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In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors...
The Story of the Donner Party
“Compulsive reading—a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of a horrifying episode in the history of the west.” —Arthur M. Schlesin...
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From the author of Storm, a breathtaking novel about a raging fire and the path of destruction and change it leaves in its wake. Spitcat, a raging for...
A thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land. With Storm, first published in 1941...
A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
George R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the na...
A Chronicle of Counter-revolution and Allied Intervention
The Fight for Academic Freedom at the University of California
A Novel
The story of Judith Hingham-lovely New Engtland girl who ran away to share the changing fortunes of a Spanish Don in old California. Set in 1831, the ...
A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863
Presents a history of the decisive battle at Gettysburg based on military and personal accounts....
Almost the entire population has been wiped out by a major catastrophe. Ish searches to find other survivors and tries to rebuild society....
July 3, 1863
A Life of Captain George H. Derby, U.S.A.
In the annals of American humor, early San Diego figures primarily as the setting for George Horatio Derby?s most famous practical joke. Derby, who pr...
A Concise and Selective Dictionary for the Continental United States of America
In dictionary format, the origins of 12,000 American place-names are given with information on their location....
An Autobiography
A Laboratory Course
The foundations, growth, decline and sack of an imaginary Greek colonial city....
Their Origin and History in the Context of the English Language
A historical account of the origins and use of over 800 given names....
Argonaut and Exile, Being an Account of the Life of the Celebrated American Humorist ... Compiled from New and Original Sources
Revolution in San Francisco, 1851; an Account of the Hundred Days when Certain Citizens Undertook the Suppression of the Criminal Activities of the Sydney Ducks
The Story of the Stevens Party from the Reminiscences of Moses Schallenberger
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the b...
A poet tries to reconstruct the history of a place in the Nevada desert by a few relics he finds....
The Story of the Country Made Notable by the Stevens Party, the Donner Party, the Gold-hunters, and the Railroad Builders
Being an Account of the Life of the Celebrated American Humorist ...
The celebrated author of Names on the Land has here collected the histories of some 12,000 place-names--including the names of many notable places, ch...
The Life of William Henry Thomes ...
London, Dring, 1680