New for Fall!

California Justice

Shootouts, Lynchings,
and Assassinations
in the Golden State

New for Fall!

Day of the Grizzly
The Tragic Story of the

Mighty California Grizzly
 

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.

 

 

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.
 

Windows on the Past

Early Valley Treasures

As Seen Through the Lens of

Claude C. "Pop" Laval

 

Windows on the Past

The Fresno Fair

As Seen through the Lens of Claude C. "Pop" Laval

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!

 

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.

 

California Badmen

Mean Men with Guns

 

California Feuds

Vengeance, Vendettas & Violence on the Old West Coast 

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.

 

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.

 

Murder by the Bay

Historic Homicide in and about the City of San Francisco 

San Francisco's Lost Landmarks

 

 

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.

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.

 

Dark and Tangled

Threads of Crime

San Francisco's Famous Police Detective Isaiah W. Lees

 

The Valley’s

Legends & Legacies

Vol I, II, III, IV, V

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

When the Great Spirit Died

The Destruction of the California Indians 1850-1860

Perilous Trails,

Dangerous Men

Early California Stagecoach Robbers and Their Desperate Careers

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.

 

California Desperados

Stories of Early California Outlaws in Their Own Words

 

 

Remembering

Cesar Chavez

 

 

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.

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.

The Newhall Incident
America’s Worst Uniformed

Cop Massacre

 

Three Strikes and You’re Out!
A Promise to Kimber:
The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law!

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.

 

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.

 

Durham's Place Names of California

Black Bart Boulevardier Bandit

The Saga of California's

Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought To Capture Him

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!

 

 

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.

 

San Juan Bautista

The Town, The Mission & The Park

 

 

California's Geographic Names

A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State

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.

 

 

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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