American Classics Facsimile Series II

[From Introduction] It was a time of war. The twin demons of fear and hate had put these people of Japanese descent behind barbed wire in an obscure part of Wyoming. Consisting of a one-square-mile enclosure of barbed wire surrounding approximately si . . .

Introduction: Charles A. Wetmore's report on the Mission Indians of Southern California .. To be an appropriate publication for the Northridge Facsimile Series. This reprint is supported by the Bibliographic Society of our University as an historical . . .

Introduction: This record book is 13 1/4" x 8" and is 144 pages in length, 101 pages of which have been used. Pages are ruled, with writing in ink of several colors. Various signatures appear at the bottoms of entries, usually those of the chairman an . . .

[From Introduction] We have chosen to call the manuscript from which this work came, California Impressions. It was written in 1886 by J.W. Morgan, an Englishman. Morgan left Liverpool in September by steamer, and, after landing in New York, came by t . . .

Now part of a 15,100-acre restoration project, the salt ponds of the southern San Francisco Bay have a long history of industrial use and management. Early developers of these lands in the late 1800s modified the marshy tidal margin of the bay to be p . . .