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Author: Frank F. Latta
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Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Most of the oil is produced in the four most southerly counties of the San Joaquin Valley: Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern.
Author: Frank F. Latta
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Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Most of the oil is produced in the four most southerly counties of the San Joaquin Valley: Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern.
Author: Rick Wartzman
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 0786726075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's No. 1 bestseller, flying off store shelves at a rate of 10,000 copies a week. But in Kern County, California—the Joads' newfound home—the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind that fit of censorship, a moment when several lives collided as part of a larger class struggle roiling the nation. It is a superb historical narrative that serves as an engaging window into an extraordinary time of upheaval in America, when as Steinbeck put it, “A revolution is going on.”
Author: Anna Marie Hager
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520030350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Author: American Milch Goat Record Association
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Category : Goats
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
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Author: Carol C. Morgan
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434961613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 487
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: J. Alan Bartow
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Category : Algae, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1696
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Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Author: John Boessenecker
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806183160
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was he a Mexican American Robin Hood who suffered at the hands of a racist government? In this engrossing biography, John Boessenecker provides definitive answers. Bandido pulls back the curtain on a life story shrouded in myth — a myth created by Vasquez himself and abetted by writers who saw a tale ripe for embellishment. Boessenecker traces his subject's life from his childhood in the seaside adobe village of Monterey, to his years as a young outlaw engaged in horse rustling and robbery. Two terms in San Quentin failed to tame Vasquez, and he instigated four bloody prison breaks that left twenty convicts dead. After his final release from prison, he led bandit raids throughout Central and Southern California. His dalliances with women were legion, and the last one led to his capture in the Hollywood Hills and his death on the gallows at the age of thirty-nine. From dusty court records, forgotten memoirs, and moldering newspaper archives, Boessenecker draws a story of violence, banditry, and retribution on the early California frontier that is as accurate as it is colorful. Enhanced by numerous photographs — many published here for the first time — Bandido also addresses important issues of racism and social justice that remain relevant to this day.
