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Author : Daisy Williamson De Veer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Story of Rancho San Antonio written by Daisy Williamson De Veer and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948874
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book San Francisco in the 1930s written by Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it," according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize the Transamerica Building’s pyramid. This invaluable Depression-era guide to San Francisco relates the city’s history from the vantage point of the 1930s, describing its culture and highlighting the important tourist attractions of the time. David Kipen’s lively introduction revisits the city’s literary heritage—from Bret Harte to Kenneth Rexroth, Jade Snow Wong, and Allen Ginsberg—as well as its most famous landmarks and historic buildings. This rich and evocative volume, resonant with portraits of neighborhoods and districts, allows us a unique opportunity to travel back in time and savor the City by the Bay as it used to be.
Author : Los Angeles County Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Books and Notes written by Los Angeles County Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Betsy Wood
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483490998
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Pioneers of Bryson & the Sapaque Valley: A History of Early Pioneers written by Betsy Wood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a non-fiction history of the Pioneers who settled in the Bryson or Sapaque Valley of Southern Monterey County, California. This book follows their adventures and heartaches, locates their homesteads, records their descendants. It is a glimpse into the past.
Author : California Historical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book California Historical Society Quarterly written by California Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W.W. Robinson
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5877751794
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Land in California written by W.W. Robinson and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1979 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land in California, the story of mission land, ranches, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, homesteads
Author : Richard Steven Street
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804738804
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Beasts of the Field written by Richard Steven Street and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a comprehensive tour de force. Scene by scene, the epic narrative clarifies and breathes new life into a controversial and instructive saga long surrounded by myth, conjecture, and scholarly neglect. With its panoramic view spanning 144 years and moving from the US-Mexico border to Oregon, Beasts of the Field reveals diverse patterns of life and labor in the fields that varied among different crops, regions, time periods, and racial and ethic groups. Enormous in scope, packed with surprising twists and turns, and devastating in impact, this compelling, revelatory work of American social history will inform generations to come of the history of California and the nation.
Author : Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782713
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book De León, a Tejano Family History written by Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, 2004 San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005 La familia de León was one of the foundation stones on which Texas was built. Martín de León and his wife Patricia de la Garza left a comfortable life in Mexico for the hardships and uncertainties of the Texas frontier in 1801. Together, they established family ranches in South Texas and, in 1824, the town of Victoria and the de León colony on the Guadalupe River (along with Stephen F. Austin's colony, the only completely successful colonization effort in Texas). They and their descendents survived and prospered under four governments, as the society in which they lived evolved from autocratic to republican and the economy from which they drew their livelihood changed from one of mercantile control to one characterized by capitalistic investments. Combining the storytelling flair of a novelist with a scholar's concern for the facts, Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm here recounts the history of three generations of the de León family. She follows Martín and Patricia from their beginnings in Mexico through the establishment of the family ranches in Texas and the founding of the de León colony and the town of Victoria. Then she details how, after Martín's death in 1834, Patricia and her children endured the Texas Revolution, exile in New Orleans and Mexico, expropriation of their lands, and, after returning to Texas, years of legal battles to regain their property. Representative of the experiences of many Tejanos whose stories have yet to be written, the history of the de León family is the story of the Tejano settlers of Texas.
Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597143855
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Gold Rush Stories written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Hellacious California!, deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, full of brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the first African American judge, and Eliza Farnham, an early feminist who founded California's first association to advocate for women's civil rights. Still others were eccentrics—perhaps none more so than San Francisco's self-styled king, Norton I, Emperor of the United States. As Gold Rush Stories relates the social tumult of the world rushing in, so too does it unearth the environmental consequences of the influx, including the destructive flood of yellow ooze (known as “slickens”) produced by the widespread and relentless practice of hydraulic mining. In the hands of a native son of the Sierra, these stories and dozens more reveal the surprising and untold complexities of the Gold Rush. “Seamlessly fuses academic rigor, original reporting and emotional intensity into one meditation on an era.... If the task of the historian is to be faithful to lost truths, then Noy's latest exploration succeeds on every level, and does so in a way that will keep readers wanting to dig deeper into the past.”—Scott Thomas Anderson, Sierra Lodestar “An original and lively look at all the usual suspects, plus bears, weather, women, Joaquín, disappointment and dissipation…. Exhaustively researched and highly entertaining.”—JoAnn Levy, author of They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
Author : Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299149749
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
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.
Author : Cathryn Grant
Publisher : D2C Perspectives
ISBN 13 : 0991660544
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Madison Keith Ghost Stories: Volume Three written by Cathryn Grant and published by D2C Perspectives. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I never believed in ghosts until I became acquainted with Madison Keith." This collection includes novellas seven through nine in the Madison Keith Ghost Story series: Last Chance, Eaten Alive, Empty Home. Even though she doesn’t believe in them, Pastor Kate believes she’s been assaulted by a ghost in the novella, Last Chance. She asks Madison to spend a few nights at the home where she’s helping one of the church deacons and his wife with their new baby. Not only does Madison encounter a ghost who is bloody with pain, she alienates her hosts with her constant questions about the history of the quirky, moldy house. When Madison encounters the ghost herself, none of her questions are answered. When she pushes harder to find out the identity of the angry spirit, JD tells her she doesn’t need to investigate, not all ghosts are her responsibility. Madison is determined to get an answer. Will she also find the courage to look for answers to murders in her own past? In the eighth novella, Madison feels she’s being “eaten alive” with thoughts about her past, but when she asks Pastor Joe for time off to look for closure, he questions her commitment to her job. When she discovers her murdered neighbor’s body, she resorts to minor crimes herself to find out more about his life. An ugly ghost with cryptic messages and an uncertain identity drives her curiosity to the point of obsession. In the ninth ghost story in this series, Madison is determined to get some answers about the ghosts from her past. Returning to her childhood home, she finds more than she bargained for: a detective who no longer cares, an aunt and uncle who are not the people she thought they were, and a ghost from a different murder altogether. Her desire to find out the truth pushes her close to the edge. Both the living and the dead like to reveal their secrets to Madison. As the administrative assistant in the basement office of a suburban church, she gets plenty of opportunity to hear from both. Through it all, Madison continues to offer up a steady stream of opinions on everything from the subject of religion and ghosts to finding a soul mate.
Author : Mary J. Gates
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Contributions to Local History written by Mary J. Gates and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tracy Salcedo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493017977
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Hiking through History San Francisco Bay Area written by Tracy Salcedo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine hiking along a wooded trail near San Francisco and stumbling upon the stone foundation of a crumbled building, the wooden slats of the walls caved in, the ironwork of the hinges still dangling on the burned out door. This discovery piques your interest—what is this? What’s its significance? How can you find out? Enter Hiking through History San Francisco Bay Area: Exploring the Region's Past by Trail. Make no mistake—this is a hiking book first and foremost, complete with rich photos and detailed maps, but with added extras and sidebars detailing enough historical information to satisfy every curiosity along the way.
Author : Marjorie Pierce
Publisher : Great West Books
ISBN 13 : 9780934136112
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book East of the Gabilans written by Marjorie Pierce and published by Great West Books. This book was released on 1981-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two centuries the peaceful grasslands east of the Gabilans in San Benito and south Santa Clara counties have captivated Californians. East of the Gabilans is a unique history of this special land.Here is the record of the Spanish and Mexican land grants, the ranchos of pre-American California, the lives of the Spanish and Mexicans, and the advent of the Americans in the 1840s and 1850s -- the Castros, the Breens, the towns of San Juan Bautista, Hollister, Gilroy, and Tres Pinos, and Henry Miller, the Cattle King,
