Stephen F. Austin State University Jacks (Images of Sports)
by Hardy Meredith and Archie P McDonald
In this vivid account of the birth of modern California, J S Holliday frames the gold rush years within the larger story of the state's transformation from the quietude of a Mexican hinterland in the 1840's to the forefront of entrepreneurial capitalism by the 1890's. No other state, no nation experienced such an adolescence of freedom and success. By 1883 California was hailed as 'America, only more so'. Holliday's boldly interpretive narrative has the authority and immediacy of an eyewitness a...
San Francisco's Chinatown
by Judy Yung and Chinese Historical Society of America
Long Beach Art Deco
by John W Thomas, J Christopher Launi, and Suzanne Tarbell Cooper
Two Years Before the Mast (American, #302) (Signet Books)
by Richard Henry Dana
Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) of Boston left his studies at Harvard in 1834 in the hope that a sea voyage would aid his failing eyesight. He shipped out of Boston as a common seaman on board the brig Pilgrim bound for the Pacific, and returned to Massachusetts two years later. Completing his education, Dana became a leader of the American bar, an expert on maritime law, and a life-long advocate of the rights of the merchant seamen he had come to know on the Pilgrim and other vessels. Two years...
Even before internment, Japanese largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. The first-generation American children, the Nisei, were American citizens, spoke English, and were integrated in public schools, yet were also socially isolated in many ways from their peers and subject to racism. Their daughters especially found rapport in a flourishing network of ethnocultural youth organizations. Until now, these groups have remained hidden from the historical r...
San Luis Obispo County Wine (American Palate)
by Libbie Agran and Heather Muran
Gold Rush Saints (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier)
by Kenneth N. Owens
From 1846 to 1857 Mormons played a crucial role in shaping events in California and the West. They were the first American settlers of San Francisco, and without them, John Sutter might not have built his sawmill and thus discovered gold in 1848.In Gold Rush Saints, Kenneth N. Owens combines narrative history and documentary accounts to reveal a hidden wealth of California and Mormon history. The first-person accounts of pioneer Mormons, both men and women, offer new perspectives on myths and re...
Mines of Alpine, Inyo and Mono Counties, California
by California Bureau of Mines