The Westerners Brand Book #20 (1997)

Rancho Days in Southern California – An Anthology with New Perspectives

Kenneth Pauley, Editor

Contents

• Baja California and the Earliest Ranchos at La Frontera – Walk Wheelock
• The Mission Ranchos – Msgr. Francis J. Weber
• Rancho Tujunga, A Mexican Land Grant, 1840 – Viola Carlson
• Rancho Boca de Santa Monica – Ernest Marquez
• Horses, Roosters, Bears and Bulls: Work and Sport in Pastoral California – Abraham Hoffman
• Rowland and Workman’s Rancho La Puente – Donald H. Pflueger
• Rancho San Jacinto Viejo and the Estudillo Family – John W. Robinson
• Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara ó La Colonia – Powell Greenland
• The San Bernardino Rancho: A Story Less Simple – Larry Burgess
• Rancho Cañon de Santa Ana – Gordon Morris Bakken
• Rancho Calleguas – Robert W. Blew
• The British Ranchero, the Scotch Paisano and the Indian Wife – Sheldon Jackson
• The Rancho in Two Worlds: Don Abel Stearns and the Los Alamitos Rancho – Ronald C. Woolsey
• William G. Dana and Rancho Nipomo – Thomas R. Tefft
• Triumph Over Controversy: the Survival of Rancho El Tejon – Raymund F. Wood
• Richard Gird: Man of Many Frontiers – Developer of Rancho Santa Ana del Chino – Gloria Ricci Lothrop

500 copies were printed.

The Westerners Brand Book #19 (1996)

El Presidio de San Francisco, A History Under Spain and Mexico, 1776-1846

John Phillip Langellier and Daniel B. Rosen

Issued simultaneously by the Arthur H. Clark Company as volume 19 in their “Frontier Military Series.”

Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Editor

400 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #18 (1991)

The Bidwell-Bartleson Party.

1841 California Emigrant Adventure.

The Documents and Memoirs of Overland Pioneers

Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Editor

Contents

• A Journey to California, 1841: The Journal Account of John Bidwell
• California 1841: An Immigrant’s Recollections of a Trip Across the Plains – John Bidwell
• The First Emigrant Train to California – John Bidwell
• Statement of Historical Facts of California – Josiah Belden
• Letter of Josiah Belden to his Sister, Mrs. Eliza M. Bowers
• A Visit to California in Early Times – Col. J.B. Chiles
• Narrative of Nicholas “Cheyenne” Dawson: Overland to California in 1841
• Narrative of Charles Hopper, A California Pioneer of 1841
• The Two Diaries of James John
• The Recollections of Nancy Kelsey
• An 1856 Letter by James P. Springer
• The Recollections of Robert H. Thomas
• Extracts from Three Letters by Pierre Jean DeSmet to his Superior
• Narrative of the Rockies – Father Gregory Mengarini
• Historical Notes – Father Nicholas Point
• Narrative of a Tour from the State of Indiana to the Oregon Territory in the Years 1841-2 – Joseph Williams
• The 1841 Overland Caravan: A Census Summary
• Biographical Sketches of the 1841 California Overland Pioneers
• Miscellaneous Documents

400 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #17 (1986)

Konrad F. Schreier, Jr., Editor

Contents

• Before the Wheel – Indian Transportation B.C. – Richard W. Cunningham
• The Empty Quarter – Richard F. Logan
• The Far West Mail, 1849-1859 – Frank Q. Newton
• Commerce in the Far West – A Selection of Early Advertising
• Expresses: An American Enterprise – from Harper’s Magazine, 1875
• Charles Crocker to Collis P. Huntington, 1883 – with comment by David F. Myrick
• California: How to Get There and What to See – Charles Nordhoff (1872)
• The Development of Public Transportation in Los Angeles – Donald E. Torguson
• Interurbans and Land Values – Charles Alma Byers (1914)
• Testing California’s Highways, 1919-1923 – Abraham Hoffman
• A Chronological Perspective of the Far West – Konrad F. Schreier, Jr.

500 copies were printed.

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The Westerners Brand Book #16 (1982)

Raymund F. Wood, Editor

Contents

• Sunbathing in Southern California: an Historical Overview – Jayne Bernard
• A Better Country in which to Settle: a Biographical Sketch of William Wolfskill – Willis Blenkinsop
• The Indians and General Scott – Iron Eyes Cody
• The Independence – 74: California’s Ship of the Line – Richard W. Cunningham
• A Portfolio of Paintings – Andy Dagosta
• Sixty Years of American Rodeo in England, 1887-1947 – Kristine Fredriksson
• California, the Name: New Materials and Slants – John P. Harrington
• Griffith Park’s Greatest Tragedy – Abraham Hoffman
• The Ordeal of General Wright: a Study of Secessionist Sentiment in California, 1861-1864 – John W. Robinson
• The Firm of Main & Winchester, Pioneer California Saddle Makers – Konrad F. Schreier, Jr.
• The Northwest Mounted Police: the Early Years – Harlan Thompson
• New Light on Peter Lebec – Walt Wheelock

500 copies were printed.

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