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California History articles from December 2007
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California History archives from December 2007
Place shines.(FROM THE EDITOR)
December 22, 2007... Occupying its own place on the last page of California History, our Spotlight feature is meant to evoke a lasting impression on readers. Material is abundant: The only criterion is that each selection be an iconic or otherwise memorable...
Record book of the minutes and proceedings of the San Francisco Ladies Protection and Relief Society, 1853-1857.(COLLECTIONS)(Brief article)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
"Small quarto, 284 pp., plus blanks, original marbled boards, leather backstrip, spine nearly perished, front board detached, but present, rear board nearly so, former owner's bookplate, inscribed in ink in neat...
Empowerment, expansion, and engagement: las juntas patrioticas in California, 1848-1869.(Report)
December 22, 2007... The traditional view of Latinos (1) in California from statehood in 1850 to the early twentieth century is captured in the title of one the most widely known histories of the period: The Decline of the Californios. In his foundational text,...
Mary Austin and Andrew Forbes: poetry, photography, and the Eastern Sierra.(Mary Hunter Austin and Andrew Alexander Forbes )
December 22, 2007... The origin of mountain streams is like the origin of tears, patent to the understanding but mysterious to the sense," Mary Austin wrote of the snow-fed rivers that cascaded down the sheer gorges of the Eastern Sierra. The haunting beauty of the...
The land of Big Sur: conservation on the California coast.
December 22, 2007... Of Big Sur, Henry Miller observed: "Paradise or no paradise, I have the very definite impression that the people of this vicinity are striving to live up to the grandeur and nobility which is such an integral part of this setting. They behave...
Testimonios: Early California Through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... TESTIMONIOS: EARLY CALIFORNIA THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN, 1815-1848
Translated with introduction and commentary by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2007, 512 pp., illus., $27.50 cloth, $18.95 paper)
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After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... AFTER THE GOLD RUSH: TARNISHED DREAMS IN THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY
By David Vaught (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 328 pp., illus., $55.00 cloth)
THIS IS THE STORY of a small group of farmers who arrived at Putah...
Wells Fargo.(Book review)
December 22, 2007... By Dr. Robert J. Chandler (Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006, 128 pp., illus., $19.99 paper)
SOMETIMES, TRUISMS (so called) must be heavily discounted as cliches. But one of them, dating at least to the Ming dynasty, is...
Spotlight.(Edward Weston was awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship)(Brief article)
December 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]
In March 1937 Edward Weston became the first photographer to receive a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. The grant allowed Weston and his wife, Charis Wilson, to travel throughout California,...