History/Lore/Native Americans
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Earth Pigments and Paint of The California Indians: Meaning and Technology
Author: Paul D. Campbell
This subject is brought together and treated in depth for the first time. Drawing on the best scholarship of others and extensive personal research, the author uncovers the technology and …
- Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Natural History/Ecology.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 228
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780979378003
- Year Published: 2007
- Publisher: Paul D. Campbell
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Earthquake Exodus, 1906: Berkeley Responds to the San Francisco Refugees
Author: Richard Schwartz
Earthquake Exodus, 1906 tells the story of the ten-week relief effort in the East Bay after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Within hours of the earthquake, the people …
- Categories: California: Central and Northern, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Soft Cover
- Pages: 148
- Dimensions: 10 x 9
- ISBN: 9780967820415
- Year Published: 2005
- Language: English
- Publisher: RSB Books
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Etnobotánica Kumiai **Temporarily Out of Stock**: El conocimiento sobre las plantas nativas de un pueblo indígena de Baja California
Author: Michael Wilken-Robertson
Etnobotánica kumiai explora la interdependencia notable entre los pueblos nativos y las plantas endémicas de las Californias, a través de la descripción a profundidad de 47 plantas y sus usos; …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Mexico/Baja California, Natural History/Ecology, Spanish/Bilingual.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 312
- Dimensions: 7x9
- ISBN: 9781941384572
- Year Published: 2020
- Language: Spanish
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California: Revised and Updated
Author: Richard W. Halsey
This is the best book available that describes in detail California’s most extensive plant community (the chaparral) as well as how to live safely in one of the most fire …
- Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Natural History/Ecology.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 216
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653697
- Year Published: 2004
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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First People: A Revised Chronology for San Diego
Author: Dennis R. Gallegos
First People is a synthesis of the work of archaeologists over the past 100 years to explain the chronology of pre-contact people of San Diego County over the past 12,000 …
- Categories: California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 136
- Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 11
- ISBN: 9780982267172
- Year Published: 2017
- Language: English
- Publisher: Dennis R. Gallegos
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Fossil Treasures of the Anza-Borrego Desert: The Last Seven Million Years *Free copy of Selected Artworks included with all orders*
Editors: George T. JeffersonLowell Lindsay
Southern California’s Anza-Borrego Desert State Park® is a vast, mostly arid desert, but the ancient landscapes of Anza-Borrego were richly populated riparian forests and savanna. Before that, it held a …
- Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 416
- Dimensions: 9 x 12
- ISBN: 9780932653505
- Year Published: 2006
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Gateway To Alta California: The Expedition to San Diego, 1769
Author: Harry W. Crosby
The story of the Spanish expedition to found San Diego is told through diary excerpts and the author’s comments, taking the reader day-by-day on the journey through the unexplored, desolate …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 244
- Dimensions: 9 x 11
- ISBN: 9780932653574
- Year Published: 2002
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Geoglyphs of the Desert Southwest: Earthen Art as Viewed from Above
Authors: Anne MorganHarry Casey
Across the deserts of the American southwest are one of the largest concentrations of geoglyphs outside of Peru’s Nazca Lines. These ancient Native American works of earthen art can be …
- Categories: California: General, Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: softcover
- Pages: 120
- Dimensions: 9 x 10
- ISBN: 9781941384503
- Year Published: 2019
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Geology and History of Southeastern San Diego County California
This guidebook includes the San Diego Association Geologists’ 2005 and 2006 field trips. We begin our exploration in the Peninsular Ranges Batholith in southern San Diego County along historic Old …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780916251789
- Year Published: 2006
- Publisher: San Diego Association Of Geologists
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Geology and Lore of the Northern Anza-Borrego Desert Region: The Lows to Highs of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Editors: Charles E. HouserMonte L. Murbach
Covers geology of the northern Anza-Borrego desert region including the 2010 joint field trip for SCGS and SDAG. Useful for anyone interested in geology, mines, history, groundwater, geologic structure, or …
- Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 198
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780916251161
- Year Published: 2010
- Publisher: San Diego Association Of Geologists
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Geology and Natural History of Camp Pendleton
Editor: Phillip S. Rosenburg
This guidebook includes the San Diego Association of Geologists’ 1994 field trip through Camp Pendleton. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton covers an area of approximately 200 square miles, extending from …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 106
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780916251147
- Year Published: 2010
- Publisher: San Diego Association Of Geologists
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Geology of Anza-Borrego: Edge of Creation
Authors: Lowell LindsayPaul Remeika
A fascinating introduction to one of the most active seismic regions in North America where new earth crust is created as the Baja peninsula (and Borrego) splits from the mainland. …
- Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 218
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653178
- Year Published: 1993
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Geology of Elsinore Fault Zone, San Diego Region
Editor: Monte L. Murbach
This book covers the geology of the southern Elsinore fault zone, in eastern San Diego and western Imperial Counties. Includes a self-guiding field trip which parallels the fault zone through …
- Categories: California: Los Angeles/Orange County, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 209
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780916251659
- Year Published: 2003
- Publisher: San Diego Association Of Geologists
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Geotechnical Engineering Case Histories in San Diego County
Editor: John H. Hoobs
While liquefaction, subsidence, and soil problems are major challenges for structural development, there are solutions and remedies as exemplified herein.
- Categories: Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 106
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: SDAG90
- Year Published: 1991
- Publisher: San Diego Association Of Geologists
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Gold and Silver In The Mojave: Images of a Last Frontier
Author: Nicholas Clapp
In the 1890s, historian Frederick Jackson Turner lamented that the frontier was gone and with it the Old West, but overlooked was some 50,000 square miles of a frontier line …
- Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 200
- Dimensions: 9 x 10
- ISBN: 9780932653062
- Year Published: 2012
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Good Camp: Gold Mines of Julian and the Cuyamacas
Author: Leland Fetzer
An informal and engaging history of San Diego’s own Gold Rush. A Good Camp takes readers through the history of this unique mining region, whose quartz veins once yielded millions …
- Categories: California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 104
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653482
- Year Published: 2002
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 14.95 Add to cart