Women Trailblazers of California
Women Trailblazers of California

Author: Gloria G Harris

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-11-16

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1614236216

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In a series of biographical profiles, this volume celebrates the lives and achievements of women who made history in the Golden State. Throughout California’s history, remarkable women have been at the core of change and innovation. In this fascinating volume, Gloria Harris and Hannah Cohen relate the stories of forty women whose struggles and achievements have paved the way for generations. Coming from all walks of life and entering a variety of fields—from activism and conservation to science, medicine, entertainment, and more—these women overcame prejudice, skepticism and injustice to prove that women can do anything. Visionary architect Julia Morgan designed Hearst Castle; Dolores Huerta co-founded United Farm Workers; Donaldina Cameron, the angry angel of Chinatown, rescued brothel workers; and silent film actress Mary Pickford helped form United Artists Pictures. From fearless pioneers to determined reformers, Harris and Cohen chronicle the triumphs and disappointments of diverse women who dared to take risks and break down barriers.

Daughters of History
Daughters of History

Author: Jane V. R. Bernasconi

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Daughters of California Pioneers, Daughters of History is the unsung history of California's earliest settlers and their families. This book offers a glimpse into the exciting first chapters of California history. Beginning with the period of Mexican rule in the early 1800s, continuing through the migration from the East Coast in the early 1840s, and forging on into the gold rush days, it contains perspectives rarely encountered in conventional historical accounts. The narratives are drawn from oral histories and family and local history books.

A Natural History of California
A Natural History of California

Author: Allan A. Schoenherr

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1992-12-16

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 9780520909915

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In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan Schoenherr describes a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural History of California will familiarize the reader with the climate, rocks, soil, plants and animals in each distinctive region of the state.

California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542-1848
California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542-1848

Author: Bancroft

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0806348933

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This compilation of genealogical and biographical sketches is extracted from the first five volumes of Bancroft's seven-volume History of California. Consists of a complete register of pioneers, alphabetically arranged, listing all known information of importance about them.

A Different Shade of Orange
A Different Shade of Orange

Author: Robert A. Johnson

Publisher: California State University San Bernardino

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Twenty-six edition oral histories of Orange County African-American pioneers from Willis Duffy to the family of Robert Clemons.

Californio Connections
Californio Connections

Author: James R. Zetterquist

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578860343

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Californio Connections portrays life in the San Francisco/Monterey Bay Areas as it transitioned from an Ohlone population to Spanish, Mexican and American governance. as told through the lives of six individuals all distantly related to the author.

The Silver Dons
The Silver Dons

Author: Richard F. Pourade

Publisher:

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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Describes how the Spanish Dons wrested the Californian lands from the missionaries and lost them to the American pioneers with the start of the gold rush.