California

One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along …

The California Wine Industry, 1830-1895 offers a meticulously researched account of the formative years of California's viticulture, tracing its evolution from the mission period …

Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor …

Make your trip to San Francisco and the Bay Area extraordinaryDriving across the Golden Gate Bridge. Exploring the streets of Chinatown. Taking a ride on a historic cable car. San …

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Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had …

In ‘Over the Rocky Mountains’ readers are reunited with charismatic hero Will Osten, whose adventures began in the 1869 adventure story ‘Sunk at Sea’. Following the death of his …

Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did 'civilization' appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to …

In the shadow of the Vietnam War, a significant part of an entire generation refused their assigned roles in the American century. Some took their revolutionary politics to the …

David Nomura har bygget opp et suksessrikt hedgefond i San Francisco. Plutselig dukker den beryktede japanske mafiaen, Yakuza, opp - og vil ha tilbakebetalt en investering på 40 …