California History articles from January 2005

California History archives from January 2005

From the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2005... Place matters. Anywhere at all; anywhere you roam, if you stop to think about it, place matters. Conservation of forests in the place called Kenya, and sustainability of ecologies there, have been the focus of Kenyan environmentalist...

Sweetheart of the Rodeo.(Jo Mora, Wild West in art)(Brief Article)(Biography)
January 1, 2005... Fascinated since childhood by stories of the Wild West, Jo Mora, born Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876-1947) in Montevideo, Uruguay, created posters, photographs, and sculptures that broadened conceptions of the mythic West to include Californios,...

Silver and gold in Northern San Diego County.(CALIFORNIA JOURNEYS)
January 1, 2005... We all fantasize about winning things--the California Lottery, say, or the new convertible Mini Cooper on the public radio pledge drive. So winning a night at the Pala Indian Casino in northern San Diego County was--if not a dream come true--a...

Landmarks.(TEACHING CALIFORNIA)
January 1, 2005... "Don't step there!" My friend Harrison has a seven-year-old's keen interest in gross things, and I look on the sidewalk for chewing gum, dead worms, or worst of all, dog poop. There's nothing there. "I don't see anything." "Cooties,"...

Ansel Adams's eucalyptus tree, fort ross: nature, photography, and the search for California.
January 1, 2005... As Ansel Adams prepared for the exhibition of his Singular Images at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1974, he looked back over his illustrious career and complained. "Curator after curator had chosen the same small group of landscapes," he...

Marmorata: the famed mud turtle of the San Francisco market.
January 1, 2005... Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Christmas Dinner, 1904 "Mock Turtle, Premartin 30 cents" "Clear Green Turtle, Granday 50 cents" "Terrapin Maryland $2.50" The western pond turtle, or terrapin as it was once known, was historically...

Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants, April 1958.
January 1, 2005... The Los Angeles Dodgers may have begun and the Brooklyn Dodgers may have ended on a pleasant October day in Los Angeles in 1956. After losing to the New York Yankees in the World Series, the Dodgers flew cross-country on their way to a goodwill...

Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... GOLD RUSH CAPITALISTS: GREED AND GROWTH IN SACRAMENTO By Mark. A. Eifler (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002, 280 pp., $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper) Throughout modern California history, the city of Sacramento has played a...

The Bad City in the Good War.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... THE BAD CITY IN THE GOOD WAR By Roger W. Lotchin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003, 314 pp., $49.95 cloth, $59.95 paper) The Good War, as we have all come to understand, is World War II. The Bad City, as Roger W. Lotchin...

The California Grizzy: Bear in Mind.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... THE CALIFORNIA GRIZZLY: BEAR IN MIND Edited by Susan Snyder (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2003, 244 pp., $60 cloth) California is the only one of our fifty states that has an extinct animal on its flag. This ironic situation began when...

Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes.(Traces of Gold: California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... UNFOLDING BEAUTY: CELEBRATING CALIFORNIA'S LANDSCAPES Edited with an Introduction by Terry Beers (Santa Clara and Berkeley: Santa Clara University and Heyday Books, 2001, 418 pp., $17.95 paper) TRACES OF GOLD: CALIFORNIA'S NATURAL...

The Trial of "Indian Joe": Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West.(Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... THE TRIAL OF "INDIAN JOE": RACE AND JUSTICE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY WEST By Clare V. McKanna, Jr. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003, 143 pp., $35 cloth) MURDER AT THE SLEEPY LAGOON: ZOOT SUITS, RACE, AND RIOT IN...

Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... GOING PLACES: TRANSPORTATION REDEFINES THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WEST By Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003, xix, 419 pp., $39.95 cloth) Professor Schwantes defines the West as everything beyond the...

Historic Spots in California.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... HISTORIC SPOTS IN CALIFORNIA By Douglas E. Kyle (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002, revised ed., xvii, 661 pp., $75 cloth, $34.95 paper) Historic Spots in California is the definitive guide to historic sites in California. The...

Free to Die for their Country: the Story of Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... FREE TO DIE FOR THEIR COUNTRY: THE STORY OF JAPANESE AMERICAN DRAFT RESISTERS IN WORLD WAR II By Eric L. Muller (University of Chicago Press, 2003, 250 pp., $27.50 cloth, $15 paper). Near the U.S. capitol building stands the National...

Checklist.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2005... The Checklist provides notice of publications that portray the diverse and exceptional nature of California. Readers and publishers who wish to call attention to recent works, including reprints, are requested to send the following information...

Spotlight.(Alice Burr, photographer)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2005... TELEGRAPH HILL, SAN FRANCISCO At the turn of the century, San Francisco's artists latched onto photography as a fine art with great enthusiasm. The Camera Club of California was founded in 1892 and by 1900 was the largest such club in the...