Download or read book Ragwings Over The Sacramento River written by Allen Herr and published by Stansbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical accounts of the first successful flight in California’s capital city and other notable Northern California flights that followed over three decades, the courageous aviators, and development of long forgotten airports from which they flew. Among them is the story of aviatrix Blanche Stuart Scott’s 1912 flights and Sac Muni female pilots twenty years later. Included is the first accurate history of early ag-flying in the north state revolutionizing the farmers. This is part of a three-book series on Northern California's aviation history 1909-1939.
Download or read book Aviation in Northern California 1910 1939 written by Allen Herr and published by Stansbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939: Vol. 1, San Francisco Bay Area is the only book to give a detailed account of early flying in the Bay Area. Historian Allen Herr recalls the aviation pioneers who flew weekly exhibitions promoting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition fifteen months prior to its San Francisco opening. These pioneers formed flying schools, built airports, manufactured aircraft, and competed against each other. Herr captures the energy behind the Bay Area aviation movement, tells who was involved, and describes the effects of their extraordinary determination and achievements. This edition is one of three in Herr's series of Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939.
Download or read book Hops and Dreams written by Rob Burton and published by Stansbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 15, 1980, two young homebrewers opened a microbrewery in northern California, naming it after the nearby mountain range. Thirty years later, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is widely recognized as a leader of the craft brewing revolution that has changed American beer's reputation around the world. Rob Burton's original research as a customer and his professional interactions with the young founders and personnel, describes the stories behind the company's astonishing rise to success. This is the first book written about the Chico brewery.
Download or read book U S Civil Aircraft written by Joseph P. Juptner and published by Aero Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive history of U.S. civil air-craft, a classification in 1927 and continued through 1948, when the certification system was changed. An invaluable resource, this series is a tribute to the more than 800 aircrafts it describes and illustrates, as well as to the people who made them famous. Nineteen years of intensive research is represented in the series--every aircraft is explored down to the last river. Juptner provides specifications, performance figures, production information, and prices in meticulous detail. Outstanding photography, aircraft and company histories, and the names of designers round out the books in this one-of-a-kind collector's series.
Download or read book The Face of Poetry written by LaVerne Harrell Clark and published by Chico, Calif. : Heldelberg Graphics. This book was released on 1979 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To show the best and characteristic [photographs] she has taken over the past ten years - non formal, off hand, when they were not posing. She includes only one poem with each picture.
Download or read book Around the World in 52 Words written by Robert Stacey Burton and published by . This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancients gods and goddesses to love and despair, from personal memories to public histories, this book contains 365 daily entries, each 52 words long, tackling a wide range of topical themes and issues. It was written over the course of one year as the world celebrated the turn of the millennium.
Download or read book Focus 101 written by LaVerne Harrell Clark and published by Chico, Ca. : Heidelberg Graphics. This book was released on 1979 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder in Mendocino written by Shari Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shari Edward's suspense novel begins in Julie Morgan's small Northern California hometown, Crowville. Julie returns to dispose her mother's possessions after her sudden death. Sitting alone in a dimly lit garage going through the belongings, Julie finds an old newspaper clipping that recalls a terrifying childhood memory. Startled by a slamming door she rushes to her car. She sees handwriting on the clipping: "Killer never found." Julie immediately calls her sister. Working together to solve the mystery their search becomes increasingly dangerous. Crowville police chief Sam Davis and Denver detective Will Jamison offer the sisters protection as the case becomes threatening to them all.
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Download or read book The Road to Cherokee written by Mary Ray King and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granny Aimes came to California by wagon with her family, the Normas and the Morrises, to begin a new adventure in a state flush with gold and promise. With pioneer grit, the Normans followed the placer gold while the Morrises found gold in the rich soil of Butte County. The threads of their story - with twists of hope, fear, betrayal, and redemption - are woven into the David and Goliath struggle between two of California's largest industries at that time - agriculture and gold hydraulicking. Mary Ray King's engaging storytelling brings to life unforgettable characters doing what people do today - live. It tells of two families surviving the challenges of life against the backdrop of two industries fighting to survive. Written in 1947, The Road to Cherokee isn't just a novel - it's a historical epic that will sweep you into another time. ANCHR added photographs and annotated history to provide persepective for that modern reader about events that, while they happened generations ago, still resonate today.
