Hellacious California

Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597145046

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Hellacious California! by Gary Noy Pdf

“Teems with bittersweet compounds of 19th-century nefariousness, including . . . gambling, knife fights, the demon drink, con artistry, and prostitution.” —Los Angeles Review of Books In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors . . . finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]” than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California’s settler population mushroomed under Mexican and early American control, and this period of rapid transformation gave rise to a freewheeling culture best epitomized by its entertainments. Hellacious California tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State: gambling, gun duels, knife fights, gracious dining and gluttony, prostitution, fandangos, cigars, con artistry, and the demon drink. Historian Gary Noy unearths myriad primary sources, many of which have never before been published, to spin his true tall tales that are by turns humorous and horrifying. Whether detailing the exploits of an inebriated stallion, gambling parlors as a reinforcement and subversion of racial norms, armed skirmishes over eggs, or the ins and outs of the “Spirit Lover” scam, Noy expertly situates these stories in the context of a live-for-the-moment society characterized by audacity, bigotry, and risk. “Confidently carries the reader into the everyday lives of early Californians. The focus on Californians’ popular pastimes . . . with an eye on vice, decadence, and scandal, makes this book a rowdy tour.” —Dr. Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History, California State University, Sacramento; Former Director of CSUS Public History Program and the Capital Campus Oral History Program

Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496234179

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Nature's Mountain Mansion by Gary Noy Pdf

Nature's Mountain Mansion is the first anthology on Yosemite that focuses exclusively on the nineteenth century, the critical period in which Yosemite was "discovered" by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the country's most visited national parks. While there are volumes that provide readings about Yosemite in the nineteenth century, few provide critical--sometimes even disparaging--eyewitness reflections on the Yosemite experience, and none include excerpts from the government documents that defined the future of the park, such as the Yosemite Valley Grant Act of 1864. This anthology collects selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents that demonstrate the glory, the brutality, and the controversies surrounding this extraordinary and much-loved landscape. Some selections have not appeared in print since their original publication, while others have not been republished or excerpted for decades.

Author : Mathew Kinsella
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469101118

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The California Tales by Mathew Kinsella Pdf

Exhibit-A To dream the im-poss-ible dream to fight the un-beat-able foe to run where the brave (or wise) dare not go -From the Broadway production of The Man of La Mancha, music by Darien and Leigh, 1965 Gracing the awesome coastline of California like a set of stained glass and adobe rosary beads, the 18th-century chain of twenty-one old Spanish missions offer the modern tourist a window into the history of the golden state at once colorful, quaint, often romanticized and just possibly not as benign as the tourist literature would lead us to believe. Investigating just that possibility, three amateur researchers have uncovered an historic mission artifact that, proven authentic, could shaken the golden state to its foundations. Nor would the repercussions end there, cautioned research director Brother Kolbe. Not by a long shot. At the state capitol in Sacramento, the governors Mission Affairs Department, and entrenched bereaucrazy representing the vested interest of the church, civic groups, university and private concerns, is naturally interested in the discovery. With real estate totaling in the multi-billion dollar range, including treasure troves of priceless relics and artwork, the Mission Affairs Department is somewhat hesitant at relinquishing control of their flock of iconic golden geese. Exposing the scandalous mission hullabaloo to the light of day may very well, researcher Samara Del Rio smiled with a perfectly beatific malfeasance, induce a state of anarchy. This my quest, to follow that star no matter how hopeless, no matter how far Along with Sam, ostensibly the team sociologist; Franciscan Brother and linguist Kolbe McCeanna and computer technician Felicia Bonaventura have tracked the legendary article to the derelict ruins of a minor auxiliary mission, Mision Estancia San Micmac, abandoned deep in the cathedral redwoods of Californias rugged pacific coast foothills. Exhibit-A.: as Sacramento knows, the notorious artifact is a legendary mission document lost since the colonial era, and thought to be a Spanish translation of aboriginal petroglyphs, entitled Las Cuentitas Primaveritas de Isla Califia. Past as prologue, a highly divisive work of folkloric Outside Art, colonial-era historians date the slim manuscript to the year 1561. Spakespearean scholars, however, citing key internal references to The Bards colonial-era play The Tempest, insist that the text is no older that the year 1611. Anti-Stratfordians, of course, call the Spakespearean theory leaky as an unstaunched wench. Adding to the debate, pre-Columbian archivists at Villa Poggio Gherado in Canterbury, England claim tevidence supporting a composition date of 1348. Equally divided, modern pundits dismiss Las Cuentitas as nothing more than psychosocial gibberish and third-rate poetic doggerel anyway, or else venerate the document as instrumental to a radical psychosocial transformation. Either way, if birds of a feather flock together than the infamous manuscript resembles a traditional book to the extent a penguin resembles an ostrich. [Embedded in translation throughout the plot of The California Tales], Las Cuentitas represents an extraordinary multimedia-literary genre suppressed censored and banned since the 1960s as irredeemably subversive to the status quo. During its brief hayday in the sun, the tempestuous genre was known as Prosperos Salient Heliotropic Articulation Grids: pSHAGs. And, particularly threatening to the dominate paradigm, pSHAG poetry, (or poemetry), was known, rather tongue-in-cheek, as Teleothanantological Neuropeptidal Algorithms: T.N.A.s. Moreover, reputedly encrypted within a Prospero SHAG TNA are the sole surviving fragments of the theoretical Archetypical Tale: the mother of all manuscripts, the lore at the core. Archetypical Tale theorists insist that this so-called consummate communiqu is simultaneously primordial and pansophic, pro

Author : Wine Spectator
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-22
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1881659623

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Wine Spectator's by Wine Spectator Pdf

Required reading for anyone who buys and enjoys wine, this newly revised seventh edition of the most comprehensive ratings guide includes prices and tasting notes for more than 30,000 wines produced in the United States and abroad.

Author : Pat Hartman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781462812509

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Ghost Town: A Venice California Life by Pat Hartman Pdf

Visit VirtualVenice.info Pat Hartman´s first book, Call Someplace Paradise, was concerned with the public face of Venice, California - the boardwalk and boutique Venice visited by between one and two hundred thousand tourists each weekend. Ghost Town is about the other Venice. There is a book genre described by Russ Rymer as "inspecting America´s racial trauma through the lens of private experience, as it plays out in the daily difficulties of particular persons in one or another microcosmic place." Here the microcosm is Oakwood, a hotbed of diversity and danger called Ghost Town by its own citizens. The particular persons are a white single mother, age 30, and her 11-year-old, half-black daughter, along with a stellar cast of roommates, boyfriends, and neighbors. Ghost Town: A Venice California Life is a psychological adventure story that takes place in a challenging environment where many people would never consider trying to live. Much has been said and written about racial dynamics by people who, however well-informed and well-intentioned, may talk the talk but haven´t walked the walk. Whether by lack of inclination or of opportunity, many experts on race relations have never actually lived in a racially mixed neighborhood, let alone where their own group is a minority. In an environment that forces thought about race issues every single day, it´s a different world. How are attitudes about race formed? Why is it that even the most willing participants of the melting pot sometimes can´t take the heat? These and other questions are precisely as relevant now as they were in the period covered here, 1978-84. Unfortunately the subject of race will probably continue to be relevant into the next millennium and beyond, given that the human race as a whole is still around that long. Despite being burglarized, mugged, vandalized, menaced, caught in the black/chicano crossfire, and visited by men in suits who travel in pairs, the author found existence in Oakwood rewarding and positive an many ways. (Film director Barbet Schroeder, who lived in Oakwood during the same time period, told an interviewer it was "the best year of my life so far.") Like the diary of Samuel Pepys in London, like Alexander King´s memoirs of Greenwich Village, Ghost Town is a record of a fascinating and frightening urban environment through the eyes of an articulate and meticulous observer. Visit VirtualVenice.info

Author : Sally Richards
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781578605163

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Ghosthunting Southern California by Sally Richards Pdf

In Ghosthunting Southern California author Sally Richards takes readers on an eerie journey through the region on a series of paranormal investigations to historic locations marred by tragedy and unfortunate happenstance that have caused the dead to rise. This collection brings well-known paranormal researchers, history, and evidence collected with state-of-the-art equipment together for chilling non-fiction accounts of haunted Southern California. The stories leave readers with a sense of deep interest to find out what lies in the murky darkness beyond. Sally Richards, historian, paranormal investigator, and spiritualist medium brings history alive as she investigates locations with high-profile paranormal experts using state-of-the-art equipment, historians, and people who share a similar curiosity of the paranormal to bring you the latest on "haunted" locations throughout Southern California. From the Mexican border to Santa Barbara, readers find chilling accounts of paranormal activity. Whether readers are veterans of ghost hunting, paranormal neophytes, or armchair travelers, this book offers fresh information and a style that puts readers right into the paranormal action.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989-07
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : PSU:000030379510

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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : MINN:319510013263563

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Analog Science Fiction/science Fact by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rachel Sinclair
Publisher : Sunrise Books
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Southern California Legal Thrillers by Rachel Sinclair Pdf

Southern California legal thrillers - over 1,500 pages full of twists, turns, drama, crime and justice. For fans of Grisham, buy the series that one reader says "are among the best page-turners around." Presumed Guilty Introducing Avery Collins! Former inmate turned Harvard trained lawyer, Avery is a social justice warrior with a thirst for justice for the wrongfully accused. She represents Esme Gutierrez, a refugee accused of killing a wealthy young girl. As the city melts down as one side proclaims her guilty without evidence, Avery risks her life to defend Esme. An ending you guaranteed won't see coming! Justice Delayed Avery gets her revenge on each and every person responsible for her wrongful imprisonment. Along the way, she exposes a sick sex trafficking ring, ripped from the headlines just like Law and Order. Strap in and prepare for a bumpy and exciting ride! Insanity Defense Avery's brother Aidan gets his first murder case, and it's a doozy. He represents a beautiful, but mentally unstable, woman. She's accused of killing her husband and doesn't know if she did it or not. Aidan discovers a sinister plot beyond his wildest imagination. Wrongful Conviction Avery's partner Christian represents a young black boy convicted for the brutal rape of an A-List actress. The boy had nothing to do with it, but he's poor, black and dispensable, so he was convicted. The real culprit is an extremely powerful man who can intimidate anybody into covering up his sick crimes. Can Christian find a way to bring this man to justice? If he doesn't, an innocent boy will spend the rest of his life in prison. The Trial A case of pure corporate greed. Avery's back and representing the mother of a child with mesothelioma, a disease virtually unheard of in children. Avery finds out the child was deliberately sickened, and when she finds out why, she knows she must bring this company down. Of course, it's never that easy, and Avery faces blocks at every turn. Can she bring this corrupt company down? Rachel Sinclair's books are full of lightning fast twists, turns and spins. If you love books about social justice warriors bringing down powerful interests - greedy corporations, corrupt billionaires, perverted and evil powerful men, sick politicians and mad scientists - you'll LOVE these books! If you're a fan of Grisham, give these books a try!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106009129245

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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business
ISBN : UCSC:32106017415313

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California Business by Anonim Pdf

Author : California (State).
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Law
ISBN : LALL:CA-B018121-RB

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California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs by California (State). Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122903342

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Going Places by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : California
ISBN : UCSC:32106007801183

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California by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Fishman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439124932

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The Big Thirst by Charles Fishman Pdf

Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirstis a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives. The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most of the planet’s water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made clean enough again to drink—indeed, water can be made so clean that it’s toxic. Water is the most vital substance in our lives but also more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life in this surprising and mind-changing narrative, water runs our world in a host of awe-inspiring ways, yet we take it completely for granted. But the era of easy water is over. Bringing readers on a lively and fascinating journey—from the wet moons of Saturn to the water-obsessed hotels of Las Vegas, where dolphins swim in the desert, and from a rice farm in the parched Australian outback to a high-tech IBM plant that makes an exotic breed of pure water found nowhere in nature—Fishman vividly shows that we’ve already left behind a century-long golden age when water was thoughtlessly abundant, free, and safe and entered a new era of high-stakes water. In 2008, Atlanta came within ninety days of running entirely out of clean water. California is in a desperate battle to hold off a water catastrophe. And in the last five years Australia nearly ran out of water—and had to scramble to reinvent the country’s entire water system. But as dramatic as the challenges are, the deeper truth Fishman reveals is that there is no good reason for us to be overtaken by a global water crisis. We have more than enough water. We just don’t think about it, or use it, smartly. The Big Thirst brilliantly explores our strange and complex relationship to water. We delight in watching waves roll in from the ocean; we take great comfort from sliding into a hot bath; and we will pay a thousand times the price of tap water to drink our preferred brand of the bottled version. We love water—but at the moment, we don’t appreciate it or respect it. Just as we’ve begun to reimagine our relationship to food, a change that is driving the growth of the organic and local food movements, we must also rethink how we approach and use water. The good news is that we can. As Fishman shows, a host of advances are under way, from the simplicity of harvesting rainwater to the brilliant innovations devised by companies such as IBM, GE, and Royal Caribbean that are making impressive breakthroughs in water productivity. Knowing what to do is not the problem. Ultimately, the hardest part is changing our water consciousness. As Charles Fishman writes, “Many civilizations have been crippled or destroyed by an inability to understand water or manage it. We have a huge advantage over the generations of people who have come before us, because we can understand water and we can use it smartly.” The Big Thirst will forever change the way we think about water, about our essential relationship to it, and about the creativity we can bring to ensuring that we’ll always have plenty of it.