Amador
Amador

Author: Fernando Savater

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 1466882352

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In Amador, Fernando Savater writes in the form of a letter to his teenage son about ethics, morals and freedom in today's society.

Amador County
Amador County

Author: John Poultney

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738547015

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Located in the heart of California's gold country, rural Amador County has retained much of its gold rush?era atmosphere, even as modern times have influenced the populace and the landscape. In the early days, life was quite rugged here, and lumberjacks, hard-rock miners, and railroad men were a common sight. Today much of the community's stunning natural setting remains nearly as sylvan and pristine as it was when the county was incorporated in 1854. Proud of an extensive and colorful history that includes mining, lumber, mountaineering, Native Americans, wine making, agriculture, and railroads, Amador County residents truly enjoy this slowly evolving place they call home.

Californio Voices
Californio Voices

Author: José Mariá Amador

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1574411918

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In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early Californios, one of them being eighty-three-year-old Don Jose Maria Amador, a former Forty-Niner during the California Gold Rush and soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco. Amador tells of reconnoitering expeditions into the interior of California, where he encountered local indigenous populations. He speaks of political events of Mexican California and the widespread confiscation of the Californios' goods, livestock, and properties when the United States took control. A friend from Mission Santa Cruz, Lorenzo Asisara, also describes the harsh life and mistreatment the Indians faced from the priests. Both the Amador and Asisara narratives were used as sources in Bancroft's writing but never published themselves. Gregorio Mora-Torres has now rescued them from obscurity and presents their voices in English translation (with annotations) and in the original Spanish on facing pages. This bilingual edition will be of great interest to historians of the West, California, and Mexican American studies.

Gracianna
Gracianna

Author: Trini Amador

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781608325702

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The gripping story of Gracianna a French-Basque girl forced to make impossible decisions after being recruited into the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris "

Amador Central Railroad
Amador Central Railroad

Author: Deborah Coleen Cook

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738575506

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Resting in the community park in Ione, California, is old No. 7, affectionately known as "Iron Ivan," the last steam engine that served on the Amador Central Railroad. At the southern edge of town, one can glimpse the rails it once rode. Built in 1904, the Amador Central Railroad--a 12-mile, standard-gauge short line that snakes its way through the Sierra Nevada foothills from Ione to Martell--served both passengers and freighters for a century until 2004. It was said to be the slowest line in California, with over 75 curves and a grade of four percent in some places. In 2010, Sierra Pacific Industries sold the railroad to a nonprofit consortium to preserve the historic line.