Rolle Andrew F. - California: A History, 8th Edition

1. Chapter 02
2. Chapter 41

1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 02
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 04
5. Chapter 05
6. Chapter 06
7. Chapter 07
8. Chapter 08
9. Chapter 11
10. Chapter 12
11. Chapter 13
12. Chapter 14
13. Chapter 15
14. Chapter 16
15. Chapter 17
16. Chapter 18
17. Chapter 19
18. Chapter 20
19. Chapter 21
20. Chapter 22
21. Chapter 23
22. Chapter 24
23. Chapter 26
24. Chapter 27
25. Chapter 28
26. Chapter 29
27. Chapter 30
28. Chapter 31
29. Chapter 32
30. Chapter 33
31. Chapter 34
32. Chapter 35
33. Chapter 36
34. Chapter 37
35. Chapter 38
36. Chapter 39
37. Chapter 41

Eighth Edition

Andrew Rolle

Arthur C. Verge

This eighth edition first published 2015
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Edition history: Harlan Davidson (1e 1963, 2e 1969, 3e 1978, 4e 1987, 5e 1998, 6e 2003, 7e 2008)

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Rolle, Andrew F.
California : a history / Andrew Rolle, Arthur C. Verge. Eighth edition.
pagescm
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-70104-1 (pbk.)
1.CaliforniaHistory.I.Verge, Arthur C.II.Title.
F861.R78 2015
979.4dc23

2014018389

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Cover image: San Francisco cable car Vito Palmisano / Getty Images
Cover design by Simon Levy

• Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
• Joshua Tree National Monument
• Mono home
• Hupa in ceremonial dance costume
• Hupa female shaman
• Cabrillo National Monument
• The Golden Hind
• Monterey coastline
• Mission San Juan Bautista
• Mission San Luis Rey
• Mission San Juan Capistrano
• Fort Ross
• Native American rancho worker
• Po Pico
• Kit Carson dimestore novel cover
• Two Donner Party survivors
• John C. Frmont
• Los Angeles,.1857
• The Devils Golf Course
• A Sundays Amusement in the Mines
• Mormon Island Emporium advertisement
• The Great Seal of 1849
• Vigilantes in San Francisco
• North Beach, San Francisco, ca. 1860
• Hopkins and Stanford residence, San Francisco
• Crocker and Colton mansions, San Francisco
• Placer miner, ca. 1890
• Wells Fargo Office, ca. 1866
• Southern California mines by stagecoach
• Old ranchos of L.A. County
• African American placer miner at a sluice
• Leland Stanford
• Chinese construction workers at Cape Horn
• Vicente Lugo ranch house, 1892
• Orange pickers, ca. 1895
• Harvesting in San Fernando Valley, ca. 1900
• Keppler anti-Chinese cartoons
• Chinese butcher shop in San Francisco
• Wi-ne-ma, or Tobey Riddle, and Modocs
• San Francisco Bulletin correspondent McKay
• Indians Welcome, Indian Land logo, Alcatraz
• Charlotta Bass
• Yosemites El Capitan
• Market Street, San Francisco
• San Francisco earthquake damage
• Displaced San Francisco residents
• San Francisco graft prosecution defendants
• Hiram Johnson
• Hotel del Coronado
• Broadway, Los Angeles, 1889
• Early filming at Santa Monica
• Treasure Island dedication ceremony, 1937
• John Muir
• Imperial Valley, 1941
• Giant redwoods
• Destruction of Los Angeles Times building
• Migrant mother and baby
• Civilian Conservation Corps workers, 1933
• Aerial view of San Simeon
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Dawn of movie making
• Birth of a Nation
• J. Paul Getty Museum
• Tiger Woods
• Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh
• Evacuation sale, San Francisco
• Tagged Japanese American boy
• Douglas Aircraft plant wartime workers
• Newspaper seller, August 14, 1945
• Freeway
• Pacific Electric Railway
• B-1 bomber
• Earl Warren
• Richard Nixon
• Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
• Robert F. Kennedy and Cesar Chavez
• First Lady Lady Bird Johnson
• Los Cerritos Shopping Mall
• Flood control and conservation
• Water tunnel through the Tehachapi Range
• Mount Shasta
• Global climate change at Venice Pier
• Wind farm
• Ronald Reagan
• Jerry Brown
• Antonio Villaraigosa
• Los Angeles riots, 1992
• Nancy Pelosi and Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Venice Beach pot shop

• California topography
• Major native linguistic groups
• Early Spanish voyages
• Spanish North America
• California Missions
• Early explorers of the West 18261831
• Early explorers of the West 18331844
• Early trails of the West
• Early transport routes of the West
• War with Mexico
• Main routes to the gold fields
• Counties of California
• Major routes of California
• Los Angeles and vicinity