California History articles from January 2006

California History archives from January 2006

Geology's guests.(FROM THE EDITOR)
January 1, 2006... In California, we live with geological enormity. Everywhere, we see and feel the force of geology: In the Sierra, we gaze up and marvel at the tallest mountains in the continental United States, and only miles away, in Death Valley, we cast our...

Jack London's flask.(COLLECTIONS)(photographers)
January 1, 2006... Like other opportunistic journalists and photographers, Jack London (1876-1916) rushed to San Francisco to observe the effects of the 1906 earthquake and fires, commemorated in this issue of California History. London and his second wife...

Santa Cruz Island.(CALIFORNIA JOURNEYS)(Geographic overview)
January 1, 2006... "A volcano!" My five-year-old nephew Ellis catches his first sight of Santa Cruz Island from the Island Packers catamaran. It's a chilly and gray winter morning, and only a hesitant peak peers through the low clouds. I had expected we would...

Sixty stories in search of a city.
January 1, 2006... Recent scholarship in cultural and literary studies has shown how narrative and the stories we tell shape knowledge and our perception of the world. This is true for understanding people, politics, cultures, and economies as well as our...

Sunny Jim in the boiling cauldron: the fatal first year of the Rolph administration.(James Rolph, Jr.)(Biography)
January 1, 2006... In late 1929 James Rolph, Jr., was nearing the end of an unprecedented fifth term as mayor of San Francisco. He was a flamboyant, charismatic man, whose genuine warmth had made him an icon in the Bay Area and one of the most admired politicians...

The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... By Philip L. Fradkin (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2005, 418 pp., $27.50) The Katrina catastrophe has reprised what has fortunately been an infrequent event in our national history: the destruction--outside...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
January 1, 2006... In volume 83, no. 2 (2005), on page 37, the following paragraph is missing from "On a Caseby-Case Basis: Ethnicity and the Los Angeles Courts, 1850-1875," by Paul R. Spitzzeri: For assaults [see Table 5], there were 304 cases, 184...

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... TENDING THE WILD: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources By M. Kat Anderson (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005, 526 pp., $50 cloth) This important book makes three significant points...

Native Americans and the Archaeology of the Rancho Petaluma.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE RANCHO PETALUMA By Stephen W. Silliman (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004, 253 pp., $39.95 cloth) On the cover of Professor Stephen Silliman's Lost Laborers in Colonial California,...

California Jews.(California's Arab Americans)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... CALIFORNIA JEWS By Marc Dollinger and Ava F. Kahn, eds. (Waltham, MA and London: Brandeis University Press, 2003, 216 pp., $34.95) CALIFORNIA'S ARAB AMERICANS By Janice Marschner (Sacramento: Coleman Ranch Press, 2003, 160 pp.,...

Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913.(Photographing Farmworkers in California)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... BEASTS OF THE FIELD: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 By Richard Steven Street (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004, 904 PP., $75 cloth, $29.95 paper) PHOTOGRAPHING FARMWORKERS IN CALIFORNIA By...

Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... BOUND FOR FREEDOM: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America By Douglas Flamming (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, 467 Pp., $29.95) This is perhaps the first comprehensive social history of African Americans in Los Angeles....

Annie Kennedy Bidwell: An Intimate History.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... ANNIE KENNEDY BIDWELL: An Intimate History By Lois H. McDonald (Chico: Stansbury Publishing, 2004, 430 pp., $4495, cloth) A telling 1868 photograph of Annie Bidwell in the outfit she would wear on her wedding voyage to California shows...

Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... ORANGE EMPIRE: California and the Fruits of Eden By Douglas Cazaux Sackman (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005, 386 pp., $45 cloth) Orange Empire goes well beyond a scholarly presentation of facts and figures about the rise...

The Man from the Rio Grande: A Biography of Harry Love, Leader of the California Rangers Who Tracked Down Joaquin Murrieta.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... THE MAN FROM THE RIO GRANDE: A Biogragraphy of Harry Love, Leader of the California Rangers Who Tracked Down Joaquin Murrieta By William B. Secrest (Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2005, 303 pp., $34.50 cloth) This first...

Individuals.(DONORS)
January 1, 2006... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following individual donors for their contributions received between February 1, 2005, and February 1, 2006: $10,000 AND ABOVE Mr. Ted Balestreri, Monterey Mr. Robert A....

Corporate, foundation & government support.(DONORS)
January 1, 2006... The California Historical Society is deeply grateful to the following organizations for their contributions received between February 1, 2005, and February 1, 2006: $10,000 AND ABOVE The Barkley Fund, Corona Del Mar Boston Private...

Under a spreading oak.(SPOTLIGHT)
January 1, 2006... Source of parts of five cities and many colorful stories in the Los Angeles area (see "Sixty Stories in Search of a City," by Grey Hise, pages 8-26), Rancho Santa Anita covered more than 13,000 acres. At the time this photograph was taken, it...