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California, Ladies of.
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641.59793999999999
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2013
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Froese, Brian, 1969- author.
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289.7794 23
Publication Date
2015
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"Books geographically focused on the midwestern and eastern states dominate the study of Mennonites in America. The intriguing history of Mennonites in the American West remains untold. In From Digging Gold to Saving Souls, Brian Froese introduces readers for the first time to the California Mennonite experience. Although a few Mennonites did dig for gold in the 1850s, the real story of Mennonites in California begins in the 1890s with westward migrations for fertile soil and healthy sunshine. By the mid-twentieth century, the Mennonite story in California had developed into an interesting tale of religious conservatives--traditional agrarians--finding their way in an increasingly urban and religiously pluralistic California. Some California Mennonites negotiated new identities by endorsing conservative evangelicalism; some found them in reclamations of sixteenth-century Anabaptists. Still other Mennonites found meaningful religious experience by engaging in social action and justice even when these actions appeared in "secular" forms. These emerging identities--Evangelical, Anabaptist, and secular--covered a broad spectrum, yet represented a selective retaining and discarding of Mennonite religious practices and expressions. From Digging Gold to Saving Souls touches on such topics as migration, pluralism, race, gender, pacifism, institutional construction, education, and labor conflict, all of which defined the experience of Mennonites of California. Brian Froese shows how this experience was a rich, complex, and deliberate move into modern society. In From Digging Gold to Saving Souls, he introduces readers to a dynamic people who did not simply become modern, but who chose to modernize on their own terms"--
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95068.8672
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Monahan, Sherry.
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663.2
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2013
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85044.3047
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Wade, Tony.
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647.95794520000004
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2022
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85043.5781
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Golla, Victor, author.
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497.09794 23
Publication Date
2011
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Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types, and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages--from the earliest vocabula.
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85039.6250
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Thompson, Bob
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ARC 641.220973 CAL
Publication Date
1977
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77634.6328
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Briscoe, John.
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663.209794
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2018
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77634.5313
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Hill, Mary, 1923-
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979.404 21
Publication Date
1999
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"Mary Hill's book chronicles this important chapter in California's history. Combining the narrative skill of the storyteller with the expertise of the geologist, Hill gives us a complete and fascinating picture of California gold - its origins in the Earth, the history of its discovery, techniques of mining it, and its uses in modern times. The excitement of the gold rush is brought alive in these pages. But Hill also discusses the devastating costs - the extinction of the Native American tribes who had lived on the land for many centuries; the displacement of the Spanish-speaking residents (the Californios); and the silting of rivers from mining operations that led to severe flooding and ruined farmland."--Jacket.
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77632.8281
by
De Nevers, Greg.
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508.794
Publication Date
2013
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The California Naturalist Handbook provides a fun, science-based introduction to California's natural history with an emphasis on observation, discovery, communication, stewardship and conservation. It is a hands-on guide to learning about the natural environment of California. Subjects covered include California natural history and geology, native plants and animals, California's freshwater resources and ecosystems, forest and rangeland resources, conservation biology, and the effects of global warming on California's natural communities. The Handbook also discusses how to create and use a field notebook, natural resource interpretation, citizen science, and collaborative conservation and serves as the primary text for the California Naturalist Program.
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77632.7188
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Badger, K. Reka.
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641.2209794
Publication Date
2015
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Take an irresistible journey to the congenial tasting rooms of a tri-county paradise. With The California Directory of Fine Wineries: Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino as your guide, you wander through world-famous Napa, home of the state's most recognized cellar landmarks. You meander scenic back roads on the way to Sonoma's premier wineries. You travel to rustic Mendocino, where the winemakers themselves pour you a glass of their specialty. This fully updated, seventh edition of The California Directory of Fine Wineries: Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino is an essential guide to both glamorous estates and intimate, family-owned vineyards. This book includes profiles of 68 Northern California wineries describing their striking architecture, behind-the-scenes tours, and bountiful gardens; descriptions of the wineries' distinctive features, from 100-year-old wine caves and museum-quality art exhibitions to bocce ball courts and tastings of local olive oils and other gourmet foods; more than 200 color images by renowned photographer Robert Holmes; sidebars listing directions, vineyard tours, wine tastings, special culinary events, and nearby attractions; full-page maps showing the 68 profiled destinations, plus more than 100 additional wineries in the three counties.
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77630.6641
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Simon, André Louis, 1877-1970.
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ARC KLI 663.220973 CAL
Publication Date
1951
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77624.6875
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Holmes, Robert.
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641.2209794
Publication Date
2012
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This guidebook gives you everything you need to know when touring California's beautiful wine country If California were an independent nation it would be the fourth leading wine-producing country in the world after Italy, France and Spain. And nowhere else will you find more visitor-friendly wineries. Sampling these and tasting their wines is a rewarding experience, but, faced with the bewildering variety of wineries on offer, it's hard to know where to start. This book guides the wine touristnot only through the better-known regions of Napa and Sonoma, but also the Central Coast, Santa Barbara County and Southern Californiaand gives ample recommendations on where to stay and eat in and around each region. A Traveller's Wine Guide to California contains spectacular photography as well as easily-accessible information on such topics as The Winery Experience and The System of Classification and Grape Varieties.
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