a name for the city in surf culture. Authors Claudine Burnett and her surfer husband, Paul, have delved deeply into the past, sharing stories that will give readers never-before-revealed facts not only about surfing but Newport Beach and Corona del Mar history as well.
Author : Tom Dirsa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387946587
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Leduc: Then & Now written by Tom Dirsa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history book about the City of Leduc from 1890 to 2018. It tells a story about the people, events, and organizations that contributed to the development of Leduc.
Author : James Miller Guinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Historical written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Summary of Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Miller Guinn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Title to Submerged Lands Beneath Tidal and Navigable Waters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation to confirm the title of states to lands and resources in and beneath navigable waters within state boundaries. Also considers dispute between the state of California and the Federal Government over the proper title to lands off the coast of California.
