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Baja Legends

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Author : Greg Niemann
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780932653475
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Baja Legends written by Greg Niemann and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Baja Fever shares his extensive knowledge of the peninsula, its colorful past and booming present, in this fascinating reference book. History, lore, and amazing stories make it a "must-have" for Bajaphiles as well as armchair travelers.

Greetings from California

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Author : Gary Crabbe
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 0760337284
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Greetings from California written by Gary Crabbe and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, fresh tribute to the Golden State, illustrated with gorgeous color photography, fascinating historical images, and cool memorabilia. Learn anew the legends, landmarks, and lore of historic sites, such as Bodie, Point Reyes, the Knights Ferry Bridge, Mission Santa Barbara, Carson Mansion in Old Town Eureka, Death Valley, Glacier Point, and Alcatraz. Delving into the people, places, and activities that have defined California through the years, this book explores all that makes California great: the Big Sur coast, the Monterey Jazz Festival, Napa Valleys wine country, Hollywood, the redwood trees of Muir Woods, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite Valley, big game fishing, surfing, agriculture, politics, music, sports, and much, much more. Turn the pages for a visual feast of this extraordinary state!

Legends of the California Bandidos

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Author : Angus MacLean
Publisher : Word Dancer Press
ISBN 13 : 9781884995453
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the California Bandidos written by Angus MacLean and published by Word Dancer Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Banditos presents extraordinary, little-known tales of the infamous bandits and highwaymen who plied their trade in early California.

The Californios

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Author : Hunt Janin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476663033
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Californios written by Hunt Janin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Gold Rush of 1848-1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier--and home to a colorful group of Spanish-speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Profiting from the forced labor of large numbers of local Indians, they carved out an almost feudal way of life, raising cattle along the California coast and valleys. Visitors described them as a good-looking, vibrant, improvident people. Many traces of their culture remain in California. Yet their prosperity rested entirely on undisputed ownership of large ranches. As they lost control of these in the wake of the Mexican War, they lost their high status and many were reduced to subsistence-level jobs or fell into abject poverty. Drawing on firsthand contemporary accounts, the authors chronicle the rise and fall of Californio men and women.

California

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Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300225792
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book California written by John Mack Faragher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation "A masterful history."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Faragher takes the reader on a captivating journey through myriad twists and turns of California's multicultural history, enlivened by stories of people who rarely penetrate our traditional state chronicles."--Carlos E. Cortés, University of California, Riverside California is the most multicultural state in America. As John Mack Faragher explains in this new history, California's natural variety has always supported such diversity, including Native peoples speaking dozens of distinct languages, Spanish and Mexican colonists, gold seekers from all corners of the globe, and successive migrant waves from the eastern United States and from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Faragher tells the stories of a colorful cast of characters--some famous, others mostly unknown--including African American Archy Lee, who sued for his freedom; Sinkyone Indian woman Sally Bell, who survived genocide; and Jewish schoolgirl Marilyn Greene, who spoke up for her Japanese friends after the attack on Pearl Harbor. California's diversity has often led to conflict, turmoil, and violence but also to invention, improvisation, and a struggle to achieve multicultural democracy.

The Decline of the Californios

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Author : Leonard Pitt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520016378
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Decline of the Californios written by Leonard Pitt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Decline of the Californios" is one of those rare works that first gained fame for its pathbreaking and original nature, but which now maintains its status as a classic of California and ethnic history."--Douglas Monroy, author of "Thrown among Strangers"

Bear Flag Rising

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Author : Dale L. Walker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312866852
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Bear Flag Rising written by Dale L. Walker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Indians who inhabited the land before the first Europeans saw it through the warfare that would finally leave the province in American hands, this book, by the author of "Legends and Lies", traces the history of California.

Supernatural California

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Author : Preston Dennett
Publisher : Schiffer Book
ISBN 13 : 9780764324017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Supernatural California written by Preston Dennett and published by Schiffer Book. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and comprehensive guidebook to more than 200 locations in California involving the paranormal. History behind locations, events, and interviews with first hand witnesses included. More than 60 illustrations and photographs offer glimpses into the wonders of the Sunshine State. Directions are provided.

Roaring Camp

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Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320992
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Roaring Camp written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.

California's Spiritual Frontiers

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Author : Sandra Sizer Frankiel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520330978
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book California's Spiritual Frontiers written by Sandra Sizer Frankiel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Gateway to Alta California

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Author : Harry Crosby
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780932653574
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Gateway to Alta California written by Harry Crosby and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of this journey through northern Baja California's unexplored wilderness to San Diego is actually two stories, crafted by artful and incisive historian Harry Crosby. The first begins well before the expedition commences and involves world events, politics, and the characters who were destined to forge this momentous march. The second is a daily record of the trek itself, told through first-person diary excerpts and the author's own comments as he followed in their footsteps, mapping this historic route for the first time. Together, they show not only the hardships and victories of blazing the difficult trail, but the resolve of this company of fifty heroic men. Gateway to Alta California contains the author's color maps, which provide a graphic statement of the journey into terra incognita, as well as his black-and-white photos of the largely unchanged terrain. Also included are lists of all Hispanic members of the expedition party -- many identified here for the first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.

The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta

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Author : John Rollin Ridge
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513288431
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta written by John Rollin Ridge and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854) is a novel by John Rollin Ridge. Published under his birth name Yellow Bird, from Cheesquatalawny in Cherokee, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta was the first novel from a Native American author. Despite its popular success worldwide—the novel was translated into French and Spanish—Ridge’s work was a financial failure due to bootleg copies and widespread plagiarism. Recognized today as a groundbreaking work of nineteenth century fiction, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a powerful novel that investigates American racism, illustrates the struggle for financial independence among marginalized communities, and dramatizes the lives of outlaws seeking fame, fortune, and vigilante justice. Born in Mexico, Joaquin Murieta came to California in search of gold. Despite his belief in the American Dream, he soon faces violence and racism from white settlers who see his success as a miner as a personal affront. When his wife is raped by a mob of white men and after Joaquin is beaten by a group of horse thieves, he loses all hope of living alongside Americans and turns to a life of vigilantism. Joined by a posse of similarly enraged Mexican-American men, Joaquin becomes a fearsome bandit with a reputation for brutality and stealth. Based on the life of Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo, also known as The Robin Hood of the West, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta would serve as inspiration for Johnston McCulley’s beloved pulp novel hero Zorro. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a classic work of Native American literature reimagined for modern readers.

The History of Alta California

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Author : Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299149749
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The History of Alta California written by Antonio Maria Osio and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.

The Legend of Freedom Hill

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Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher : Lee & Low Books
ISBN 13 : 9781584301691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Freedom Hill written by Linda Jacobs Altman and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the California Gold Rush Rosabel, an African American, and Sophie, a Jew, team up and search for gold to buy Rosabel's mother her freedom from a slave catcher.

The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

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Author : Leonard L. Richards
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307277577
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War written by Leonard L. Richards and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.

Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936

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Author : Lisbeth Haas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520083806
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936 written by Lisbeth Haas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-05-07 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Study of the Mexican population of Upper California especially around San Juan Capistrano. Addresses culture, economics, and social life"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

History of California

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Author : Theodore Henry Hittell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of California written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: