Author: Shirley Harriet HannahPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of California
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Early Development of the Salinas Valley
Author: Shirley Harriet HannahPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of California
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Salinas Valley
Author: Jennie Dennis VerardoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Early Development of the Salinas Valley
Author: Shirley Harriet HannahPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salinas River Valley (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
10,000 Years on the Salinas Plain
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Grounds for Dreaming
Author: Lori A. FloresPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300216386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores’s first book offers crucial insights for today’s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.
Early Salinas
Author: Gary S. BreschiniPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738529936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The city of Salinas is named for the broad saltwater slough that once seeped in from Monterey Bay, saturating this plain between the Santa Lucia and Gavilian Mountains. Originally used as range land for cattle, a town developed from a stage stop after the Gold Rush, and the drained land produced grain and other crops. After World War I, immensely profitable large-scale lettuce, broccoli, and artichoke production, known as "green gold," made Salinas one of the wealthiest cities in the United States. Isolated from its neighbors by mountains on both sides, early Salinas seemed a world unto itself, and its residents, both humble and wealthy, and the seemingly infinite green rows that surrounded it, provided similarly endless inspiration to novelist John Steinbeck, who recorded life here in the first half of the 20th century and imbued it with meaning.
Salinas Valley
Author: Margaret E. ClovisPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738530482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Salinas River meanders through the center of a long, lovely valley, sometimes ducking underground in summer, or diverting into canals to water fields that stretch away to the chiseled Santa Lucia Mountains. Memorialized by novelist John Steinbeck, and often called the salad bowl of the nation, Salinas Valley was the site of the Spanish Mission Soledad, founded in 1791. During the rancho era, vast herds of cattle waded though grasslands and later, failed gold miners founded towns like Salinas at well-traveled crossroads. Flourishing grain crops attracted the Southern Pacific Railroad, and as the shining track was laid, Chualar, Gonzales, Soledad, King City, San Lucas, San Ardo, and Bradley sprouted alongside them. Resorts like Paraiso Springs once brought visitors to the foothills, while people of many nationalities came to live and work in settlements like Greenfield, where irrigation soaks the dark, fertile loam by the sinuous river that now supports a mighty $3 billion agricultural industry.
East of Eden
Author: John SteinbeckPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440631328
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean, and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah’s Book Club back, East of Eden has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century.
The Salinas Valley
Author: Rudolph J. GomezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monterey County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Salinas Valley, a History of America's Salad Bowl
Author: Burton AndersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780970586001
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description