Recently added articles from California History:
Convergence.(ABOUT THIS ISSUE)(Autry National Center of the American West)
Sep 01, 2009; ... In 2005, the California Historical Society and the Autry National Center of the American West entered into an unprecedented partnership intended to enhance appreciation and invigorate interpretation of the state's and region's history. In addition to the Autry's housing a significant ...
Convergence, California, and the newest Western history.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Convergence: "a way of seeing the large, evolving story of the American West as an interwoven tapestry of cultures and peoples, and a way of understanding how their stories are connected to one another--and to us." (1) Convergence as a way of interpreting Western history has ...
Art and adventure in nineteenth-century California.(COLLECTIONS)(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... It's all Bierstadt and Bierstadt and Bierstadt nowadays! What has he done but twist and skew and distort and discolor and belittle and be pretty this whole doggoned country? Why, his mountains are too high and too slim, they'd blow over in one of our fall winds .... I've herded colts two ...
The Warner's ranch Indian removal: cultural adaptation, accommodation, and continuity.(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Government seems to learn very slowly that Indians are not all alike, and that different stock or races of Indians ordinarily cannot be put together. We may consider their ideas or antipathies childish, pet, if we wish to be successful in dealing with them we must necessarily take some ...
The house of the three wise women: a family legacy in the American Southwest.(Leonora Muse Curtin, Leonora Frances Curtin Paloheimo, Eva Scott Muse Fenyes)(Essay)
Sep 01, 2009; ... The American West has been created both in tension and in tandem with the making, defending, and reclaiming of home places. Homes have preceded, shaped, accompanied, been altered by, defined, and survived the making of the American West. Over thousands of years, the West as a home place ...