20 Tales Of California
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20 Tales Of California
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Author : Hector Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
20 Tales Of California written by Hector Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with California categories.
Masterfully written stories filled with drama, adventure, intrigue & humor. Tales of real life - a mysterious painting, a devastating fire, bandits, sacred mountains, romance & more. Real life & folklore set in over 100 California locations.
20 Tales Of California
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Author : Hector Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
20 Tales Of California written by Hector Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with California categories.
Family historians/genealogists who appreciate fascinating information about prior generationswill appreciate an extensive index that includes 100+ family names of the people depicted in these stories in 100+ California locations. With drama, adventure, intrigue, and humor, these 20 tales are enjoyable and educational for teenagers and adults alike. Educators and group leaders will find discussion questions for each tale, ideas for classroom research and/or field trips to story sites where students¿ imagination can recreate stories¿ exciting action. The Chart of Locations by Story helps readers identify stories¿ sites.Drawn from California folklore and local history, most of these intriguing stories are about real people and real life: a mysterious painting, devastating fire, murder, bandits, sacred mountains, romance. Essentially true and based on historical facts, some are folklore, too, as folk remembered the truth or fashioned it into local legend. Anyway, the tales are fascinating, enjoyable, and fun to research. For example, the publishers have traveled to Sawyers Bar, Paradise Flat, and Scott Valley to experience the setting of Father Florian¿s Secret and to view the mysterious painting which is now in the little Catholic church in Scott Valley. They also found the remains of the vanished town of Luffenholtz near the town of Trinidad (Last Train from Luffenholtz). Just south of Willits at the Ridgewood Ranch, they stood at a site of a Black Bart stagecoach robbery (Black Bart, Shotgun Poet). At Fort Ross on the Sonoma County Coast they viewed the area where The Russian and The Lady took place.
Tales Of California Yesterdays 1916
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Author : Rose Lucile Ellerbe
language : en
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Tales Of California Yesterdays 1916 written by Rose Lucile Ellerbe and has been published by Kessinger Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Law categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Splendid Idle Forties Stories Of Old California
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Author : Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-05
The Splendid Idle Forties Stories Of Old California written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with Fiction categories.
"The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California" by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton is a collection of short stories about early California. The volume contains: The Pearls Of Loreto, The Ears Of Twenty Americans, The Wash-tub Mail, The Conquest Of Doña Jacoba, A Ramble With Eulogia, The Isle Of Skulls, The Head Of A Priest, La Pérdida, Lukari's Story, Natalie Ivanhoff: A Memory Of Fort Ross, The Vengeance Of Padre Arroyo, The Bells Of San Gabriel, and When The Devil Was Well.
Jack London
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Author : Jack London
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2010
Jack London written by Jack London and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
From one of America's great writers, this delightful collection - the first of its kind - contains twenty-three adventurous tales set in the San Francisco Bay Area. If San Francisco has captured the world's imagination through the hardboiled stories of Dashiell Hammett, the prose and poetry of Jack Kerouac and his fellow Beats, through Orson Welles' Lady From Shanghai and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, it is as a romantic city of vast suspension bridges and foggy back alleys, not as the wild west of Jack London's day. Pre-quake San Francisco was a tough town, and Jack London - hobo, sailor, oyster pirate, hard drinker - was pretty tough, too. Although famous for his stories of the Klondike and the Pacific, London wrote extensively about his home base. This collection contains such classic stories as 'The Apostate' and 'South of the Slot' as well as extracts from John Barleycorn and The Sea-Wolf. The overlooked 1905 story cycle Tales of the Fish Patrol is included in its entirety. London's vivid eyewitness report of the Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire - which destroyed forever the old city - stands as a fitting epilogue. Discover a vanished San Francisco in these wonderful stories of Jack London. Selected as one of the 16 BOOKS TO READ IF YOU LOVE SAN FRANCISCO: "Most of us know San Francisco as a soft foggy charmfest of a city. But it wasn't always so tame. Jack London's San Francisco Stories chronicles the tougher annals of SF's pre-earthquake days, and includes Jack London's firsthand account of the city burning in the wake of the 1906 quake. Either a must-read or must-avoid for anyone waiting for the next shaker. In this collection, you can find the San Francisco that is no longer, but still haunts the back allies. Recommended for: True lovers of San Francisco [and] neighborhood dive bar drinkers." -ANISSE GROSS, BuzzFeed.com "A meaty, compactly packaged book. If you don't have these stories, a great intro to a city that was lost in the 1906 quake and fire, by the most famous author born in town." -DON HERRON, the San Francisco Dashiell Hammett Tour "This collection by scholar and writer Matthew Asprey finally brings together London's best writing about the coastal communities of Northern California that he loved so well." -RODGER JACOBS, Journalist, Author, Jack London Scholar
Hellacious California
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Author : Gary Noy
language : en
Publisher: Heyday Books
Release Date : 2020
Hellacious California written by Gary Noy and has been published by Heyday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
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. Published in collaboration with Sierra College Press.
Fascinating True Tales From Old California
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Author : Colleen Adair Fliedner
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-04-01
Fascinating True Tales From Old California written by Colleen Adair Fliedner and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-01 with History categories.
For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy. In Fascinating True Tales from Old California, author Colleen Adair Fliedner mines the history of theGolden State to collect more than fifty tales of famous Californians and their escapades from 1542 through 1940. For many, like James Lick, Leland Stanford, and John Downey, California was a place to strike it rich. Others sought freedom and a new beginning, including Chinese immigrants and African Americans, like philanthropist and freed slave, Biddy Mason. And still some characters just wanted to live their lives outside of society’s rules, like swindler James Reavis or the cross-dressing stagecoach driver, Charley Parkhurst. Readers will be entertained and enlightened as they take a trip through California’s colorful past.
When A Parent Goes To Jail
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Author : Rebecca M. Yaffe
language : en
Publisher: Rayve Productions
Release Date : 2000
When A Parent Goes To Jail written by Rebecca M. Yaffe and has been published by Rayve Productions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Child psychology categories.
A comprehensive guide for counseling children of incarcerated parents.
American Book Publishing Record
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
American Book Publishing Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with American literature categories.
Treasure And Trouble Therewith A Tale Of California
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Author : Geraldine Bonner
language : en
Publisher: Whitlock Publishing
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Treasure And Trouble Therewith A Tale Of California written by Geraldine Bonner and has been published by Whitlock Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Fiction categories.
Set to climax in the rubble of the 1905 San Francisco earthquake, Treasure and Trouble Therewith (1917) provides a definitive portrait of early 20th-century California and those who lived there. Using the booming West, Bonner dissects American greed consuming the hopeful pilgrims trying to make a place for themselves in the Golden State.