Thirty-five years after its initial publication, The Golden State remains a balanced, multicultural, and interpretative history, the ideal text for students of California history at the high school and community college level. With due attention to the many peoples who make California the most ethnically diverse state in the nation as well as the daunting environmental realities that ...

Manufacturer: Harlan Davidson
Written By: Andrew F. Rolle, John S. Gaines

Manufacturer: Fearon Publishers
Written By: Glendon J. Rodgers

Forgotten Faces - A Window Into Our Immigrant Past reveals, for the first time, lost American history encapsulated in a beautiful but neglected art form. Forgotten Faces is the first book to explore memorial portraiture as a distinctive art form and acknowledge its contribution to our country’s valued history. In doing so, it reveals a never-before-published photo-panorama of American ...

Manufacturer: Personal Genesis Publishing
Written By: Ronald William Horne, Lisa Montanarelli

Historical accounts of California tell of flocks of birds so dense in the sky that they cast a shadow on the ground, and of thunderous rivers of geese, ducks, and swans moving down the state to the lagoons of Mexico and beyond. Today, citizens and travelers in California take for granted skies empty of almost everything but the contrails of airplanes. But far more than wildlife is missing from ...

Manufacturer: University of California Press
Written By: Robert Dawson, Gray Brechin

First published in 1994 and now available again, this Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California. Jesuit missionaries founded their first settlement in 1697 and unintentionally created a Hispanic society that outlived the missions and their Indian converts. The author brings to light Jesuit missionization and ...

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
Written By: Harry W. Crosby

This legal biography of the California cattle company Miller & Lux illuminates the relationship between law, economic change, and the distribution of wealth and power. It examines law in an environment undergoing rapid development, where the rules governing resources, especially water, were in contention. From the 1870s through the 1930s, Miller & Lux looked to the law to mediate its place ...

Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Written By: M. Catherine Miller

Bestselling author Jean Strauss's memoir about her quest to unearth her past is an incredibly funny and touching journey that redefines the meaning of family and celebrates the universal connections that link us all. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Manufacturer: Arete-U S a Pub Co
Written By: Jean A.S. Strauss

Artist and writer Elisha Cooper is new to California, which is why he traveled up and down the state to acquaint himself with it. Along the way he visited numerous locales and encountered dozens of characters that typify the diviersity and rich eccentricity that somehow only the Golden State can accommodate. With an observant eye, he made his way from Eureka to Joshua Tree, Yosemite to ...

Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
Written By: Elisha Cooper

The January 1848 discovery of gold nuggets in the South Fork of the American River started a rush to the foothills of the Siera Nevada that lasted more than two decades. The tale of gold for the taking was told and retold in a multitude of tongues and on several continets. Jews from many lands and speaking many languages were among the thousands of individuals who made the difficult journey ...

Manufacturer: Judah L. Magnes Museum
Written By: Susan Morris

Gold high on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada brought hundreds of miners racing to Lake Mining District and the boom town of Mammoth City. Mammoth Gold brings back to life the brief but tumultuous years of 1877 to 1881, when hopes leaped sky-high, then abruptly faded and died. It was gold high on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada that had brought prospectors racing to Mammoth City, ...

Manufacturer: Genny Smith Books
Written By: Gary Caldwell