Picturesque San Diego
Picturesque San Diego

Author: Douglas Maxwell Gunn

Publisher:

Published: 1887

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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"72 Collotype illustrations by the American Photogravure Co. ...; H. Friend ... took the photographs. This Chicago firm produced ... [some] interesting books [and lends proof] that many printers throughout the United States were becoming involved in photomechanical printing."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 91.

Imperial
Imperial

Author: William T. Vollmann

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 1854

ISBN-13: 1101105151

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From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For generations of migrant workers, Imperial Country has held the promise of paradise and the reality of hell. It sprawls across a stirring accidental sea, across the deserts, date groves and labor camps of Southeastern California, right across the border into Mexico. In this eye-opening book, William T. Vollmann takes us deep into the heart of this haunted region, exploring polluted rivers and guarded factories and talking with everyone from Mexican migrant workers to border patrolmen. Teeming with patterns, facts, stories, people and hope, this is an epic study of an emblematic region.

A Stroll by My Western Bookshelves
A Stroll by My Western Bookshelves

Author: Gordon J. Van de Water

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2009-04-03

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1462818676

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Much experience and action, much thought and reminiscence, fill the pages of this volume. Here are books about explorers, frontiersmen, mountaineers, hunters, rangers, gold-finders, cowboys, and tenderfeet; novels and narratives by pioneer women; books by friends and also fighters of Native Americans. Often generously quoted, they pulse with the life of the old West. Albert R. Vogeler, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton You have the mantle of Henry Wagner, Carl Wheat, and Francis Farquhar on your shoulders. You are to be commended for bringing to life so many of the books that are key to our heritage. Gary F. Kurutz, Curator of Special Collections, California State Library

Report
Report

Author: State Library of Massachusetts

Publisher:

Published: 1885

Total Pages: 1242

ISBN-13:

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San Diego Yesterday
San Diego Yesterday

Author: Richard W. Crawford

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1625840446

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San Diego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn't always so. The city's transformation from a rough-hewn border town and frontier port to a vital military center was marked by growing pains and political clashes. Civic highs and criminal lows have defined San Diego's rise through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a preeminent Sun Belt city. Historian Richard W. Crawford recalls the significant events and one-of-a-kind characters like benefactor Frank "Booze" Beyer, baseball hero Albert Spalding and novelist Scott O'Dell. Join Crawford for a collection that recounts how San Diego yesterday laid the foundation for the city's bright future.