History/Lore/Native Americans
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Strangers In A Stolen Land: Indians of San Diego County from Prehistory to the New Deal
The story of the Native Americans of San Diego County from 1850 through the 1930’s is told from their prehistoric origins through the Spanish, Mexican, and American periods. The history …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 216
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653826
- Year Published: 2008
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Sugar Bear Story: A Barbareno Chumash Tale
This children’s tale is based on a Chumash oral legend about how to be a good host. Brightly illustrated by the author, the book incorporates Chumash words and traditional designs, …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Children/Young Adult, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 32
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780932653703
- Year Published: 2005
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 9.95 Add to cart -
Tequila, Lemon & Salt: From Baja… Tales of Love, Faith - and Magic
The border town of Tecate comes to colorful life and the lives of its inhabitants unfold, full of surprises and a few broken dreams in this new collection of stories …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780932653659
- Year Published: 2004
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 14.95 Add to cart -
The Cuyamacas: The Story of San Diego's High Country *out of stock*
An informal and engaging history of San Diego’s own mountain district, from the late 1700s and the founding of the first permanent settlements in the Cuyamacas, up to the 2003 …
- Categories: California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 384
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653949
- Year Published: 2008
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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The Encyclopedia of Rebels
In The Encyclopedia of Rebels, Mel Freilicher continues his lifelong engagement with the intersections between history, fantasy, and memoir. The narrator throughout is a college teacher and community activist struggling …
- Categories: All Regions, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 116
- ISBN: 9780983783725
- Year Published: 2013
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 13.95 Add to cart -
The Franciscan Missions of California, 1769-1823: A New Look at the 22 Franciscan Missions
The California Franciscan missions comprise of a series of 22 religious missions (outposts) founded between 769 and 1832. The Franciscan missions examined in this book are located in the land …
- Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 124
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
- ISBN: 9781532332531
- Year Published: 2017
- Language: English
- Publisher: M & E Books
$ 18.95 Add to cart -
The History & Mystery of the Whaley House: Old Town, San Diego
Built in 1858, the Whaley House is one of the oldest structures in San Diego, and is considered to be one of the most haunted houses in America. The story …
- Categories: California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780980095036
- Year Published: 2016
- Language: English
- Publisher: Save Our Heritage Organization
$ 18.99 Add to cart -
The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M.B. Curtis
Winner of the 2018 Bronze IPPY for biography, The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty tells the biography of immigrant actor M.B. Curtis who saved the Statue of Liberty in 1886, …
- Categories: California: Central and Northern, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 307
- Dimensions: 6.25 x 9.25
- ISBN: 9780967820453
- Year Published: 2017
- Language: English
- Publisher: RSB Books
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The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M.B. Curtis
Winner of the 2018 Bronze IPPY for biography, The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty tells the biography of immigrant actor M.B. Curtis who saved the Statue of Liberty in 1886, …
- Categories: California: Central and Northern, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 307
- Dimensions: 9 x 6
- ISBN: 9780967820460
- Year Published: 2019
- Language: English
- Publisher: RSB Books
$ 19.95 Add to cart -
The Outlaw’s Violin: Or Farewell, Old West
A battered and broken homemade violin, discovered at a Mojave Desert swap meet, was to provide an insight into the life of Billy “Kid” Fraser. Born on the planks of …
- Categories: California: Central and Northern, California: General, Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, United States: Western.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 152
- Dimensions: 7 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384497
- Year Published: 2019
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 16.95 Add to cart -
The Wooden Bells of Mission San Buenaventura
While the intrigue and romance of bells have, for centuries, captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, the bells found in the museum of the mission in …
- Categories: California: Los Angeles/Orange County, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 126
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
- ISBN: 9781532327605
- Year Published: 2016
- Language: English
- Publisher: M & E Books
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Thirst For Independence: The San Diego Water Story
A combination of history and current events coverage, this book depicts dramatically San Diego’s long and desperate search for an independent and reliable water supply source. Modern water distribution is …
- Categories: California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Natural History/Ecology.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653628
- Year Published: 2004
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 9.95 Add to cart -
Tom Hom: Rabbit On A Bumpy Road
RABBIT ON A BUMPY ROAD is Tom Hom’s memoir—a story of courage and endurance in meeting life’s challenges to achieve “The American Dream.” Tom was born into a Chinese family in …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 392
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384114
- Year Published: 2015
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 14.95 Add to cart -
Universal Tool Kit: Out of Africa To Native California
The making and use of stone tools by Native Californians followed a pattern from the earliest Stone Age in Africa. It was a universal survival kit surprisingly similar the world …
- Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Natural History/Ecology.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 314
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780979378010
- Year Published: 2014
- Publisher: Paul D. Campbell
$ 19.95 Add to cart -
Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives
Dorothy Dandridge, Bettie Page, Joey Stefano, Margaret Fuller, Margaret Sanger, Bayard Rustin, Billy Stayhorn. The Unmaking of American 7 Lives sketches an accurate outline of these admirable, complex, and in …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 138
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780976580164
- Year Published: 2007
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 12.95 Add to cart -
Virginia City: To Dance with the Devil
Where else but in Virginia City could a penniless Irish miner in a few short years amass a fortune greater than any of America’s robber barons, simply by dint of …
- Categories: History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, United States: Western.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 216
- Dimensions: 9 x 10
- ISBN: 9781941384152
- Year Published: 2015
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 25.95 Add to cart