Download or read book Black Gold in the Joaquin written by Frank F. Latta and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the oil is produced in the four most southerly counties of the San Joaquin Valley: Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern.
Download or read book Obscene in the Extreme written by Rick Wartzman and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California -- the Joads' newfound home -- the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind this fit of censorship. When W. B. "Bill" Camp, a giant cotton and potato grower, presided over its burning in downtown Bakersfield, he declared: "We are angry, not because we were attacked but because we were attacked by a book obscene in the extreme sense of the word." But Gretchen Knief, the Kern County librarian, bravely fought back. "If that book is banned today, what book will be banned tomorrow?" Obscene in the Extreme serves as a window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America -- a time when, as Steinbeck put it, there seemed to be "a revolution . . . going on."
Download or read book Bandido written by John Boessenecker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was he a Mexican American Robin Hood who suffered at the hands of a racist government? In this engrossing biography, John Boessenecker provides definitive answers. Bandido pulls back the curtain on a life story shrouded in myth — a myth created by Vasquez himself and abetted by writers who saw a tale ripe for embellishment. Boessenecker traces his subject's life from his childhood in the seaside adobe village of Monterey, to his years as a young outlaw engaged in horse rustling and robbery. Two terms in San Quentin failed to tame Vasquez, and he instigated four bloody prison breaks that left twenty convicts dead. After his final release from prison, he led bandit raids throughout Central and Southern California. His dalliances with women were legion, and the last one led to his capture in the Hollywood Hills and his death on the gallows at the age of thirty-nine. From dusty court records, forgotten memoirs, and moldering newspaper archives, Boessenecker draws a story of violence, banditry, and retribution on the early California frontier that is as accurate as it is colorful. Enhanced by numerous photographs — many published here for the first time — Bandido also addresses important issues of racism and social justice that remain relevant to this day.
Download or read book Black Gold at Titusville written by Lavinia G. Dobler and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by American Geological Institute and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pacific Historical Review written by Anna Marie Hager and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vanishing Landscapes written by William L. Preston and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now no longer well known or clearly recognizable as a region, the Tulare Lake Basin also once supported the densest non-agricultural population in North America. This population, of Yokut Indians, caused little change to the wild oasis environment. Today, however, the Basin bears the rigid imprint of the past two centuries of technological progress, culminating in the complete domination of the land and landscape by large-scale, corporate farming. Natural landmarks and boundaries are subordinate to cultural creations, and the identity of the region has waned with its assimilation into the uniform landscape of international agribusiness and with the gradual demise of the lake itself. After describing the geological processes that created the lake and basin, William Preston considers the values, attitudes to the environment, and aims and technologies that have characterized successive stages of human habitation, leaving their mark upon the land. Using innovative research techniques, and with insight derived from extensive personal knowledge of Tulare and its environs, he reconstructs the physical and cultural realities of each technological period: the Yokut subsistence culture and its disruption by Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers; early sheepherding, cattle ranching, and agricultural experimentation; the arrival of the railroad and of bonanza wheat farming in the late nineteenth century; the small farms stil lin existence during his own youth in Tulare; and, finally, the corporate, "world" farms of today. Integrating ecological and historical perspectives, Preston describes the concrete effects of cultural change upon the land and the land's reciprocal impact upon culture. Rather than just the story of this region, we are given the case history of its physical transformation by forces that have shaped all the Central Valley and California's large urban centers as well. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Download or read book Black Sand and Gold written by Edward Burchall Lung and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Gold written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by Carpenter Press. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rare book contains the story of Black Gold, a hilarious adventure story full of mystery, action-packed daring-do, untold treasure, and everything else you could ask for in such a story. Set in Northern California, this story is according to its author a frank melodrama, wherein the Hero is a hero, and the Villain is a villain, with not a subtle phrase or a disturbingly new thought, from start to finish. Sure to excite and entertain to the last, this book is a must-read for fans of Terhune s work and is well deserving of a place amongst any collection of literature. Albert Terhune was an American author, journalist, and passionate dog-breeder, most famous for his novels detailing the misadventures of dogs. Originally published in 1922, this early work is proudly republished now with a new introductory biography of the author."
Download or read book Stratigraphic Notes 1980 1982 written by J. Alan Bartow and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Joaqu n Murrieta and His Horse Gangs written by Frank F. Latta and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Joaquín Murieta, a legendary early California bandit. Through many interviews and travels, the author described Murieta's life and the locales in which he lived, and evaluated other accounts.
Download or read book Lawman written by John Boessenecker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Morse - gunfighter, manhunter, sleuth - was among the West's most famous lawmen. Elected sheriff of Alameda County, California, in 1864, he went on to become San Francisco's foremost private detective. His career spanned five decades. In this biography, John Boessenecker brings Morse's now-forgotten story to light, chronicling not only the lawman's remarkable adventures but also the turbulent times in which he lived. Armed only with raw courage and a Colt revolver, Morse squared off against a small army of desperadoes and beat them at their own game. He shot to death the notorious bandidos Narato Ponce and Juan Soto, outgunned the vicious Narciso Bojorques, and pursued the Tiburcio Vasquez gang for two months in one of the West's longest and most tenacious manhunts. Later, Morse captured Black Bart, America's greatest stagecoach robber. Fortunately, Harry Morse loved to tell of his feats. Drawing on Morse's diaries, memoirs, and correspondence, Boessenecker weaves the lawman's colorful accounts into his narrative. Rare photographs of outlaws and lawmen and of the sites of Morse's exploits further enliven the story. A significant contribution to both western history and the history of law enforcement, Lawman is also an in-depth treatment of Hispanic crime and its causes, immigration, racial prejudice, and police brutality - issues with which California, and the nation, still grapple today.
Download or read book Pacific Historical Review written by John Carl Parish and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1- include Proceedings of the 27th- annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
Download or read book Out West written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains monthly column of the Sequoya League.
Download or read book Blood and Gold written by Peter Murrieta and published by Sundown Press. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joaquin Murrieta. In the California gold camps of the 1850s, his very name struck terror into the hearts of miners. A bounty was put on his head and a new law-enforcement agency created just to capture or kill him. Joaquin was a lover, a leader, and a legend. While terrorizing white miners, he earned respect and devotion from the many Mexicans and Latin Americans in the gold fields. Although he tried to live an honest, hardworking life, the racism and intolerance he encountered altered his course. Forced into a life of crime, he struck back, forming a band of outlaws and then an army of patriots, with the intent of driving the Americans from the land that had so recently been Mexican territory. The historical epic novel Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta, by Jeffrey J. Mariotte and Peter Murrieta, is the definitive account of the life and legend of the "Robin Hood of the El Dorado"--the first fictional treatment of these events that benefits from memories handed down through generations of the Murrieta family.
Download or read book History in Plain Sight written by Margaret Guilford-Kardell and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who really was Black Bart? While he was a notorious nineteenth-century bandit known for robbing stagecoaches in gold rush California and Oregon, Black Barts true identity is still cloaked in mystery. After being jailed in 1883 as Charles Edward Boles, his picture appeared in all the papersyet hundreds of miners and old neighbors and friends would keep a secret: that the man in the papers was actually Alvy Boles. In History in Plain Sight: Joaquin Miller, Ambrose Bierce, and the Real Black Bart, author and historian Margaret Guilford-Kardell investigates the true identity of the man known as Black Bart, and she draws from Harry L. Wellss History of Siskiyou County, California (1881) and other historical documents, newspaper articles, and letters to explore the fascinating connection between the real Black Bart and poet-novelist Joaquin Millertwo of the most colorful but misunderstood figures from Californias gold rush days. Call me what you will, said a defiant Black Bart upon his arrest. Yet while he was called C. E. Boles or Charles Bolton by the authorities, a story of reputation, competing journalism, and family will show how the real Black Bart was none other than Alvy Boles.
