History/Lore/Native Americans
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California’s El Camino Real and Its Historic Bells: Second Edition
California’s El Camino Real and Its Historic Bells is the first book to trace the history, development and preservation of this historic West Coast transportation corridor. The “King’s Highway” would …
- Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Outdoor/Travel/Trail Maps.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 226
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9781532318948
- Year Published: 2016
- Language: English
- Publisher: M & E Books
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Cave Paintings of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People
A full-color account of the great murals of a forgotten people. Depicts the author’s discovery and documentation of a world-class archaeological region in remote central Baja.
- Categories: History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 256
- Dimensions: 10 x 10
- ISBN: 9780932653239
- Year Published: 1997
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 39.95 Add to cart -
Chasing Centuries: The Search for Ancient Agave Cultivars Across the Desert Southwest
Chasing Centuries is a one-of-a-kind travel-history book that takes the reader along on an exciting and little known adventure at the crossroads of archaeology and botany. Travel with author Ron …
- Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Natural History/Ecology, United States: Western.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 7 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384480
- Year Published: 2018
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 26.95 Add to cart -
Coloring California Missions
California’s 21 missions, from San Diego to Sonoma, were constructed between 1769 and 1823 and were spaced a day’s ride from each other, measured as 50 kilometers or 31 miles. …
- Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: softcover
- Pages: 96
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9781941384381
- Year Published: 2018
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 9.95 Add to cart -
Coloring Plants Used by Desert Indians
Native plants provided food, medicine, tools, construction material, articles for clothing or regalia, and materials used for decorative items or for ceremonial purposes. Specialists within each band knew exactly when …
- Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Natural History/Ecology.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 96
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9781941384374
- Year Published: 2018
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Consignments To El Dorado: A Record of the Voyage of the Sutton by Thomas Whaley
A record of the voyage of the Sutton by Thomas Whaley. Compiled and edited from the original manuscript, with journal and letters of 1848-49, includes notes and original illustrations, by …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 274
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780682474443
- Year Published: 1972
- Publisher: Save Our Heritage Organization
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Courage To Heal
Kaiser Permanente began at the height of the Great Depression with a 12 bed hospital in the Mojave Desert. When Sidney R. Garfield, MD, saw thousands of men building the …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 248
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780932653857
- Year Published: 2007
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 14.95 Add to cart -
Dreamers of The Colorado Part 1: Their Land and Religion
Here is a fascinating collection of true accounts dealing with the history, culture, art and religion of the Mojave Indians. While reading about them, you will experience the actual life …
- Categories: History/Lore/Native Americans, United States: Central and Eastern.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 148
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780916251277
- Year Published: 2013
- Publisher: Francis L O'Neil And Paul W. Wittmer
$ 25.95 Add to cart -
Dreamers of the Colorado Part 2: Their Culture and Arts
Here is a fascinating collection of true accounts dealing with the history, culture, art and religion of the Mojave Indians. While reading about them, you will experience the actual life …
- Categories: History/Lore/Native Americans, United States: Central and Eastern.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 141
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780916251284
- Year Published: 2013
- Publisher: Francis L O'Neil And Paul W. Wittmer
$ 25.95 Add to cart -
Earth Pigments and Paint of The California Indians: Meaning and Technology
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
$ 19.95 Add to cart -
El Camino Real y Las Misiones de la Peninsula de Baja California: The Camino Real and the Missions of Baja California Peninsula
The Royal Road to the missions of old California is traced on this unique 12 foot long screen-fold. It includes a foldout map six feet long and many illustrations and …
- Categories: History/Lore/Native Americans, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 30
- Dimensions: 12 x 17.5
- ISBN: 9786079500801
- Year Published: 2008
- Publisher: Instituto Nacional De Antropologia E Historia
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Etnobotánica Kumiai: El conocimiento sobre las plantas nativas de un pueblo indígena de Baja California
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.
$ 29.95 Add to cart -
Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California: Revised and Updated
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.
$ 19.95 Add to cart -
First People:: A Revised Chronology for San Diego
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
$ 29.95 Add to cart -
Fossil Treasures of the Anza-Borrego Desert: The Last Seven Million Years
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.
$ 49.95 Add to cart -
Gateway To Alta California: The Expedition to San Diego, 1769
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.
$ 39.95 Add to cart