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California Legacy Santa Clara University and Heyday Books are pleased to publish the California Legacy series, vibrant and relevant writings drawn from California’s past and present. Santa Clara University—founded in 1851 on the site of the eighth of California’s original twenty-one missions—is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state. A Jesuit institution, it is particularly aware of its contribution to California’s cultural heritage and its responsibility to preserve and celebrate that heritage. Heyday Books, founded in 1974, specializes in critically acclaimed books on California literature, history, natural history, and ethnic studies. Books in the California Legacy series appear as anthologies, single author collections, reprints of important books, and original works. Taken together, these volumes bring readers a new perspective on California’s cultural life, a perspective that honors diversity and finds great pleasure in the eloquence of human expression. Reader’s Guides are now available for a number of titles. For more information, visit www.californialegacy.org. |
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Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me!: The Seasons of Native California California Indian writers and storytellers celebrate the seasons |
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A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson The complex legacy of a pioneer woman writer and advocate for Native American justice. |
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Dawson’s Avian Kingdom:
Selected Writings by William Leon Dawson Marauding magpies, saucy blackbirds, and hurtling swifts |
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Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America The classic volume on whales and pinnipeds |
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Essential Bierce A selection of the writings of Ambrose Bierce |
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Califauna: A Literary Field Guide A lively collection in words and images of our fellow creatures. |
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Essential Mary Austin An introduction to the pioneering feminist author who first acquainted America with its desert lands in Land of Little Rain |
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Inlandia: A Literary Journey through California's Inland Empire A groundbreaking anthology from the land east of Los Angeles |
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The Anza Trail and the Settling of California The epic true story of the journey to colonize San Francisco |
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Essential Muir An introduction to the great "poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist" |
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The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens The first of the muckrakers, in the finest tradition of American journalism. More… |
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Tales of the Fish Patrol In this Jack London classic collection of short tales, witness a portrait of the San Francisco Bay like you’ve never seen it—from the water and full of high adventure. |
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Essential Saroyan His name is William Saroyan and, of his work, this is what is essential. |
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The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: "Entertaining and instructive, like the demonstrated facts of Sinclair’s equally implausible but real life, so effectively rendered in Coodley’s imaginative anthology."—Los Angeles Times |
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Merton of the Movies Ever since its debut in the Saturday Evening Post in 1919, Merton of the Movies has delighted book and film lovers alike and is considered one of the first real Hollywood novels. |
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Gunfight at Mussel Slough: On May 11, 1880 at Henry Brewer’s homestead in the southern San Joaquin Valley district of Mussel Slough, seven men lost their lives during one of the deadliest shootouts in the history of the American West. |
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Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California Always outspoken, often outrageous, and fervent on behalf of their causes—prison reform, women’s rights, Spiritualism, phrenology, abolitionism, suffrage—these admirable idealists believed not only in the perfectibility of human kind, but also in their personal responsibility to point the way. |
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California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present is an authoritative yet accessible collection that brings together 150 years of California poetry in one volume: a comprehensive historical anthology of the state’s poetry from the gold rush era to the present that offers the finest poetry by California authors of all schools and ideas. |
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Mark Twain’s San Francisco From earthquakes, police scandals, and tantalizing silver mine bonanzas to elegant ladies blowing their noses in "exquisitely modulated tones" and seals "writhing and squirming like exaggerated maggots" below the Cliff House, Mark Twain has left us a vision of San Francisco that is at once fascinating and hilariously familiar. More... |
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Storm George R. Stewart Foreword by Ernest Callenbach Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-74-0, $13.95 Originally published in 1941, Storm masterfully weaves together a story of the violent storm "Maria" as it sweeps through California. Author George R. Stewart juxtaposes the forces of nature with the vulnerability of human beings, building tension through cinematic cutting from one setting to the next. The California Legacy series is proud to offer this new, elegant edition of Storm, featuring a foreword by Ernest Callenbach, noted author of Ecotopia. |
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Indian Tales Appealing to both adults and children, Indian Tales, combines fact and fiction, literature and anthropology as it recounts the journey of Bear, his wife Antelope, and their son Fox as they set out to visit relatives on the coast. |
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Dark God of Eros: A William Everson Reader This carefully chosen selection highlighting the range of Everson’s work will help readers better understand the life and many transformations of one of California’s most fascinating and elusive bards. |
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920 O'Farrell Street Harriet Lane Levy's memoirs of her childhood in San Francisco during the late 1800s give us a rare view into the traditional life and manners of an upper-middle-class Jewish family of the era. |
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Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California This unique anthology covers more than two centuries of Latino presence in California, combining vibrant works of poetry, fiction, commentary, and memoir. |
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California: A Study in American Character With keen attention to detail, Royce produced a passionate narrative—at times ironic, at times outraged, at times in awe of pioneer courage—that is admired to this day. |
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The Journey of the Flame Considered a masterpiece of California literature, The Journey of the Flame is the tale of a young boy’s adventures from Baja California to Monterey in the early nineteenth century. |
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One Day on Beetle Rock Sally Carrighar, foreword by David Rains Wallace, illustrations by Carl Dennis Buell Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-53-8, $14.95 Written with exquisite detail, Carrighar brings readers to an exhilarating consciousness of the skills, intelligence, and adaptations of Sierra wildlife. |
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Death Valley in ’49 William Lewis Manly, edited by LeRoy and Jean Johnson, introduction by Patricia Nelson Limerick Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-47-3, $18.95 This California classic provides a rare and personal glimpse into westward migration and the struggle to survive the desert crossing. |
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Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire A quintessential recounting of the California gold rush, as seen through the eyes of a New York reporter. |
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Fool’s Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader Examines some of historian/journalist Carey McWilliams’ most incisive writing on California and Los Angeles. |
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November Grass This novel transports readers to the coastal hills of San Diego County and brings clarity to questions of birth, death, and love. |
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Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846 This groundbreaking collection presents an insider’s view of Spanish and Mexican California from the writings of early explorers and residents. |
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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851–1852 With the grandeur of the Sierra Nevada as background, this collection presents an engaging, humorous, and empathetic picture of the gold rush. |
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Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori This collection features short stories, a never-before-published novella, and letters from a pioneer Japanese American author. |
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Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California’s Landscapes The beauty of California is reflected in this collection of pieces by John Muir, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, and sixty-four other writers |
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