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New for Fall!
California Justice
Shootouts,
Lynchings,
and Assassinations
in the Golden State
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New for Fall!
Day of the Grizzly
The Tragic Story of the
Mighty California Grizzly
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by David Kulczyk
$15.95 • 6" x 9" • Tradepaper • Index • ISBN
1884995-54-5/
Meet the victims and
perpetrators responsible for California’s most notorious shootouts, lynchings, and assassinations.
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by William B. Secrest
$25.00 • 6" x 9" • 350 pages • Hardcover •
Illustrations • ISBN 1-884995-53-5
In 1769, some 10,000 grizzlies roamed California.
One hundred years later, these magnificent beasts faced extinction.
Today they are long gone.
In The Day of the Grizzly, prominent California historian William
Secrest, Sr. tells the fascinating story of the most ferocious
animal in the West and how it met it’s demise at the hand of man.
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Windows on
the Past
Early Valley
Treasures
As Seen
Through the Lens of
Claude C.
"Pop" Laval
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Windows on
the Past
The Fresno Fair
As Seen through the Lens of Claude C. "Pop" Laval
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by Elizabeth M. Laval
Research & Photographic
Editor, Stephen L. Brown
Contributing Author,
William J. Conway, Jr.
$29.95 • 200 pages • Hardcover • ISBN
1-884995-47-0
Covering the Fresno area into 1918, this
book looks at important events that were taking place in the Valley
during the turbulent teens. Actual newspaper articles from the time
are incorporated with the writings of "Pop" Laval to form a chronicle
of life in this region unlike any before published!
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by Elizabeth M. Laval
Research & Photographic
Editor, Stephen L. Brown Contributing Author, William J. Conway, Jr.
$19.95 • Trade Paperback
Claude C. "Pop" Laval's camera lens missed little of the excitement of
the early fairs. Many of his magnificent photographs are available in
print for the first time in this book.
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California
Badmen
Mean Men with
Guns
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California
Feuds
Vengeance, Vendettas & Violence on the Old West Coast
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by William Secrest
$15.95 • Trade Paperback • 272 pages
6" x 9"• Index • Bibliography • ISBN
1-884995-51-9
California Badmen is a
exploration of little-known Western frontier gunfighters. Billy
Mulligan, Sam Temple, Peter Olsen, Joe Dye, Bob McFarlane and those
responsible for the Rancheria killings are brought back through the
pages and taking their stand in Californian history. The riotous lives
of these unique collection of mean men with guns spill over the
California frontier and rival the likes of “Wild Bill” Hickok, Billy the
Kid, and the Earp Family.
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by William B. Secrest
$15.95 (24.95 Canada) • 272 pages • Trade Paper
ISBN 1-884995-42-X
Noted California historian William Secrest brings us
another in his list of best-selling sagas chronicling the ignominious
yet fascinating side of the state.
Here, for the first time, are the tales of personal
vendettas in a time when men made their own law and left their women to
pick up the pieces.
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Murder by the
Bay
Historic Homicide in and about the
City of San Francisco
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San
Francisco's Lost Landmarks
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by Charles F. Adams
$14.95 (22.95 Canada) • 298
pages • Trade Paper
ISBN 1-884995-46-2
Murder has a long and distinguished history in San
Francisco. The homicides chronicled here have been selected because a
convergence of personality, circumstance, character and geography makes
them particularly San Franciscan.
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by James R. Smith
$14.95 (22.95 Canada) • 298 pages • Trade Paper
ISBN 1-884995-44-6
With long forgotten stories and evocative photographs,
the book showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim
memories and hazy legends.
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Dark and Tangled
Threads of Crime
San Francisco's
Famous Police Detective Isaiah W. Lees
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The Valley’s
Legends & Legacies
Vol I, II, III, IV, V
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by William Secrest
$15.95 ($24.95 Canada) • Trade Paperback
He came to California with the great Gold Rush,
but instead of riches, Isaiah W. Lees discovered his great talent for
solving crimes and catching criminals.
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By
Catherine Morison Rehart
$18.95 • Trade Paperback
Employing her near-magical ability to charm and
delight, Catherine Morison Rehart continues to entertain us with true tales
of Valley denizens of the past. |
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When the Great Spirit Died
The
Destruction of the California Indians 1850-1860
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Perilous Trails,
Dangerous
Men
Early California Stagecoach Robbers and Their Desperate Careers
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by William Secrest
$15.95 • 352 pp • Trade Paper •
Photographs/Illustration
Includes extensive amounts of previously unpublished materials; many of the
photographs and eyewitness accounts appear for the first time. Here the
pioneers and the Indians tell their own stories. Their words tell us all we
need to know about the fate of the California Indian.
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By William Secrest
$15.95 • 272 pp •Trade Paper •
Photographs/Illustration
Punctuated by gunshots and posse hoofbeats,
these true tails, many told for the first time, illustrate, in both words
and rare photographs, the perilous trails of dangerous men from a time
gone forever.
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California Desperados
Stories of Early California Outlaws in
Their Own Words
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Remembering
Cesar Chavez
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By William Secrest
$15.95
• 272 pp • Trade Paperback Photographs/Illustration
Witness the cruel confessions of the ruthless gang of California bandits
who murdered a whole family, men, women and children, in the opening days
of the Gold Rush.
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Hardcover •
10" x 9" • 112 pages • $25.00
ISBN 1-884956-11-4 / 9781884956119
In this
collection of firsthand accounts by those who knew him best, a
portrait of an uncommonly complex man, both driven and focused, yet
humble, empathic and exceedingly principled, emerges. The reader gains
an understanding of the yoke Chavez chose to place onto his own
shoulders as well as the ideals he employed to accomplish for the
migrant farmworkers what many
predicted would be impossible. |
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The Newhall Incident
America’s Worst Uniformed
Cop Massacre
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Three Strikes and You’re Out!
A Promise to Kimber:
The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law!
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by Chief John Anderson with Marsh Cassady
$14.95 • Trade Paperback • 192 pages
Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red
Pontiac with two men in it is stopped, four young California Highway
Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wounds.
The incident still stands as the worst of its kind in
America.
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By Mike Reynolds & Bill Jones
with Dan Evans
$24.95 • Hardcover • 272 pages •Photographs
This is the story of the toughest sentencing
law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the
fight to see it enacted and who believe in it passionately.
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Durham's Place Names of California
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Black Bart Boulevardier Bandit
The Saga of California's
Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who
Sought To Capture Him
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Compiled by David L. Durham
California's most complete place-name series.
Fourteen volumes cover the state of California by region.
California’s North Coast • Northeastern
California • California’s Old Wine Country • San Francisco Bay Area
• California’s North Sacramento Valley California’s Gold Country
Including Yosemite National Park • California’s Eastern Sierra
Including Death Valley • California’s Desert Counties ...and more!
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By George Hoeper
$9.95 ($15.95 Canada) • 168 pp
Paperback • Historic Photographs
• Maps
California Gold Country historian George Hoeper reveals
what promises to be the final piece to the 100-year-old puzzle of the
infamous poetry-writing stagecaoch robber Black Bart.
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San Juan Bautista
The Town, The Mission & The Park
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California's Geographic Names
A Gazetteer of Historic and
Modern Names of the State
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By Charles Clough
$18.95 • 144pp • Trade Paperback
Bibliography • Index
Step into the vibrant past of San Juan
Bautista and encounter gentle Mustune Indians, hardworking Franciscan
Monks, fierce outlaws and a host of other fascinating characters.
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Compiled by David L. Durham
$195 Hardcover • 1,694 pp • 61/2"x
11" • Bibliography • Index
The definitive gazetteer of California. This book lists more than 50,000
geographical features including topographical features such as ridges,
peaks, canyons and valleys; water features such as streams, lakes,
waterfalls and springs; and cultural features such as cities, towns,
crossroads and railroad sidings. |
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