History/Lore/Native Americans
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The Cuyamacas: The Story of San Diego's High Country *out of stock*
Author: Leland Fetzer
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
Author: Mel Freilicher
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, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 116
- ISBN: 9780983783725
- Year Published: 2013
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M.B. Curtis
Author: Richard Schwartz
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, 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
Author: Richard Schwartz
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, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 307
- Dimensions: 9 x 6
- ISBN: 9780967820460
- Year Published: 2019
- Language: English
- Publisher: RSB Books
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The Outlaw’s Violin: Or Farewell, Old West
Author: Nicholas Clapp
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.
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The Whaley Family, Past and Presence: The Story Behind America's Most Haunted House®
Author: Garner A. Palenske
The Whaley Family, Past and Presence offers a captivating exploration into San Diego’s rich history, masterfully woven by Garner Palenske. The book begins by setting the stage with the early …
- Categories: Biography, California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 108
- Dimensions: 6
- ISBN: 9798218404659
- Year Published: 2024
- Language: English
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Thirst For Independence: The San Diego Water Story
Author: Dan Walker (1922-2015)
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.
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Tom Hom **OUT OF PRINT** Ebook Available via Amazon: Rabbit On A Bumpy Road
Author: Tom Hom
**Available as an eBook. Please check with your preferred online source for availability – 9781941384039.** RABBIT ON A BUMPY ROAD is Tom Hom’s memoir—a story of courage and endurance …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction, 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.
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Universal Tool Kit: Out of Africa To Native California
Author: Paul D. Campbell
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
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Unmaking of Americans: 7 Lives
Author: Mel Freilicher
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, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 138
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780976580164
- Year Published: 2007
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Virginia City: To Dance with the Devil
Author: Nicholas Clapp
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.
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Waiting For Tsunami: Coastal Hazards of San Diego County, California
Editors: Cari GomesDavid M. Bloom
This volume, named for the traverse across the region’s mountainous spine, explores yet another aspect of little-known features of coastal attractions familiar to millions and “roads less traveled” along Old …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Geoscience, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 268
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780916251239
- Year Published: 2012
- Publisher: San Diego Association Of Geologists
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Where Water is King **OUT OF STOCK**: The Colorado Desert Becomes The Imperial Valley - An Improvisational History
Author: Kevin Eugene Kelley
Where Water is King provides us with a history of the Imperial Valley and its relationship with water. Learn how the Imperial Irrigation District acquired more than half of the …
- Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Natural History/Ecology.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 130
- Dimensions: 9 x 7 1
- ISBN: 9781941384664
- Year Published: 2022
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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