Checklist.

Johnson, Charles N.

Apostol, Jane. Duncan Gleason: Artist, Athlete, and Author. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 2003. $32 (cloth); $22 (paper); both prices include tax and shipping. "The story of a remarkable fourth-generation Californian who achieved fame as illustrator, marine artist, champion gymnast, skilled yachtsman, authority on early sailing ships, and author." Order from: Historical Society of Southern California; 200 E. Avenue 43; Los Angeles, CA 90031.

Boyd, Nan Alamilla. Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. $27.50 (cloth) ISBN: 0520204158. Order from: University of California Press; California-Princeton Fulfillment Services; 1445 Lower Ferry Rd.; Ewing, NJ 08618.

Brown, Forman. Olvera Street and the Avila Adobe. Guasti, CA: Hutson Publications, 2003. Reprint of original 1930 edition; illustrated by Mabel L. Piper. $2.50 (paper). Order from: Hutson Publications; Post Office Box 1314; Guasti, CA 91743.

Butler, Phyllis Filiberti. The Valley of Santa Clara: A Guide to the Heart of Silicon Valley. Menlo Park, CA: Bay Research Press, 2002. Second, revised edition. $15 (paper) ISBN: 0916286029. Order from: Bay Research Press; 817 Partridge Ave., No. 17; Menlo Park, CA 94025.

Chamberlain, Newell D. The Call of Gold: True Tales on the Gold Road to Yosemite. Lafayette, CA: Great West Books, 2002. Revised edition. $15.95 (paper) ISBN: 0944220134. Order from: Great West Books; Post Office Box 1028; Lafayette, CA 94549.

Clark, Arthur H. and Patrick J. Brunet. The Arthur H. Clark Company: An American Century, 1902-2002. Introduction by Richard Weatherford. Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2002. "A complete history and bibliography of the Clark Company." $75 (cloth), shipping charge of $4.50 for one book, except when check or money order accompanies order. ISBN: 0870623192. Order from: The Arthur H. Clark Company; Post Office Box 14707; Spokane, WA 99214.

Barstow, Diantha L. The Colemans of California: A Family History Focusing on the Lives of John Coleman, Edward Coleman, and Persis Sibley Coleman. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2003. $40 (cloth) ISBN: 0972737200. Order from: Diantha L. Barstow; 1 Log Landing Rd.; Savannah, GA 3141-13040.

Emery, Rose Peters. Footsteps in the Soil: A Portuguese-Californian Remembers. San Jose: Portuguese Heritage Publishing, 2003. "A 97-year-old woman's memoirs of growing up on her family's ranch in the San Ramon Valley." Inquiries to: Portuguese Heritage Publishing; Post Office Box 32517; San Jose, CA 95126.

Etulian, Richard W., ed. Writing Western History: Essays on Major Western Historians. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2002. Reprint edition; new foreword by Glenda Riley. $19.95 (paper) ISBN: 0874175178. Order from: University of Nevada Press; Mail Stop 166; Reno, NV 89557-0076

Franks, Joel S. Whose Baseball? The National Pastime and Cultural Diversity in California, 1850-1941. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2001. $65 (cloth) ISBN: 081083927X. Order from: Scarecrow Press; 4720 Boston Way; Lanham, MD 20706, or at www.scarecrowpress.com.

Gillis, Michael J. and Michael E Magliari. John Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer 1841-1900. Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003. $39.50 (cloth), shipping charge of $4.50 for one book, except when check of money order accompanies order. ISBN: 0870623168. Order from: The Arthur H. Clark Company; Post Office Box 14707; Spokane, WA 99214.

Gray, Paul Bryan. Forester vs. Pico: The Struggle for the Rancho Santa Margarita. Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003. $29.50 (cloth) ISBN: 0870622714, shipping charge of $4.50 for one book, except when check or money order accompanies order. ISBN: 0870623192. Order from: The Arthur H. Clark Company; Post Office Box 14707; Spokane, WA 99214.

Hayes. Kevin J. An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. $27.95 (cloth) ISBN: 0803224087. "In 1887 a twenty-one-year old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865-1948) rode a bicycle from Herimer, New York to San Francisco in seventy-two days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks." Order from: University of Nebraska Press; 233 North 8th Street; Lincoln, NE 68588-0255.

Johns, Doug and Dennis Kruska. Publications of Dawson's Bookshop: A Checklist. San Francisco: Johns' Western Gallery, 2003. "Checklist of the 344 publications of Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1906-1999." $22.50 (cloth), signed by Glen and Muir Dawson; $12.50 (paper). Order from: Johns' Western Gallery; 57 Post Street, No. 915; San Francisco, CA 94104.

Kamholz, Edward J., Jim Blain, and Gregory Kamholz. The Oregon-American Lumber Company: Ain't No More. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2003. $65 (cloth) ISBN: 0804744815. Order from: Stanford University Press, 1450 Page Mill Rd.; Palo Alto, CA 94304.

Keller, Jean A. Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902-1922. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. $24.95 (paper) ISBN: 087013650X. Order from: Michigan State University Press; 14059 Harrison Rd., Suite 25; East Lansing, MI 48823.

Levy, Harriet Lane. 920 O'Farrell Street: A Jewish Girlhood in Old San Francisco. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2003. "A rare account of the life and manners of an upper-middle-class San Francisco Jewish family of the late 1800s." $14.95 (paper) ISBN: 0930588916. Order from: Heyday Books; Post Office Box 9145; Berkeley, CA 94709.

Lipsky, William. San Francisco's Midwinter Exposition. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2002. $19.95 (paper) ISBN: 0738520088. "On January 27, 1894, as the rest of the country bundled up against the winter weather, the people of San Francisco opened the California Midwinter International Exposition and invited the world to enjoy 'The Land of Sunshine, Fruit, and Flowers.'" Order from: Arcadia Publishing; 3047 North Lincoln Avenue, Suite 410; Chicago, IL 60657.

Margolin, Malcolm. The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2003. $14.95 (paper) ISBN: 0930588010. Order from: Heyday Books; Post Office Box 9145; Berkeley, CA 94709.

Merrill, Karen R. Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between Them. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. $50 (cloth) ISBN: 0520228626. Order from: University of California Press; 1445 Lower Ferry Rd.; Ewing, NJ 08618.

Nichols, Jeremy Dwight. Cemeteries of Sonoma County, California: A History and Guide. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2003. $18 (paper) publisher number N2269F. Order from: Heritage Books, Inc.; 1540-E Pointer Ridge Place; Bowie, MD 20716.

Outland, Charles F. Man Made Disaster: The Story of St. Francis Dam. Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003. $75 (cloth, limited to 500 copies), $24 (paper), shipping charge of $4.50 for one book, except when check or money order accompanies order. ISBN: 0870623192. Order from: The Arthur H. Clark Company; Post Office Box 14707; Spokane, WA 99214. In Southern California quality paperback copies can be ordered from: Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd.; Pasadena, CA 91101, or the Ventura County Museum of History & Art; 100 E. Main Street, Ventura CA 93001.

Palmquist, Peter. Points of Interest: California Views 1860-1870: The Lawrence and Houseworth Albums. Introduction by Gary F. Kurutz. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 2002. $35 (paper) ISBN: 1893163458. Order from: Berkeley Hills Books; 1329 Ninth St.; Berkeley, CA 94710.

Palmquist, Peter, Thomas R. Kailbourn, and Martha A, Sandweiss. Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2001. $125 (cloth) ISBN: 0804738831. Order from: Stanford University Press; 1450 Page Mill Rd.; Palo Alto, CA 94304.

Rodgers, J. David, et al. "The St, Francis Dam Disaster Revisited." Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, and Ventura: Ventura County Historical Society. A combined, special issue of the Southern California Quarterly and the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly. $18 (paper). Reprint edition, published on the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the dam disaster. In Southern California copies may be ordered from: Vroman's Bookstore; 695 East Colorado Blvd.; Pasadena, CA 91101 or from the Ventura County Museum of History & Art; 100 East Main Street; Ventura, CA 93001. Copies are also available from the Arthur H. Clark Company; Post Office Box 14707; Spokane, WA 9921.

Rudisill, Richard, Peter Palmquist, and Jeremy Rowe. Photographers: A Sourcebook for Historical Research. Nevada City: Carl Mautz Books, 2002. $45 (cloth) ISBN: 188769417X; $25 (paper) ISBN: 1-887694-18-8, $3.75 shipping. Foreword by Martha A. Sandweiss. "Featuring Richard Rudisill's completely revised Directories of Photographers: Ah Annotated Bibliography." Order from: Carl Mautz Books; 228 Commercial St., No. 522; Nevada City, CA 95962.

Scharff, Virginia. Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement and the West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. $49.95 (cloth) ISBN: 052021212; $19.95 (paper) ISBN: 0520237773. Order from: University of California Press; 1445 Lower Ferry Rd.; Ewing, NJ 08618.

Yamane, Linda, ed. "A Gathering of Voices: The Native Peoples of the Central California Coast," Santa Cruz County History Journal, No. 5. Santa Cruz: The Museum of Art and History, 2002. $24.95 (paper) ISBN: 0949283115; ISSN: 1081681X. Order from: Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History; 705 Front St.; Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

Young, Jim. Plumas County: History of the Feather River Region. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003. $24.95 (paper) ISBN: 0738524093. Order from: Arcadia Publishing; 2 Cumberland Street; Charleston SC 29041.

The Checklist provides notice of publications that portray the diverse and exceptional nature of California. Readers and publishers who wish to call attention to recent works, including reprints, are requested to send the following bibliographical information to the Checklist editor: author, title, name and address of publisher, date of publication, price (including postage and handling), binding (cloth or paper), International Standard Book Number (ISBN), and order address. Mail to:

Charles N. Johnson, Checklist Editor

Ventura County Museum of History & Art

100 East Main Street Ventura, CA 93001 or email: library@vcmha.org.