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title:The Other California : The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters Western Literature Series
author:Haslam, Gerald W.
publisher:University of Nevada Press
isbn10 | asin:087417225X
print isbn13:9780874172256
ebook isbn13:9780874174106
language:English
subjectCentral Valley (Calif. : Valley)--Description and travel, Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)--Social life and customs, Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)--Literary collections.
publication date:1994
lcc:F868.C45H37 1994eb
ddc:979.4/5
subject:Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)--Description and travel, Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)--Social life and customs, Central Valley (Calif. : Valley)--Literary collections.
Page iii
Western Literature Series
Page iv
Other Books by Gerald W. Haslam
Fiction
Okies: Selected Stories
Masks: A Novel
The Wages of Sin: Collected Stories
Hawk Flights: Visions of the West
Snapshots: Glimpses of the Other California
The Man Who Cultivated Fire and Other Stories
That Constant Coyote: California Stories
Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State (ed.)
Nonfiction
Forgotten Pages of American Literature (ed.)
The Language of the Oil Fields
Western Writing (ed.)
California Heartland: Writing from the Great Central Valley (co-ed.)
Literary History of the American West (co-ed.)
Voices of a Place: Social and Literary Essays from the Other California
Coming of Age in California: Personal Essays
The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland
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The Other California
The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters
Gerald W. Haslam
Page vi Western Literature Series Editor John H Irsfeld A list of - photo 2
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Western Literature Series Editor: John H. Irsfeld
A list of titles in the series appears in the back of the book.
The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters by Gerald W. Haslam was originally published in 1990 by Joshua Odell Editions, Capra Press, of Santa Barbara, California. The 1994 University of Nevada Press enlarged edition incorporates six new essays and minor editorial changes throughout the text; new front matter and a newly designed dust jacket reflect the new publisher.
The paper used in this book meets the requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI z39.48-1984. Binding materials were selected for strength and durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Haslam, Gerald W.
The other California: the great central valley in life and letters
/ Gerald W. Haslam.
p. cm.
Originally published: Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press 1990
ISBN 0-88496-321-7
1. San Joaquin River Valley (Calif.)Description and travel.
2. San Joaquin River Valley (Calif.)Social life and customs.
3. San Joaquin River Valley (Calif)Literary collections.
F868.S173H37 1990
979.4'8dc20Picture 3 CIP
University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright 1990, 1994 Gerald W. Haslam Copyright 1994 James D. Houston Copyright 1978 Jerry McMillan All rights reserved Cover art: California (1978) Jerry McMillan. Photograhic print. Sulfide duotone from a black and white photographic print, 20 x 16. Collection of the Oakland Museum, Prints and Photographs Fund. Cover design by Erin Kirk New Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Page vii
For W. H. Hutchinson, "Hutch"...
This Valley isn't the same without him.
Page ix
Contents
Foreword
xi
The Other California
1
The Lake That Will Not Die
17
The Water Game
31
The Kern, My River
37
California's Literary Landscape
55
Other Voices, Other Lives
72
The Grapes of Wrath: A Book That Stretched My Soul
87
Father Comes Home
96
What about the Okies?
105
Oil Town Rumble: The Young Men of Taft
124
William Saroyan and the Critics
135
Remembering Hutch
147
Bronzing the Valley
157
The Bakersfield Sound
169
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