Los Angeles: Biography of a CityJohn Walton Caughey, LaRee Caughey "Its intelligent combination of essays reveals much about Los Angeles which does not always find its way into socio-historical texts about the area. The editors' remarks preceding each essay expertly bind the book together. I suspect it will wind up as one of the more dog-eared volumes on my shelf."—Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles |
Contents
THE GABRIELINO AND THEIR HOME | 3 |
Pueblo 1847 William R Hutton Title page | 10 |
Coyote and the Water as told by the Gabrielino | 26 |
PASTORAL INTERLUDE | 79 |
AMERICAN TAKEOVER | 113 |
AN AMERICAN CITY EMERGES | 159 |
Second Street Cable Car | 193 |
Japanese Truck Garden at Palos Verdes William Graham | 312 |
Arroyo Seco Adam C Vroman | 347 |
Migrant Labor Camp at Ventura Boulevard and Moorpark | 353 |
ADJUSTING TO WAR AND TO PEACE | 357 |
Why It Happened Here Roger Daniels | 366 |
Los Angeles Child Being Sent to Concentration Camp | 371 |
MEGALOPOLIS | 397 |
CITY LIMITS OR NEW HORIZONS | 447 |
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