The Story of California
Author: May McNeer
Publisher:
Published: 2012-11
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781258519094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History Of California, Highlighting The Cities Of San Francisco And Los Angeles.
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Our California
Author: Pam Mu¤oz Ryan
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 1607340488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakes the reader on an imaginary trip through California while offering information about the history and geography of the major cities and towns.
California's Pioneering Punjabis: An American Story
Author: Lea Terhune
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2023-01-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1467148873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"...evocative vignettes and inspiring stories from many of California's South Asian American citizens..." Paul Michael Taylor, Director, Asian Cultural History Program, Smithsonian Institution. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, adventurous travelers left the Punjab in India to seek their fortune in California and beyond. Laboring in farms, fields and orchards for low wages while enduring racial discrimination, they strove to put down roots in their new home. Bhagat Singh Thind, an immigrant who served in the United States Army, had his citizenship granted and revoked twice before a 1936 law expanded naturalization to all World War I veterans, regardless of race. Dalip Singh Saund obtained a master's degree and doctorate in mathematics from UC Berkeley only to return to farming when no one would hire him. In 1956, Saund went on to become the first Asian elected to the U.S. Congress. Ethnic South Asians are now found in every trade and profession in the United States, including the Office of the Vice President. Descendants of the first Punjabi immigrants from Yuba City to the Imperial Valley still farm, adding to the rich tapestry of the Central Valley. Author Lea Terhune recounts the risks, setbacks and persistence of the people who achieved their American dreams.
Early California and Her Flags
Author: Harry Knill
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780883881293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief history of California's different flags.
Chez TJ: The story of one of California's first Michelin Star restaurants
Author: Melissa St. Aude
Publisher: Melissa St. Aude Media
Published:
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the day it opened, Chez TJ was destined for greatness. With business partners George Aviet and Chef Thomas McCombie at the helm, Chez TJ was a sensation from the moment its doors opened in Mountain View, California. The restaurant received rave reviews from food buffs and within its first few years, earned a glowing review in a Gourmet Magazine article. In 2005, Chez TJ became one of the first California restaurants to earn a Michelin Star. Over four decades of serving gourmet French fare to customers, the restaurant had its ups and downs and amassed lots of unique stories. This is the story of Chez TJ and what made the restaurant a success. Also included are a few recipes from the restaurant’s early days
1845-1870 An Untold Story of Northern California
Author: Daniel Smith
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Published: 2019-11-01
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1594338248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1845-1870 An Untold Story of Northern California is a revisionist historical non-fiction narrative of the American settling of Northern California, and their difficult experiences with local native conflicts that arose. These hostility's have been eyeballed and extensively written about through the eyes of the indigenous locals. Modern knowledge on the true experiences of the pioneers settling of this specific area of 19th century Northern California, today, is seemingly swept under the rug. This literature serves as a window for the reader to understand the mindsets and culture of the American settlers as they homesteaded the Northern California region from 1845 to 1870. This literature includes massive amounts of information regarding unheard-of regional hostilities and depredations against the American settlers during this time-frame. 1845-1870 An Untold Story of Northern California also exposes and ties-in certain cultural. religious, and legal functions that solidified the history of what truly happened during Northern California's unstable history! A must-have for students, teachers, and history enthusiasts!
Foucault in California: [a True Story--Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]
Author: Simeon Wade
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781597145374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people'". This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade-ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade's partner Michael Stoneman, Foucault experimented with psychotropic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. Foucault in California is Wade's firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade's bungalow, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault "Country Joe"); and, of course, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal, this book chronicles a young man's burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.
The California Story
Author: California. Governor's Advisory Committee on Children and Youth
Publisher:
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gottlieb Native Garden
Author: Susan Gottlieb
Publisher:
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780692783399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Richmond's California Story
Author: Nila Repard
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-10-24
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 132964350X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spring of 1860 James Richmond left his home in Phelps, NY to start an adventure to the gold fields of California. In these pages you will find his own entries from his diary and the stories he told his friends and family about his travels, the sights he saw, and the people he met.
