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Life Amongst the Modocs
Life Amongst the Modocs
Joaquin Miller
Paperback
$30.00
General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans
General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans
Alan Rosenus
Paperback
$28.00
Joaquin Miller

Life Amongst the Modocs

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First printed in 1873, Life Amongst the Modocs is based on Miller’s years among the mining towns and Indian camps of northernmost California during the tumultuous 1850s. As a nature writer, he was among the first to capture the fierce power and sublime beauty of California’s wild landscape. He was also a maverick in his portrayal of the state’s emotional landscape, dealing as no one has before or since with themes such as loneliness and defeat, melancholy and rage, weakness and strength, joy and loyalty.
Life Amongst the Modocs
Alan Rosenus

General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans

$28.00 Save $-28.00
Best Biography of the Year—Western Writers of America Spur Award. 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 California and wielded enormous political power throughout the province. While serving as military governor during Mexican rule, he established an open immigration policy that encouraged and facilitated the American entrada to northern California. This richly textured and thoughtful biography explores the contradictions and passions of this most complex of men, shedding light not only on Vallejo, but on the formation of California as a modern state.
General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans