Santa Cruz Island Anthology
Author : Marla Daily
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Santa Cruz Island (Calif.)
ISBN : 9780874610772
Author : Marla Daily
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Santa Cruz Island (Calif.)
ISBN : 9780874610772
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Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Channel Islands (Calif.)
ISBN : 9780883881576
Author : John Gherini
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0806153792
Rising from the waters of the Pacific off the southern California Coast, Santa Cruz Island captures the imagination. Once home to a large Chumash population, in the nineteenth century it became a self-sufficient island rancho. As with all islands of beauty and size, it attracted people from the coastline. But as author John Gherini tells us in his prologue: The attractions of the island, however, routinely led people into conflict, wrapping it in a shroud like its morning fog. The modern history of the island would witness the passion to own it, to protect it, to use it and to fight over it. For the first time a thorough history of Santa Cruz Island's tumultuous past is provided. In pre-Columbian times it was a source of wealth to the indigenous peoples—the place where they made their shell bead money. During the Spanish-Mexican period it was a smuggler's haven, where fur hunters avoided the customs officials. As a land grant, it passed through the hands of Andres Castillero, William E. Barron, and eventually was purchased by Justinian Caire. The island flourished under the direction of Caire and his family. It was a secluded paradise off the Santa Barbara Coast, with extensive sheep and cattle holdings, as well as an esteemed winery. Seeds of conflict were sown by Justinian Caire's will when the island was divided between family members. The Stantons, Rossis, Gherinis, the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy all were involved over time. The tortured legal and family disputes are recounted for the first time in this important new work. Island ranching, hunting and recreation, and environmental challenges are described in detail. Recent historical events involving the establishment of the Channel Islands National Park are explored, as well. A handsome volume with notes, appendix, bibliography and index. Embellished with thirty-six photographs and maps from the author's family archives.
Author : William Davenport
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781931707817
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "photographs by William H. Davenport."--CD-ROM label.
Author : Frederic Caire Chiles
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806189452
One of the fabled Channel Islands of Southern California, Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental United States. This multifaceted account traces the island’s history from its aboriginal Chumash population to its acquisition by The Nature Conservancy at the end of the twentieth century. The heart of the book, however, is a family saga: the story of French émigré Justinian Caire and his descendants, who owned and occupied the island for more than fifty years. The author, descended from Caire, uses family archives unavailable to earlier historians to recount the full, previously untold story. Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island opens with Caire’s early life as a San Francisco businessman and his acquisition of Santa Cruz Island, where he created a ranching kingdom based on sheep, cattle, and wine. Frederic Caire Chiles examines the business practices of the Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island companies, documenting the island’s economic ups and downs and the environmental impact of ranching in those days. Above all, he looks at the family’s daily life on the island from the mid-nineteenth into the twentieth century. This epic contains tragic elements, as well. What began as a profitable ranch and an idyllic retreat ended in the family divided by bitter litigation and the forced sale of the island. Family diaries and letters enable Chiles to tell the story of an intensely private clan and its struggle to hold an island dynasty together. The history of Santa Cruz Island has never been told so thoroughly or so well. Replete with intimate portraits and high drama, this California story will move readers as it informs them.
Author : John Gherini
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780997636604
Author : Clifford McElrath
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 1967
Category : California
ISBN :
Author : David Edward Bunnell
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Margaret Holden Eaton
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Patrice Vecchione
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 1987
Category : American literature
ISBN :