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Author : Richard C. Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Kern County (Calif.)
ISBN : LCCN:74018077
Author : Curtis Darling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Kern County (Calif.)
ISBN : 0943500184
Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1FSL
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004621152
Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986-10
Category : Geography
ISBN : PURD:32754081675682
Author : Edwin Gary Stickel,Lois W. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : California
ISBN : UCR:31210005536352
Author : Chris Brewer,Kern County Museum
Publisher : HPN Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781893619142
Author : Erwin Gustav Gudde,William Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047059129
From Abadi Creek to Zzyzyx Spring, thousands of discoveries await the reader of CALIFORNIA PLACE NAMES. This revised and expanded fourth edition features a wealth of description and history. Like its predecessors, this volume concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for cities, settlements, mountains, and streams, with updates to include new additions to the map.
Author : Erwin G. Gudde
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520261440
Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.
Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0806305444
Author : Ralph Arnold,Harry R. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Petroleum
ISBN : NYPL:33433090920913
Author : John Boessenecker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806183169
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.
Author : Philip Varney
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0806126086
The ghost towns of Southern California-some dramatic and nearly intact, others devastated-are well worth visiting. Most are remnants of once-colorful mining towns, though there are also railroad towns, a World War II relocation center, a promoter's swindle, and a failed socialist colony. Some excellent attractions remain. One of the best-preserved stamp mills in the West is in Skidoo. Smelters, homes, stores, and the remarkable wooden American Hotel can be found in Cerro Gordo, which the author calls "California's best true ghost town." Seasoned back-roads traveler Philip Varney, who has visited nearly a hundred ghost towns in the area, provides a down-to-earth and helpful guide to more than sixty of the best in Southern California and nearby Inyo and Kern counties. He defines a ghost town as a town with a population markedly decreased from its peak, one whose initial reason for settlement no longer keeps people there. It can be completely deserted, have a resident or two, or retain genuine signs of vitality, but Varney has eliminated those towns he considers either too populated or too empty of significant remains. The sites are grouped in four chapters in Inyo County, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and Kern River, and the regions surrounding Los Angeles and San Diego. Each chapter provides a map of the region, a ranking of sites as "major," "secondary," and "minor," information on road conditions, trip suggestions, and tips on the use of particular topographic maps for readers interested in more detailed exploration. Each entry includes directions to a town, a brief history of that town, and notes on its special points of interest. Current photographs provide a valuable record of the sometimes fragile sites. Southern California's Best Ghost Towns will be welcomed both by those who enjoy traveling off the beaten path and by those who enjoy the history of the American West.
Author : René Coulet du Gard,Dominique Coulet Western,Canadian Institute of Onomastic Sciences
Publisher : [s.l.] : Edition des Deux Mondes
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : WISC:89058322132
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Geology
ISBN : UOM:39015035495137
