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Tag Archives: California
The first Presidential Election in California was in 1852, pitting Democrat Franklin Pierce against the Whig Candidate, General Winfield Scott. California’s 4 electoral votes went to Pierce. According to Horace Bell in his book “Reminiscences of a Ranger,” political campaigns and elections in early Los Angeles, California were often wonders to behold. Los Angeles Continue Reading »
January 14, 2021, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Andre Stojka, California, Calle des los Negros, Chinese Massacre, Democrat, Electoral vote, Franklin Pierce, General Winfield Scott, Horace Bell, Listen 2 Read audiobooks, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Rangers, Whig, “Reminiscences of a Ranger”
Two major storms in different parts of the United States changed the mindset of Writer and Activist for Native Americans Charles Fletcher Lummis. The First Storm On February 4, 1884, a heavy rain began to fall on Chillicothe, Ohio, where Charles Fletcher Lummis lived and worked as an editor of the weekly newspaper, the Chillicothe Leader. Continue Reading »
October 4, 2018, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Activist for Native Americans, Alameda Street, Andre Stojka, Atchison, Audible.com, audiobooks, Cajon Pass, California, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Chillicothe Leader, Chillicothe Ohio Storm 1884, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway, Cleveland, Colorado, Columbus, Dagget, El Nino, El Rancho hacienda, GooglePlay.com, Great American Desert, Harriso Gray Otis, I-Tunes.com, Listen to Read, Listen2Read.com, Los Angeles, Los Angeles River, Los Angeles Times, Malaria, Mission San Gabriel, Mojave Desert, mosquito, New Mexico Pueblos, Pio Pico, San Bernardino Mountains, Scioto River, Scribed.com, Southwest Museum, Tiwa family, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Tune-in.com, Whittier, “A Tramp Across the Continent”
Donald Trump’s re-examination of Bears Ears Monument in Utah, covered by the Antiquities Act, reminded me why the Antiquities Act had been created in the first place in 1903. THE HOMESTEAD ACT Before there was an Antiquities Act, there was a Federal Homestead Act of 1862, where the Federal Government Continue Reading »
July 6, 2017, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Andre Stojka, Antiquities Act, Arizona; Devils tower, Arizona; Pinnacles, Audible.com, Bears Ears Monument, California, California and also Mesa Verde in Colorado. Sierra Club, Charlie Leadig, Donald Trump, Federal Government, Glacier Point Camp, Grand Canyon, Idaho, John Muir Exhibit, Lightning Trail, Listen To Read Audiobooks, Listen2Read.com, Mariposa Grove, Montana, New Mexico; Tonto Cliff Dwellings, President Abraham Lincoln, Raymond California, Stickeen, The Homestead Act, The Yosemite Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Utah, Wawona Hotel, Wyoming, Wyoming; Gila Cliff Dwellings, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite Valley
The famous naturalist John Muir was angry. He had lost a major battle protecting Yosemite National Park, the land he had loved for over 30 years. As founder of the Sierra Club, Muir had battled against the railroad industry wanting to install tracks through Yosemite, sheep herders wanting to graze every piece of greenery, lumber companies Continue Reading »
September 9, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Amazon.com, Andre Stojka, Audible.com, audiobook, Awahnee Hotel, Big Burn, Bridal Veil Falls, California, Chief Forester, Conservation, Crater Lake Oregon, Devil’s Tower Wyoming, El Morrow New Mexico, Federal Government, Gifford Pinchot, Grand Canyon Arizona, Half Dome, Hetch Hetchy Valley, I-Tunes.com, John Muir, Lake Don Pedro, Listen to Read, Listen2Read.com, Los Angeles, Mesa Verde Colorado, Miwok People, National Park Service, Owens Valley, O’Shaughnessy Dam, Raker Act, San Fernando Valley, San Francisco, San Francisco Earthquake, Sierra Club, Sierra Muntains, Stickeen, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, WindCave South Dakota, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Valley
Gold mining in the late 1800’s was a business without controls. You dug in the ground at your own peril, and if you found gold or metal you dug it out, washed it out, sluiced it out or scratched it out. There were no laws governing how you operated, safety conditions or environmental considerations – Continue Reading »
August 13, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1849, Abandoned mines, Andre Stojka, Animus River Colorado, audiobook, California, Colorado River, Commissioner Ernest Kuhlman, David Ostrander, Durango Colorado, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Gold, Gold King Mine, Gold Mining, gold rush, Hydraulic mining, John Wesley Powell, Lake Powell, Las Vegas, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Los Angeles, Newsweek Magazine, polluted mine water, riparian laws, San Diego, San Juan County, San Juan River, Seth McGrath, Silverton Colorado, Southwest, Superfund, yellow sludge, “Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons”
In the early 1870’s, the spirits from the other side were summoned to Riverside, California by spiritualist Eliza Tibbets, who was well know for her séances on her farm near the Santa Ana River. Eliza Tibbets was newly arrived in Riverside from the East with her husband, Luther. Luther Tibbets had been in the Continue Reading »
February 24, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Andre Stojka, audiobook, Bahia Brazil, California, Civil War, Eliza Tippets, Gettysburg Civil War Memorial Battlefield, Hypnotic Séance, John Erickson, Joshua Slocum, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Monitor, Navel Orange, Pernambuco Brazil, Richard Bergh, Riverside, Sandy Hook New Jersey, Santa Ana River, Séance, Spiritualism, Superintendent of Gardens and Grounds, US Department of Agriculture, Washington Navel Orange, William O Saunders, “Voyage of the Destroyer”, “Voyage of the Liberdade”
The current heat wave in California reminded me of a past heat wave that helped destroy the dreams of one of America’s most prolific writers. It was August,1913 and the temperature reached 100 degrees in Sonoma County, California. Jack and Charmian London had just completed construction of their new home, located on their ranch Continue Reading »
September 25, 2014, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Albert J Farr, Andre Stojka, arson, audiobook, Beauty Ranch, California, Charmian London, Colliers Magazine, fireplace mantel, Heat wave, Jack London, Jack London death November 22 1916, linseed oil, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Listen2Read.com, San Francisco Earthquake, Snark, Sonoma County, spontaneous combustion, The Cruise of the Snark, Wolf House, Wolf House fire, Wolf House ruins, wood fireplace mantel
I visited a special plant nursery last week to help me cope with California’s serious drought. It’s a nursery that specializes in California native plants – flora that survive in the arid Southern California climate of very little rain. As I walked through the various plant displays at the Theodore Payne Foundation, I kept Continue Reading »
April 11, 2014, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: audiobooks, California, California native plants, California Wildflower, Californios, Charles Fletcher Lummis, Cincinnati Ohio, drought, Listen2Read, Los Angeles, nursery, Southwest Museum, Spanish land grants, the Theodore Payne Foundation, “A Tramp Across the Continent” Theodore Payne
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