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Ski Tales
The History of China Peak and Sierra Summit
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California Snatch Racket
Kidnappings During the Prohibition and Depression Eras
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by James Benelli
$10.95 • 6" x 9" • Tradepaper • ISBN 9781884995668
Written by an old timer who has been schussing the nooks and the crannies, the steeps and the deeps, for 50 years,
Ski Tales: The History of China Peak and Sierra Summit reveals the unique, dramatic, and often humorous history of Sierra Summit, from its beginning as China Peak to the present day.
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by James W. Smith and W. Lane Rogers
$16.95 • 6" x 9" • Tradepaper • ISBN 978-1-884995-63-7
In California in the 1920s and 1930s, kidnapping—nicknamed the snatch racket by a cynical newspaperman—was the most booming criminal enterprise around. Driven by greed, desperation and sometimes plain stupidity, ransom artists preyed indiscriminately on Hollywood socialites, wealthy heiresses, and even poor people who couldn’t pay a dime.
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Death in California
The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the State of California
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California Justice
Shootouts, Lynchings,
and Assassinations
in the Golden State
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by David Kulczyk
$15.95 • 6" x 9" • Tradepaper • Index • ISBN 1884995-57-9
Ah, carefree California—the
land of beaches, sunshine, celebrities … and so many shocking and gruesome
ways to die. David Kulczyk, the dean of offbeat California history,
chronicles 31 bizarre and grisly true stories in his new book, Death in California: The Bizarre,
Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the Golden State.
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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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Windows on the Past
Early Valley
Treasures
As Seen Through the Lens of
Claude C. "Pop" Laval
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Day of the Grizzly
The Tragic Story of the
Mighty California Grizzly
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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 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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California Badmen
Mean Men with Guns
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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 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 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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Murder by the Bay
Historic Homicide in and about the City of San Francisco
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California Feuds
Vengeance, Vendettas & Violence on the Old West
Coast
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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 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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Dark and Tangled
Threads of Crime
San Francisco's Famous Police
Detective Isaiah W. Lees
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San Francisco's Lost Landmarks
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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 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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When the Great Spirit Died
The Destruction of the California Indians 1850-1860
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The Valley’s
Legends & Legacies
Vol I, II, III, IV, V
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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 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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California Desperados
Stories of Early California Outlaws in
Their Own Words
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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 • 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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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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The Newhall Incident
America’s Worst Uniformed
Cop Massacre
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Remembering
Cesar Chavez
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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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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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San Juan Bautista
The Town, The Mission & The Park
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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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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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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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