History/Lore/Native Americans
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Baja Legends: The Historic Characters, Events and Locations That Put Baja California on the Map
The author of Baja Fever shares his extensive knowledge of the peninsula its colorful past and booming present in this easy to read reference book. History, lore, and amazing stories …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 272
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653475
- Year Published: 2002
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Basket Tales of the Grandmothers: American Indian Baskets in Myth and Legend
Limited Quantities Available! Don’t wait to order! Storytellers from over 100 Native American societies lend their voices to this fascinating collection of “Grandmothers’ basket tales.” From creation myths to ghost …
- Categories: All Regions, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: softcover
- Pages: 210
- Dimensions: 7 x 10
- ISBN: 9780962831416
- Year Published: 2000
- Language: English
- Publisher: Thornbrook Publishing
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Blood of the Band: An Ipai Family Story
The Ipai (also known as Kumeyaay) are the native people of northern San Diego County. This book illustrates how one Ipai family’s remarkable story forms part of the little-known, yet …
- Categories: California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 7 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384121
- Year Published: 2015
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Bodie: Good Times & Bad
Author Nicholas Clapp and photographer Will Furman portray Bodie in both vivid words and stunning photography—a town that had two sides, aptly described in an 1870s account… On the eve …
- Categories: California: Central and Northern, History/Lore/Native Americans, Natural History/Ecology.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 144
- Dimensions: 10 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384268
- Year Published: 2017
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 22.95 Add to cart -
California Indian Basketry: Ikons of the Florescence
This richly illustrated photographic overview captures the beauty and artistry of the remarkable world-class, Native American Indian baskets of California, circa 1895 to 1940, known as the Florescence or Flowering. …
- Categories: California: Central and Northern, California: General, California: Los Angeles/Orange County, California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: softcover
- ISBN: 9781941384527
- Format: hardcover
- ISBN: 9781941384510
- Format: deluxe-edition
- ISBN: 9781941384589
- Pages: 344
- Dimensions: 10 x 12
- Year Published: 2021
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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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, Children/Young Adult, 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: Children/Young Adult, 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.
$ 9.95 Add to cart -
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 -
Creating An Indian Style Coiled Basket
A fully illustrated narrative on how to harvest, cure, split, size, and weave basketry plan materials into a Southern California Indian style coiled basket. Justin Farmer is of Northern Diegueño …
- Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 148
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780976149217
- Year Published: 2012
- Language: English
- Publisher: Justin Farmer Foundation
$ 19.95 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