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History
Tamalpais Walking: Poetry, History, and Prints **UPDATE, 5/19/09: We are out of the first edition. The second printing will be coming at the end of the summer. The book, however, is still available from the following independent bookstores: Book Passage (Corte Madera), Copperfield's (Sonoma County), Book...
Mountains and Molehills Frank Marryat arrived in California from England in 1850 with a manservant and three hunting dogs, hoping to find inspiration for a travel memoir like the one he had previously written about Borneo. What emerged was one of the liveliest...
Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada This riveting account of one of the most notable personalities of the mountain climbing world reconstructs the life of legendary mountaineer Norman Clyde (1885-1972). He made his mark on history with more than one hundred and thirty first ascents throughout...
The Yosemite Grant, 1864–1906: A Pictorial History This book is a comprehensive, well-illustrated history of the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees. Focused on the history behind the breathtaking landscape, it contains detailed information supplemented by a comprehensive index and bibliography. The story of...
Railroads of the Yosemite Valley This is a reprint of the intriguing story of four short-line railroads that operated in the Merced River Canyon to serve Yosemite National Park. Originally published in 1963, this volume assembles more than two hundred black-and-white photographs of railroads and...
Ho! For Yo-Semite: By Foot, Horseback, Horse-Stage, Horseless Carriage, Bicycle, and Steam Locomotive: Eleven Original Accounts of Early Day Travel to Yosemite Valley This colorful collection of early visits to Yosemite chronicles the first-hand accounts of adventures through the park on foot, on horseback, or even on bicycle. These records are an informative, humorous, and oftentimes remarkable look into personal experiences with the...
Yosemite's Tioga Country: A History and Appreciation Yosemite's Tioga Road provides travelers with a high-country experience unlike any other, replete with stunning vistas, forests, and perfect opportunities to relax, reflect, and play. This book recounts the region's intriguing history, from Native American inhabitants, to gold-rushers, to sheepherders....
All the Saints of the City of the Angels:
Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets One fateful afternoon in August of 2000, J. Michael Walker began to notice how many L.A. streets began with the letter "S." Upon further inspection, he discovered that something else was repeating itself: they were all named for saints! Thus...
Nothing Left in My Hands: The Issei of a Rural California Town, 1900–1942 Nothing Left in My Hands is a moving portrait of the lives of early Japanese immigrants in Pajaro Valley, California. Regarded as highly skilled berry growers, the Issei—first-generation Japanese immigrants—were instrumental in the development of strawberry farming in the region....
A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush Although it is often thought that modern California, like the goddess Minerva, was born full-formed after the discovery of gold in 1848, this important collection of writing illustrates that its modern roots go back almost a century earlier. In A...
Workin' Man Blues:
Country Music in California California has been fertile ground for country music since the 1920s, nurturing a multitude of talents from Gene Autry to Glen Campbell, Rose Maddox to Barbara Mandrell, Buck Owens to Merle Haggard. In this affectionate homage to California's place in...
Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California JoAnn Levy has pieced together for the first time the grand story of two of American history's forgotten treasures: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby. Together they made national headlines with their writings and their beliefs, including abolitionism, women's suffrage,...
Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II It is a little-known fact that in California during World War II, Italian Americans were subjected to an 8pm to 6am curfew, searches of their homes, seizure of their property, and exclusion from prohibited zones along the coast. In a...
Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848 From the editors of the highly influential Lands of Promise and Despair, here are thirteen women's firsthand accounts from the time California was part of Spain and Mexico. When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out...
Storm A violent storm sweeps through California, taking on a life of her own. Making her way from the Pacific Coast, she gains momentum as she approaches the Sierra and transforms into a blizzard of great strength, covering mountain ranges and...
The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852 The Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare—a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, from accounts of "murders,...
The Port Chicago Mutiny During World War II, Port Chicago was a segregated naval munitions base on the outer shores of San Francisco Bay. Black seamen were required to load ammunition onto ships bound for the South Pacific under the watch of their white...
Past Tents: The Way We Camped From the award-winning author of Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly comes this lighter look at Americans' infatuation with the great outdoors. Mining once again the vast archives at the Bancroft Library, Susan Snyder has mapped out this cheeky yet...
No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California, 1849-1869 Now in its second edition with a new introduction by the editor, No Rooms of Their Own brings together an important collection of writings by women of California's Gold Rush era, from the celebrated Dame Shirley and Ina Coolbrith to...
Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 Spanish and Mexican California is generally depicted through the journals of sea captains and other visitors. This groundbreaking collection offers another perspective: early California seen through the eyes of those who explored it, colonized it, and settled it in the...
The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California Novelist and muckraker Upton Sinclair will forever be associated with The Jungle, however, Sinclair deserves equal accolades for his entertaining critiques of Southern California's oil industry, movie studios, and urban sprawl—most of which still apply today. The Land of Orange...
Jewish Life in the American West The history of Jews in America is traditionally a history of Jews in New York. Yet many Jews bypassed the Lower East Side completely—coming to America through San Francisco or the port of Galveston, Texas—and forged communities and identities as...
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for The San Francisco News in 1936, three years before The Grapes of Wrath. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the...
Gunfight at Mussel Slough: Evolution of a Western Myth "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." With this statement of fact begins...
General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans The penetrating biography of one of the central—and most controversial—figures in California's early history. General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was one of California's most distinguished citizens in the mid-nineteenth century. A frontier cosmopolitan and visionary, Vallejo owned vast ranchos in northern...
Gables and Fables: A Portrait of San Francisco's Pacific Heights Charming and deeply informed, part historical detective work and part gossip column, this storied tour of 110 of Pacific Heights' grand old edifices offers an architectural and social history of one of San Francisco's most fabled neighborhoods. The neighborhood of...
The Front Lines of Social Change:
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), close to three thousand young, idealistic Americans formed the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and joined thirty-five thousand people from around the world in the fight against Franco's fascists, who were supported by Hitler and Mussolini....
Fool's Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader "It suddenly occurred to me that, in all the world, there neither was nor would ever be another place like this City of the Angels. Here the American people were erupting, like lava from a volcano; here, indeed, was the...
First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians When L. Frank and Marina Drummer went on the road in 2002, they set out to visit as many people from different California tribes as possible. Crisscrossing the state, they taped hundreds of hours of interviews and collected copies of...
Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire Bayard Taylor was among the thousands of young men who spilled into California in the tumultuous year 1849. Dispatched by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune, Taylor was to report on the madness, exuberance, and upheaval of the California...
Each A Mighty Voice: A Century of Speeches from The Commonwealth Club of California The Commonwealth Club, the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, has hosted presidents, national and world leaders, policymakers, leading lights in the arts and sciences and countless celebrities, beginning with Theodore Roosevelt in 1911. Heyday Books is proud to...
Death Valley in '49 In the winter of 1849, William Lewis Manly, a pioneer immigrant to California, and his companions blundered into Death Valley as they turned south from the Rockies in search of a quicker route to the gold fields. The group was...
Courthouses of California: An Illustrated History Courthouses of California is a carefully researched and superbly designed photo-documentary book chronicling 150 years of judicial architecture in California. With introductory essays by distinguished members of the fields of history, law, and architecture, and lavishly illustrated with hundreds of...
Chief Marin:
Leader, Rebel, and Legend It's a little known fact that the San Francisco Bay Area's Marin County is named after a Coast Miwok chief who achieved notoriety for defying Spanish authority over his people. Anthropologist and archaeologist Betty Goerke has pieced together a portrait...
California: A Study of American Character California has recently been blessed with a number of careful and colorful works by authors who do not hesitate at—and perhaps even enjoy—shattering the state's historic icons in order to present an honest view of the state's formative events and...
These fifteen stories bring the California Gold Rush to life with their boisterous assemblage of rough-clad miners, pistol-packing preachers, iron-willed women, and philosophical gamblers. Theirs was an unpredictable world, filled with gold strikes and freak tragedies, when the wisdom of...
Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case Part courtroom drama, part adventure story, Rudolph M. Lapp's Archy Lee captures the essence of the celebrated 1858 trial of an alleged fugitive slave in California. When Archy Lee is arrested in Sacramento for refusing to return to Mississippi with...
The Anza Trail and the Settling of California In 1774, the Spanish viceroy of Mexico sent Juan Bautista de Anza, captain of the Presidio at Tubac (in what is now Arizona), to lead two expeditions: the first to find a safe overland route to Monterey, and the second...
Allensworth, the Freedom Colony: A California African American Township In 1908, Colonel Allen Allensworth founded a small town in the dry alkaline soil of California's Central Valley. A high-ranking U.S. Army officer and chaplain who had escaped from slavery, he envisioned a utopian community where African Americans could thrive....
920 O'Farrell Street: A Jewish Girlhood in Old San Francisco Originally published in 1937 in the later years of her extraordinary life, 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...
One Hundred Years in Yosemite: Omnibus Edition This is a reprint of a time-tested history of Yosemite National Park by one of its most respected historians. What distinguishes this version is that it includes the best features from earlier editions—significant historical documents, a chronology (updated through 1991),...
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