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Language: en
Pages: 272
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fra
Language: en
Pages: 513
Pages: 513
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-10 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t c
Language: en
Pages: 418
Pages: 418
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-21 - Publisher: Penguin
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Language: en
Pages: 219
Pages: 219
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-16 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
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
