Free Download Kate Rogers, "The Zodiac Killer: Terror in California (Crime Scene Investigations)"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1534560858 | EPUB | pages: 112 | 6.3 mb
Provides an in-depth look at the investigation of the Zodiac killer who terrorized residents of California during the 1960s and 1970s.

Free Download Scenic Driving California's Pacific Coast: Including San Francisco, Monterey, Big Sur, and Redwood National Park by Stewart M. Green
English | June 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1493060589 | 296 pages | MOBI | 29 Mb
The best way toenjoy California's spectacular coastline is to drive it! Packed with information about charming seaside communities and featuring all new photographs, this beautiful four-color guidetakes youalong the 1,100-mile stretch of Highway 1. Whether you're looking for a short, one-day jaunt or an extended tour of the entire coastline, Scenic Routes & Byways Pacific Coast California shows you the best places in the area to eat, stay, shop, and play.

Free Download Moon California Camping: The Complete Guide to Tent and RV Camping (Travel Guide) by Tom Stienstra
English | June 14, 2022 | ISBN: 164049619X | 880 pages | MOBI | 20 Mb
20 million acres of forest, 1,200 miles of coastline, and countless wilderness areas: Your California camping adventure awaits! Find the perfect place to pitch your tent with Moon California Camping.

Free Download Sam McManis, "Crossing California: A Cultural Topography of a Land of Wonder and Weirdness"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1610353137 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 2.0 mb
Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California. He discovered that there is more than one California, but every different California is equally weird and wonderful. Worlds collide and commingle: the neo-hippies with the rednecked farmers; the urban sophisticates with the quirky desert dwellers; the Hollywood power brokers with the outsider artists. Brought together in a bouillabaisse of voices, Crossing California will make you see the state in an entirely new light.

Free Download David Lavender, "California: Land of New Beginnings"
English | 1987 | ISBN: 0803228740, 0803279248, 0060125241 | EPUB | pages: 468 | 1.6 mb
From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's history and growth have been both tumultuous and phenomenal. All the historical facts are here: the missions and the Indians, the struggles between the Mexicans and the Americans, the fabulous gold rushes, statehood in 1850, railroad wars, furious labor upheavals, the disastrous scandals and bankruptcies of the 1920s, and the recent gigantic tamperings with nature. David Lavender tells, with unusual clarity and grace, the story of a beautiful state's rise to giganticism. In an afterword to this Bison Book edition, he looks at California today.

Free Download Dead in Long Beach, California: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C6B2BSSW | 2024 | 6 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 365 MB
Author: Venita Blackburn
Narrator: Lynnette Freeman

Free Download Brian McGinty, Tom Perkins (Narrator), "Lincoln and California: The President, the War, and the Golden State"
English | ASIN: B0CSKSGJGQ | 2024 | M4B@64 kbps | ~07:14:00 | 216 MB
In Lincoln and California Brian McGinty explains the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and the Golden State, describing important events that took place in California and elsewhere during Lincoln's lifetime. He includes the histories of Lincoln's close friends and personal acquaintances who made history as they went to California, lived there, and helped to keep it part of the imperiled Union.
McGinty demonstrates that California was in large part responsible for beginning the Civil War, as the principal purpose of its conquest in the Mexican War was to acquire land into which the Southern states could extend their cotton-growing and slaveholding empire. The decision of California's first voters to exclude slavery from the state but to enact virulently racist legislation encouraged Southerners' hope that, if they established a separate republic, it would become an independent slave nation with the power to extend its territory to the Pacific coast of North America and into the Caribbean and Latin America. Lincoln's opposition to their plans unleashed the Civil War. As the struggle played out, the hopes of the proslavery Confederates were ultimately defeated because California played a vital role in helping Lincoln save the Union. Lincoln and California shines new light on an important state, a pivotal president, and a turning point in American history.

Free Download Cheryl McCormack, "Susanville (Images of America: California)"
English | 2008 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0738558435, 1531637604 | EPUB | 46,9 mb
Nestled in a high-desert valley in northeastern California, bordered by both lush evergreen forests and arid sagebrush, Susanville is a community of independent spirits. First a rugged trading post for Noble's Train wagon trains, in 1854, pioneer Isaac Roop wrought the first permanent settlement by allotting a large piece of his land for the city, which eventually would be named for his daughter Susan. Early settlers worked the surrounding ranches, farms, and mines, and the community began to thrive. Businesses sprang up, including general stores, saloons, stables, and hotels. Soon the hallmarks of domestic society, churches and schools, were established as well. At the beginning of the 20th century, a better water system was installed and a high school was built. As life adjusted to the advent of electricity, the telephone, and a new railroad, Susanville prospered, with the lumber industry at its core. Though the old mill's 5:00 whistle has since fallen silent, the city continues to welcome visitors with its stunning natural surroundings, charming historic downtown, and friendly people.

Free Download Lisbeth Haas, "Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936"
English | 1996 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0520207041, 0520083806 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mission and court archives, oral histories, Spanish language plays, census and tax records) to build a new picture of rural society and social change.

Free Download David Kulczyk, "California Fruits, Flakes & Nuts: True Tales of California Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps"
English | 2013 | pages: 188 | ISBN: 1610351940 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
A freewheeling catalog of misfits, eccentrics, creeps, criminals, and failed dreamers, this compendium profiles 45 bizarre personalities who exemplify the Golden State's well-deserved reputation for nonconformity. In the pages, Gold Rush pioneers are revealed as murderous madmen; Hollywood celebrities are shown to be drug-addled sex maniacs; early hippies are just 1950s weirdos; and even seemingly ordinary Californians have a talent for freakish, crazy, and criminal behavior. From frontier lunatic Grizzly Adams, whose head was one massive wound after multiple bear attacks, to ""I Love Lucy"" star William Frawley, a racist, misogynist, foul-mouthed drunk, and legendarily awful film director Ed Wood, ""California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts"" is a side-splitting look at the people who made California the strangest place on earth.