Calling California Home: A Lively Look at What It Means to Be a CalifornianCouncil Oak Books, 1999 - Počet stran: 276 California represents something curious and remarkable located out at the furthest edge of the New World - where the sun always shines and anything is possible." So says Heather Waite in this thoroughly delightful second offering in the Calling It Home series. With an eye for telling detail and a sense of humor, Waite surveys California from prehistory to the present, revealing the origins, attitudes, quirks, curiosities, and little-known facts that make residents of the Golden State unique. |
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... Chumash Indians made beads from oyster and abalone shells . They used them for money , which introduced the concept of currency to North America . Chumash women were avid gamblers , tossing dice across a flat , coiled basket.
... Chumash Indians made beads from oyster and abalone shells . They used them for money , which introduced the concept of currency to North America . Chumash women were avid gamblers , tossing dice across a flat , coiled basket.
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... women , without any man among them , for they lived in the fashion of Amazons . They were of strong and hardy bodies , of ardent courage and great force . Their island was the strongest in all the world , with its steep cliffs and rocky ...
... women , without any man among them , for they lived in the fashion of Amazons . They were of strong and hardy bodies , of ardent courage and great force . Their island was the strongest in all the world , with its steep cliffs and rocky ...
Strana 10
... woman in the state . The African grandparents of Maria Rita Valdez were among the founders of Los Angeles . They owned Rancho Rodeo de Las Aguas , better known today as Beverly Hills . Another African American , Francisco Reyes , owned ...
... woman in the state . The African grandparents of Maria Rita Valdez were among the founders of Los Angeles . They owned Rancho Rodeo de Las Aguas , better known today as Beverly Hills . Another African American , Francisco Reyes , owned ...
Strana 12
... woman , who had recently established a boarding - house here , pulled up stakes , and was off before her lodgers had even time to pay their bills . Debtors ran , of course . I have only a community of women left and a gang of prisoners ...
... woman , who had recently established a boarding - house here , pulled up stakes , and was off before her lodgers had even time to pay their bills . Debtors ran , of course . I have only a community of women left and a gang of prisoners ...
Strana 16
... women fol- lowed their men west . They established homes and new lives for their husbands and children , and with them , civility and culture followed . Those old timers were rough , tough , and living in times when brawn counted for ...
... women fol- lowed their men west . They established homes and new lives for their husbands and children , and with them , civility and culture followed . Those old timers were rough , tough , and living in times when brawn counted for ...
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Where We Live | 35 |
Our Work Ethic | 75 |
California Cuisine | 109 |
How We Have Fun | 153 |
Arts and Education | 189 |
The Final Words | 266 |
The Californian Bill of Rights | 269 |
Sources | 271 |
About the Author | 273 |
About the Press | 274 |
More Wildcat Canyon titles | 275 |
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Strana 8 - By California was implied insularity coupled with riches. "Know tlmt on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons. They were of strong and hardy bodies, of ardent courage and great force. Their island was the strongest in all the world, with its steep cliffs and rock shores.
Strana 13 - The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory are of such an extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief were they not corroborated by the authentic reports of officers in the public service who have visited the mineral district and derived the facts which they detail from personal observation.
Strana 12 - ... house for me caught the moving infection. Husband and wife were both packing up; the blacksmith dropped his hammer, the carpenter his plane, the mason his trowel, the farmer his sickle, the baker his loaf, and the tapster his bottle. All were off for the mines, some on horses, some on carts, and some on crutches, and one went in a litter. An American woman, who had recently established a boarding house here, pulled up stakes, and was off before her lodgers had even time to pay their bills.
Strana 12 - One morning in January— it was a clear, cold morning: I shall never forget that morning— as I was taking my usual walk along the race after shutting off the water, my eye was caught with the glimpse of something shining in the bottom of the ditch. There was about a foot of water running then. I reached my hand down and picked it up; it made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold. The piece was about half the size and of the shape of a pea. Then I saw another piece in the water.
Strana 8 - In this island, called California, there were many griffins, on account of the great ruggedness of the country, and its infinite host of wild beasts, such as never were seen in any other part of the world. And when these griffins were yet small, the women went out with traps to take them. They covered themselves over with very thick hides, and when they had caught the little griffins they took them to their caves, and brought them up there. And being themselves quite a match for the griffins, they...