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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”
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”
The young Iranian woman adjusts her hijab headscarf, stands tall on her surfboard, and catches a wave rolling toward the southern shore of Iran. It is a shoreline so dry, empty and forbidding, it looks like a moonscape. The woman is part of a small group of Iranian women, who have introduced the sport of Continue Reading »
June 24, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Aill na Searrach, Andre Stojka, audiobook, Baluchistan, Charmain London, Cliffs of Moher, Easkey Britton, freestyle relay, Hawaiian Islands, headscarf, hijab, i-Tunes, Iran, Iranian women, Irish National Surfing Championships, Jack London, Listen2Read, Los Angeles, Marion Poizeau, Mark Twain, Mona Seraji, Olympic Gold medals, Shalha Yasini, Southern California, Surf Bathing, surfing, Tehran, Vimeo, “father of surfing”, “Into The Sea”, “The Cruise of the Snark”. Duke Kahanamoko
To celebrate Earth Day, actor William Shatner has proposed a very good idea. Since there is a severe drought in California, and there is an abundance of water in other areas, why not build a pipeline to bring the water from where it is to where it is needed? Shatner says he will try to raise Continue Reading »
April 22, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Andre Stojka, Armargosa River, audiobooks, Austin, California Aqueduct, Castaic Junction, Colorado River Canals, David Pogue, Death Valley, Earth Day, Glen Canyon, Glen Canyon Dam, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Independent Book Publishers of America, John Wesley Powell, Kickstarter, Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Las Vegas, Listen to Read, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Basin, Metropolitan Water District, Nevada, New Mexico, Salt Creek, San Diego, Silverwood Lake, Southwest, William Shatner, Yahoo, “Death Valley in 1849”, “The Exploration of the Colorado River and It’s Canyons”
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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