Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

The Spanish Missions of California

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Utah

The California Gold Rush


Tales of the Spanish Southwest: Stories of the Spanish rule in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. 1946 Spanish Reader.

~ The book is old but the binding is still good. The cover has some age wear on the corners and spine as shown in the photos. The inside of the cover has a name in ink.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Mexico

Tales of the Spanish Southwest : Stories of the Spanish rule in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. 1946 Spanish Reader

Hector Lee

The cover has little wear. It is slightly folded in the corners

California

20 Tales of California

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Kevin Starr

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Nevada

California Enters The 1940s

The 1930s were the heyday of the Hollywood studios, and Starr brilliantly captures Hollywood films and the society that surrounded the studios.

The Dream Endures

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Colorado

A History

Presents a comprehensive history of the state of California describing its early native peoples, Spanish conquest, the Gold Rush of 1848, the railroad, San Francisco earthquake, and much more.

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Hemet Area Museum Association

The breathtaking San Jacinto Valley, with Mount San Jacinto on its eastern boundary, is home to the community of Hemet, conceived by two developers in the late 19th century. These San Francisco entrepreneurs built the Great Lake Hemet Dam, Lake Hemet, and the distribution system from the mountain lake to the valley, which provided a year-round water supply. With fertile lands and abundant water, people were lured from the East Coast and Midwest to purchase land and settle in the fledging town and on the farmlands around it. From its origins as a farm town, Hemet evolved as a retirement center and a bedroom city, as well as a bustling commercial hub. Along the way, it became the home of the world-famous Ramona Outdoor Play. Indeed Hemet prospered, and in 2008 more than 150,000 people live in the city and on surrounding lands.

Hemet

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Del Wilcox

1993 Sea Rock Press paperback edition. Clean text with many photos and illustrations. Tight binding. No markings inside and no creased pages. Cover in excellent condition with no edge ware or edge creases. Super nice copy.

Voyagers to California

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William H. Brewer

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Journal of William H. Brewer

The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.

Up and down California in 1860-1864

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Terry L. Ommen

Outlaws, Rogues and Rebels

In the 1800s, Tulare County, California, was a hotbed of desperate characters whose deadly gunplay and murderous inclinations left a trail of bodies across the region. Although the Central Valley now makes its name in agriculture, Tulare County was once a bastion of the Wild West with a lineup of hardened criminals that has scarcely been equaled in the annals of crime. Train bandits, coldblooded murderers and callous outlaws armed with shotguns and butcher knives plagued Visalia, Porterville and other sleepy central California towns. Join historian and retired Visalia Police captain Terry Ommen as he relates the transgressions of Tulare County's roughest characters, including thrilling tales of the pistol-packing Mason-Henry Gang, a deadly duel between politically divided journalists and vigilante justice exacted by angry mobs.

Wild Tulare County

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California Missions

Jo Ann Levy

Signed by author. Does have inscriptions from previous owner

Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California

By the end of 1849, an estimated thirty-nine thousand gold-seekers had arrived in San Francisco by sea, and some thirty thousand others had crossed the continent on land. Another eighty-six thousand would arrive in 1850. According to the census for that year. there were twelve men for every woman in California. But who would want them? The words "gold rush" generate at best an image of raucous, all-male camaraderie, at worst a storm of lawless and irredeemable violence. Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham, a young widow who had already generated considerable attention for herself as the matron of Sing Sing prison, had a vision for California. "Woman, with all her kindly cares and powers, so peculiarly conservative to man under such circumstances," would bring a civilizing influence to the state. Farnham's vision went beyond gentility however, to a society in which individuals -- male or female -- could fulfill their potential, and virtues championed by free-thinking New England philosophers would reign supreme. The realities of everyday life in gold-rush California were daunting, but when Farnham's friend Georgiana Bruce (later Kirby) joined her the following year, hope returned in full measure: "She fills up a great place in my dark world and comes to me like a pleasant breeze or a bright sun after one of our long rains. We are going to be very independent and free...dashing about at our discretion." The stories of these "sisters on the way to the vast Beyond," as Farnham called them, could not be told separately. With insight, wit, and telling detail, JoAnn Levy relates the scope and outcome of their quest for human perfectibility in this account of two remarkable and redoubtable women in frontier California. Book jacket.

Unsettling the West

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D. J. Waldie

A Suburban Memoir

Describing childhood in suburban California, a poignant portrait of growing up in the grid of tract houses and carefully measured streets illustrates the good, the bad, and the difficulties found in being ordinary.

Holy Land

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Robert P. Lowman

The Spanish Missions of California

May McNeer

The California Gold Rush

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Tales of the Spanish Southwest : Stories of the Spanish rule in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. 1946 Spanish Reader

Hector Lee

20 Tales of California

Kevin Starr

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Del Wilcox

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William H. Brewer

Up and down California in 1860-1864

Terry L. Ommen

Wild Tulare County

Ralph B. Wright

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Jo Ann Levy; Kevin Starr

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