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NOTES FROM THE PUBLISHER

I’d like to tell you about an odd couple: Heyday, born in Berkeley in 1974 in the afterglow of the Free Speech Movement, and the California Historical Society, born more than a century before that in post–gold rush San Francisco.

Our intimate relationship began twenty years ago, when I walked into the Cal-ifornia Historical Society to run an idea past Michael McCone, then executive director of CHS. I had unearthed a manuscript by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, a white man who in the 1850s had spent his boyhood among the Choinumni Indi-ans of the southern San Joaquin Valley. He left behind an account of traditional Indian life that is intimate, detailed, nuanced, and unlike anything that I have ever seen. Would CHS like to copublish this book with Heyday?

Indian Summer came out in 1993, the first of many books we would copublish with CHS. Mike retired from CHS and joined Heyday’s board of directors in 2003, serving as chair. The fact that we are thriving creatively—indeed the fact that we still exist—is in no small measure due to Mike’s leadership and involve-ment.

When Anthea Hartig took over as executive director of CHS last year, our collaboration blossomed. Heyday now has a physical presence at CHS’s San Francisco museum and headquarters (678 Mission Street) in the form of a jointly managed bookstore, Ten Lions, which features nearly all our books. We’re developing more books and exhibitions together, hardly a month goes by without our cosponsoring an event, and if we bring to completion even half of what we’re talking about, California will never be the same.

I suppose we might seem at first glance to be an odd couple. But our differences stimulate. Real friendship and deep enjoyment characterize whatever we do. Look at Heyday’s website for an account of what we are up to, come to our events, browse in our bookstore, and I would like to ask all our friends to please join CHS as a member. They’re not just partners, they’re family.

For more information about our partnership with the California Historical Society, see page 31.

Over the years, our partnership with CHS

expanded. We’ve published a dozen books

together, cooperated on many exhibitions,

worked together on scores of cosponsored

events, puzzled over our evolving roles in

California cultural life, raised money together,

spent money together, called upon each other

for advice, leaned on each other for support,

worked for the common good, fought against

greed and stupidity, and (wonder of wonders!)

had unbelievable fun doing it.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORSGuy Lampard, ChairRichard D. BaumBarbara BouckeSteve CostaNik DehejiaPeter B. DunckelTheresa HarlanMarty KrasneyKatharine Livingston Michael McCone, Chair emeritusMichael TraynorSonia TorresLisa Van CleefPatricia Wakida

STAFFMalcolm Margolin, PublisherLindsie M. Bear, California Indian PublishingMariko Conner, Assistant to the Publisher/

Development AssociateMarilee Enge, Development and Publishing

PartnershipsLillian Fleer, Events and OutreachJeannine Gendar, EditorialDavid Isaacson, FinanceDiane Lee, ProductionRebecca LeGates, DesignNatalie Mulford, Marketing and PublicityAnna Pritt, OperationsLorraine Rath, DesignGayle Wattawa, Editorial and AcquisitionsGeorge Young, Publishing Consultant

FALL & WINTER 2012 INTERNSAlisha SavilleElizabeth SmithDaniel Wikey

Printing and Binding: Allen Press, Lawrence, KS

ABOUT HEYDAY“Our literary landscape [is] littered with casualties.…[Heyday is] one plucky Bay Area publisher [that] not only still stands but continues to innovate.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Any accurate inventory of California’s cultural treasures would have to include Heyday Books, which is precisely what a first-water regional press ought to be—and so few are.”—Los Angeles Times

Heyday is an independent, nonprofit publisher and unique cultural institu-tion. We promote widespread awareness and celebration of California’s many cultures, landscapes, and boundary-breaking ideas. Through our well-crafted books, public events, and innovative outreach programs we are building a vibrant community of readers, writers, and thinkers.

GETTING INVOLVEDLiterature is perhaps the most private of the arts; books begin in isolation in the mind of an author and end as a shared experience with the reader. What happens in between is what we do and celebrate as publishers. In addition to buying a book, here’s how you can get involved:

Spread the word. Like other independent and alternative media, Heyday depends on individuals to spread the word. If you like what Heyday does, please tell your friends, join us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, forward our newsletters, bring your friends to our events, and recommend that oth-ers read our books. Your enthusiasm helps deepen our impact.

Attend an event. From lectures and bookstore readings to nature hikes and informal gatherings, where there’s a place to talk about books, you’ll find Heyday. Bring your ideas and join in.

Become a member. As a member of Heyday’s Publishers Club, you will receive discounts on books, invitations to thought-provoking events and festive book-launch parties, regular updates about what’s happening in the California cultural scene, and a meaningful role in an enterprise that combines vision, intelligence, and creativity.

Make a donation. Every year, many people make donations to Heyday in addition to their membership fees. These generous contributions enable us to do significant work beyond what would otherwise be possible and they allow us to thrive as a nonprofit.

Become an intern. Interns are an integral part of our projects and have an exciting opportunity to learn firsthand about publishing.

For more information, please contact Mariko Conner, at (510) 549-3564, ext. 311, or [email protected].

THANK YOUIt takes the collective effort of many to create a thriving literary culture. We are thankful to all the thoughtful people we have the privilege to engage with. Cheers to our writers, artists, editors, storytellers, designers, printers, bookstores, critics, cultural organizations, readers, and book lovers everywhere!

We are especially grateful for the generous funding we’ve received for our publications and programs during the past year from foundations and hundreds of individual donors. Major supporters include:

Anonymous; Acorn Naturalists; Alliance for California Traditional Arts; Arkay Foundation; BayTree Fund; S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation; Berkeley Civic Arts Program and Civic Arts Commission; Buena Vista Rancheria/Jesse Flyingcloud Pope Foundation; Cal Humanities; California Civil Liberties Public Education Program; California Indian Heritage Center Foundation; California State Library; California State Parks Foundation; Keith Campbell Foundation; Candelaria Fund; Center for California Studies; The Christensen Fund; Community Futures Collective; Comp-ton Foundation; Creative Work Fund; The Durfee Foundation; Earth Island Institute; Eaton Kenyon Fund of the Sacramento Region Com-munity Foundation; Euclid Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation; Foothill Resources, Ltd.; Furthur Foundation; The Fred Gellert Family Foundation; Fulfillco; The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation; Walter and Elise Haas Fund; Historic Resources Group; G. Scott Hong Charitable Trust; Humboldt Area Foundation; James Irvine Foundation; Kendeda Fund; LEF Foundation; Thomas J. Long Foundation; Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant; Moore Family Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; National Wildlife Federation; Native Cultures Fund; The Nature Conservancy; Nightingale Family Foundation; Northern Califor-nia Water Association; Pacific Legacy, Inc.; The David and Lucile Packard Foundation; Patagonia, Inc.; PhotoWings; The San Francisco Founda-tion; San Manuel Band of Mission Indians; Savory Thymes; Sonoma Land Trust; Stone Soup Fresno; Swinerton Family Fund; Thendara Founda-tion; TomKat Charitable Trust; The Roger J. and Madeleine Traynor Foundation; Whole Systems Foundation; Wild by Nature, Inc.; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Dean Witter Foundation; The Work-in-Progress Fund of Tides Foundation; and Yocha Dehe Community Fund.

The James D. Houston Legacy Fund: Heyday has established a fund to support publication of works by emerging fiction and nonfiction writers who reflect Houston’s humane values, his thoughtful engagement with life, and his literary exploration of California. For more information, please contact Mariko Conner at (510) 549-3564, ext. 311, or [email protected], or visit www.heydaybooks.com/houstonaward.

For details about Heyday’s Publishers Club, see page 45.

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7 Saltscapes 9 A Naturalist’s Guide to the Santa Barbara Region 10 Literary Industries 11 Brother and the Dancer 13 Here Tomorrow 15 Vital Signs 17 Sacrament 18 Father Junípero’s Confessor 19 The Court That Tamed the West20 Spiders in Your Neighborhood 21 Tamalpais Walking 22 The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry

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Over the past few months I have been taking stock of the foundations of the Califor-nia Indian publishing and events programs at Heyday, what we now call the Berkeley Roundhouse. I’ve tried to get acquainted with the archives, the books, the magazine, and most importantly the people who come together to make it happen. I’ve traveled around the state talking with folks in as many Native communities as possible about what they are interested in, what work they are doing, what they hope for. I cannot claim to have an encyclopedic knowledge of any of this, but I have found that Native cultural revitalization in California is flourishing thanks to the tireless work of dedicated people. Heyday and News have been part of this movement for many years and I am thrilled to join in the ongoing work of supporting, amplifying, and celebrating Califor-nia’s Native voices.

In Northern California Native life, the roundhouse is set aside for gatherings, shar-ing knowledge, honoring tradition. It is a living space. This is the inspiration for the Berkeley Roundhouse. This is a living project. We will continue to publish excellent books and a quarterly magazine on and by California’s Native peoples. We will serve as a resource for educators, institutions, and interpreters—helping them understand and share accurate, responsible information. We will find new ways, in person and in new media, to stay connected and responsive to Native California communities. And we will continue to do this in the spirit of friendship, joy, and a deep admiration for California’s longest living cultures. It is my greatest hope that this circle of friendship continues to grow.

—Lindsie Bear, Director, Berkeley Roundhouse

The Berkeley Roundhouse

NEWS FROM NATIVE CALIFORNIAA quarterly magazine devoted to California’s indigenous people since 1987

“The first and only journal for California Indian peoples.” —Greg Sarris, chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria

“A remarkable publication. Its articles run an amazing gamut—from scholarly to gossipy, from lyrical to gritty.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Focusing on the arts, education, the law, culture, language, botany…[News] probably has the widest literacy range of any periodical in the Western Hemisphere.”

—Los Angeles Times

HOW TO ORDER:Subscriptions, single copies, and back issues can be purchased at www.newsfromnativecalifornia.com or go to www.heydaybooks.com and click on the “Magazine” tab.

Current issues: $5.95 each

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SALTSCAPESTHE KITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF CRIS BENTONForeword by Will Travis

December 2013Cloth, 978-1-59714-247-2, $50.00176 pages (9 x 12)Over 200 color photographsAppendix of resourcesPhotography

See www.heydaybooks.com for:Sample pagesAuthor appearances, events, and upcoming workshopsInformation on Cris Benton’s Hidden Ecologies project at the Exploratorium

Cris Benton is a retired professor of architecture and department chair at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was engaged in teaching and research in the Building Science Laboratory as well as a program of post-occupancy building case studies. His kite aerial photography in the South Bay began during a sabbatical year spent as artist in residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and it has continued under special use permits from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The resulting images documenting the salt ponds have been shown at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Exploratorium, and the Coyote Point Museum, as well as conferences and art galleries. Benton’s aerial images have been used by over one hundred nonprofit agencies.

Surprising and sublime

On approach to SFO, a passenger glancing out the window will see the vivid patchwork of the South Bay’s salt evaporation ponds. After a century of industrial salt production, over ten thousand acres of this once vast marshland are now being restored to their natural state. Using a kite to fly a radio-controlled camera to heights of up to three hundred feet, photographer Cris Benton brings this much-overlooked part of the San Francisco Bay into sharp focus, high-lighting one of the greatest landscape transformations underway in America.

With results as unexpected as they are alluring, Benton explores the “exuberant, otherworldly” South Bay salt ponds and marshes in various states of restoration. He reveals saturated colors, subtle tex-tures, and vivid patterns not discernible from the ground. We linger on the lacy elegance of salt mounds; the stark beauty of a rail line running through ripples of bay water; the softness of snowy plovers in flight. Among the most enchanting are images that could be mis-taken for Mark Rothko paintings, until closer examination reveals bulldozer tracks across muddy stretches of bay bottom.

Benton’s images allow us to slip our earthly bonds and see the world from new heights, his aerial views offering a fresh perspective on familiar landscapes. Surprising and sublime, Saltscapes can be enjoyed equally as a collection of art photography and a portrait of ecological transformation and resilience.

“The intimate views afforded by Cris’s kite photography wonderfully portray the essence of the landscape and convey both the beauty and the scale of the largest tidal wetland restora-tion project on the West Coast.”—John Bourgeois, executive project manager, South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project

“His mind’s eye twenty to two hundred feet above the ground, Cris brings an architect’s sense of design to his craft, and consummate skill as a classroom lecturer to explaining it.”—Brooks Leffler, former executive director, American Kite Association

“Bringing deep knowledge of the histories and ecologies of California landscapes to his work, Benton infuses his images with a profound sense of place, sweeping us to worlds of amazing beauty and textural detail.”—Jennifer Wolch, William W. Wurster Dean, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley


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A NATURALIST’S GUIDE TO THE SANTA BARBARA REGIONJoan Easton LentzPhotography by Stuart WilsonMaps and illustrations by Peter Gaede

October 2013Trade Paper, 978-1-59714-241-0, $35.00528 pages (6 x 9)Over 400 color photographs and illustrationsAppendices, species list, sample field trips, references, indexNature/Guidebook

See www.heydaybooks.com for:Sample pagesAuthor appearancesInformation on the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural HistoryOther California field guides

Joan Easton Lentz is an author, teacher, and research associate at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. For over thirty-five years, she has been a serious student of the natural history of the Santa Barbara region, concentrating on its bird life. Lentz has written three books, the most recent being Introduction to Birds of the Southern California Coast (University of California Press, 2006).

One of the richest biological hotspots on the planet

The Santa Barbara region is at the cusp of Northern and Southern California, where animals and plants from both areas mingle and create ecosystems of great diversity. In the first-ever comprehensive nature guide to the area, accomplished author, teacher, and Santa Barbara native Joan Easton Lentz shares her lifelong knowledge of this region renowned for its unique natural resources and legend-ary scenery. Taking readers on a journey from tidepools to moun-tain peaks and pinyon-juniper woodlands, Lentz combines lucid and evocative nature writing, including on-the-scene journal entries, with a rich array of photos and illustrations, creating a highly per-sonal and scientific handbook. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Santa Bar-bara Region at once deepens our understanding of the land and its array of inhabitants and inspires us to head outside.

“There are few more qualified to write about the natural history of the Santa Barbara region than Joan Lentz, and certainly none more passionate. This is a book to read and page through in the easy chair, and a wonderful guide to take with you into the field. It is a gift to all of us who treasure this marvelous country, and an invitation to all those setting out to discover it.”—Karl L. Hutterer, emeritus director, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

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BROTHER AND THE DANCERA NOVELKeenan Norris

November 2013Trade Paper, 978-1-59714-245-8, $15.00Cloth, 978-1-59714-244-1, $25.00256 pages (5.5 x 8)Fiction

See www.heydaybooks.com for:ExcerptAuthor appearancesAuthor websiteE-book availabilityInformation on the James D. Houston Award

Keenan Norris teaches English and African American literature and helps conduct the Affirm program at Evergreen Valley College. His work has appeared in the Santa Monica, Green Mountains, and Evans-ville reviews, Connotation Press, Inlandia: A Literary Journey through California’s Inland Empire, and BOOM: A Journal of California. He is also the editor of Scarecrow Press’s upcoming collection of critical essays, Street Lit. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

See excerpt, p. 38.

See also Masha’allah and Other Stories, p. 34.

Winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award

Keenan Norris’s first novel is a courageous, gritty coming-of-age tale about two young African Americans in the San Bernardino Valley—a story of exceptional power, lyricism, and depth. Erycha and Touissant live only a few miles apart in the city of Highland, but their worlds are starkly separated by the lines of class, violence, and history. In alternating chapters that touch and intertwine only briefly, Brother and the Dancer follows their adolescence and young adulthood on two sides of the city, the luminous San Bernardino Mountain range casting its hot shade over their separate tales in a deeply moving vision of black life in Southern California.

PRAISE for Brother and the Dancer:

“Read Keenan Norris, an important new American writer. His Brother and the Dancer delivers everything we want from a first novel: a story we’ve never read before, a world we’ve never quite known, a vision we’re unfamiliar with. And yet it gives us something more, too, and just as exciting: the prose of a mature artist, and an understand-ing of the human heart that would seem nearly impossible in a writer so young. I learned many things from this fine and daring book.”

—Andrew Winer, author of The Marriage Artist

“Using bold narrative strategies, Keenan Norris gives us a first novel that is at once sympathetic and unsettling. Norris does not barter with platitudes. His writing demands a sophisticated use of cultural literacy to discern psychological and spiritual patterns that compli-cate the lives of American youths. Brother and the Dancer is a refresh-ing signal that fiction in the twenty-first century can still carry the weight of moral imperatives as it mediates chaotic aspects of our heritage. It is most rewarding to savor Norris’s remarkable insights.”

—Jerry W. Ward Jr., coeditor of The Cambridge History of African American Literature

LITERARY INDUSTRIESCHASING A VANISHING WESTHubert Howe Bancroft An abridged edition by Kim BancroftForeword by Kevin StarrAfterword by Charles Faulhaber

January 2014Paper, with flaps, 978-1-59714-248-9, $18.00240 pages (5.5 x 8.5)20 black-and-white photographsHistory/Memoir

See www.heydaybooks.com for:Excerpt and sample pagesInformation on The Bancroft Library, University of California, BerkeleyE-book availability

Kim Bancroft is a longtime teacher turned editor and writer. She earned a B.A. in English from Stanford, an M.A. in English and a teaching credential from San Francisco State University, and a doctor-ate in education from UC Berkeley. She has taught at various high schools and community colleges in the Bay Area, at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico, and at Sacramento State. Kim has edited several books, including Ariel: A Memoir by Ariel Parkinson; The Morn-ing the Sun Went Down by Darryl Wilson; and Ruth’s Journey: A Survi-vor’s Memoir, by Ruth Glasberg Gold. She lives in Willits, California, in a redwood forest and enjoys the nouveau-Thoreau challenges and opportunities of life in a small cabin with a satellite dish on top. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Hubert Howe Bancroft.

Assembling the personal collection that became The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley

A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a “history factory,” he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents; hired scribes to copy material in private hands; employed interviewers to capture the memories of early Spanish and Mexican settlers; and published multiple volumes sold throughout the country by his subscription agents. In 1890 he published an eight-hundred-page autobiography, aptly entitled Lit-erary Industries.

Literary Industries sparkles with the exuberance of nineteenth-century California and introduces us to a man of great complexity and wit. Edited for the modern reader and yet relating the history of the West as it was taking place—and as it was being recorded—Kim Bancroft’s edition of Literary Industries is a joy to read.

From Literary Industries:

“It is a characteristic of some people that they are never satisfied except when they are a little miserable.”

“Men of genius usually are visionary dreamers; they are often as ingenuous as children, likewise as wayward and as petulant. No won-der women cannot endure them.”

“It is perhaps one of the severest trials of an author’s life, first coming in contact with a publisher.”


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HERE TOMORROW PRESERVING ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE, AND CALIFORNIA’S GOLDEN DREAMJ. K. Dineen; Foreword by John King

September 2013Cloth, 978-1-59714-236-6, $40.00256 pages (9 x 9)Over 50 color photographs Architecture

See www.heydaybooks.com for:Sample pages and excerptAuthor appearancesInformation on the California Preservation Foundation and AwardsOther architecture titles

J. K. Dineen writes about urban planning, architecture, and real estate for the San Francisco Business Times. He has worked as a staff writer at the San Francisco Examiner, New York Daily News, and a string of newspapers in his native Massachusetts including The Salem Evening News, The MetroWest Daily News, the Cambridge Chronicle, and the Watertown Press. He has freelanced for The New York Observer and Travel & Leisure. He was part of Teach For America’s inaugural class and taught sixth grade at P.S. 304 in Brooklyn, New York.

See also Cityscapes, p. 35.

Award-winning projects from the California Preservation

Foundation

Old buildings in our midst call to the imagination, evoking a time just out of reach. Each structure in Here Tomorrow holds a story of Cali-fornia’s rich past in its wainscoting, adobe brick, or Art Deco chan-delier. The Temple of Kwan Tai on the fog-wreathed Mendocino coast contains the history of a once-vibrant seaside Chinatown. A garden of honeysuckle, roses, and tulips once tended by prisoners flourishes on the dry and windy island of Alcatraz. Colorful mosa-ics, glasswork zodiacs, and historic murals grace the walls of the Los Angeles Public Library, a structure conceived as a great melding of cultures and lore that reflect the diverse spirit of California.

Such structures represent a significant cultural legacy, and as they deteriorate with age and the world around them changes, they also represent a significant economic and cultural challenge. For thirty years, the California Preservation Foundation has bestowed design awards on those who have excelled in restoration and creative reuse. From these awards, the Heyday editorial team selected fifty sites we feel best represent the multifaceted and complex art of restoration. They represent California in all its variety, its culture and commerce, geography, history, and creative style.

“Anyone interested in the preservation of California’s historic buildings needs to read Here Tomorrow, which contains important, even exciting, insights regarding utilization of profes-sional preservation practices in dealing with historic landmarks. Don’t miss the opportunity.”—Dr. Knox Mellon, California State Historic Preservation Officer, Emeritus


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VITAL SIGNSPoetry by Juan DelgadoPhotography by Thomas McGovern

October 2013Trade Paper, 978-1-59714-250-2, $18.95128 pages (8 x 8)50 color photographsPhotography/PoetryCopublished with the Inlandia Institute

See www.heydaybooks.com for:Sample images and poemsAuthor appearancesOther photography and art books in Heyday’s collection

Juan Delgado has published several books of poetry, El Campo, A Rush of Hands, and Green Web, which received the Contemporary Poetry Series Award and was published by the University of Georgia Press. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine, where he was also a Regent’s Fellow. He is a professor of English and director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at California State University, San Bernardino.

Thomas McGovern is a photographer, writer, and educator, and the author of Bearing Witness (to AIDS), Amazing Grace, and Hard Boys + Bad Girls. His photographs are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Museum of the City of New York; and the New York Historical Society, among others. His art reviews and features have appeared in Afterimage, Artweek, Art Issues, and Art Papers and in 2011 he founded the photography publication Dotphotozine. He is a professor of art at California State University, San Bernardino.

Portraits and poems from a shifting landscape

The product of six years of reflection and documentation, Vital Signs takes us on a walk through one of California’s largest cities: San Ber-nardino—generally presented in the media as a center of urban blight and high crime. In this passionate collaboration, poet Juan Delgado and photographer Thomas McGovern celebrate the working-class Latino communities of the Inland Empire and the intensity of their stories. Pairing Delgado’s piercing poems with McGovern’s photos of hand-painted signs and murals, Vital Signs preserves the narrative and visual culture of the urban landscape and reveals a community rich in emotion and vernacular art.

PRAISE for Vital Signs:

“Delgado and McGovern descend into the frayed realms of San Ber-nardino, meditative as Zen masters—there are no forced pronounce-ments, no fancy camera angling. Everything is face to face, face to wall—awake—in this ‘pilgrimage of lip-stained Styrofoam cups’ and a ‘coyote skull whistling.’ From the painted heart, these signs are vital to our lives. A tour de force x 2.”—Juan Felipe Herrera, California Poet Laureate

“In Vital Signs, the artists—proven professionals in their individual and respective forms of expression—unite to create a very powerful synergy of images and words that comprehensively document the powerful tides of social, economic, and cultural changes occurring in the Inland Empire.”—Daniel Foster, current board chair, Arts Con-nection, the Arts Council of San Bernardino County

We are a prong-stubborn people,

dirty cheeked, and in spring

the lemon-yellow flowers

of our goatheads bloom.

“Thomas McGovern has a sharp and tender eye for the colorful handmade advertisements for restaurants, body shops, beauty salons and other establishments in the small town centers of the Inland Empire.”—Sandra Phillips, senior curator of photography, SFMOMA

“Juan Delgado treats us to a journey through nostalgic neighborhoods, often with sudden imagery that serves to instruct, enlighten and entertain.”—Ernest Siva, author of Voices of the Flute and president of the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center


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SACRAMENTHOMAGE TO A RIVERPhotographs by Geoff FrickerText by Rebecca LawtonForeword by Stacy Cepello

November 2013Cloth, 978-1-59714-243-4, $45.00160 pages (11 x 11)Over 100 black-and-white photographsPhotography/Nature

See www.heydaybooks.com for:Excerpt and sample pagesAuthor appearances

Geoff Fricker’s photographs are housed in the permanent collections of a diverse set of museums across the United States, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Crocker Art Museum, the Library of Congress, and other cultural institutions in California, Hawaii, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas. He has received numerous awards and grants to document wa-tersheds. He holds an M.F.A. in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Geoff lives with his wife, Sandee, on the banks of Butte Creek, a major salmon tributary of the Sacramento River. Rebecca Lawton was one of the first woman river guides on the Colorado in Grand Canyon as well as other rivers in the West. Since 1974 she has teamed with geomorphologists, paleontologists, and ge-ographers to study the movement of silt, clay, sand, fossils, and other sedimentary particles in streams. Rebecca’s essay collection Reading Water: Lessons from the River was a San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller. She currently serves on the board of directors for Friends of the River and lives on Pequeño Creek in Sonoma Valley.

The soul of California’s largest river

“To fall in love with a wild river is to be changed forever, heart and soul. To fall for a river in California is to live with the scars and ghosts of loss.”

In Sacrament: Homage to a River, Geoff Fricker’s atmospheric pho-tographs reveal the geology, salmon runs, fluvial morphology, and human impact of the Sacramento River. In dreamlike black and white, the river takes on mythic proportions, in both its wild eco-systems and its human-made influences. Interwoven with Fricker’s images are Rebecca Lawton’s eloquent descriptions of the beauty of the river and the issues that currently surround it. Each page an expression of the authors’ fascination with and care for “the Sac,” Sacrament is both an emotive exhibition of the wonder of California’s largest waterway and a cautionary tale of its continued degradation.

PRAISE for Sacrament:

“Geoff Fricker shows us the Sacramento River in a way that nobody has ever done, and Rebecca Lawton eloquently urges us to take a view that is at once practical and reverent. The great river of Califor-nia is honored by this fine book.”

—Tim Palmer, author of Rivers of California

“Separately, the pictures and text draw us in. Sacrament is both intellectually challenging and visually seductive. Experienced together, Geoff Fricker’s beautiful and sometimes disturb-ing photographs and Lawton’s eloquent scientific prose provide a portrait of the Sacramento River that shows both how it has been abused and how it can be healed.”—Mary D. Nichols, former Secretary of Natural Resources, State of California



FATHER JUNÍPERO’S CONFESSORA NOVELNick Taylor

September 2013Trade Paper, 978-1-59714-261-8, $16.00288 pages (5.5 x 8)Fiction

See www.heydaybooks.com for:E-book availabilityExcerptVideos of author readings

Nick Taylor’s debut novel, The Disagreement (Simon & Schuster), won the 2009 Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. A graduate of the M.F.A. program at the University of Virginia, Taylor is currently an assistant professor of English and comparative literature at San Jose State University.

Led by the zealous Fray Junípero Serra to the fringes of the Spanish Empire in the mid-1700s, Franciscan missionaries Francisco Palóu and Juan Crespí are as fervid as their master about the opportunity posed by Alta California: to gloriously swell the kingdom of God through conversion—consensual or forced—of the native people. As Crespí and our sensitive but bitterly envious narrator, Palóu, vie for Serra’s fickle favor, a chain of their newly established missions creeps north up the fog-enshrouded coast from Mexico. A master stylist and a meticulous researcher, Nick Taylor vividly captures the atmo-sphere of early California as he dramatizes the politics of the era: the horrifying and tragic gaps in understanding between priests and natives; the vicious power plays between crown and church; and the fervor, ambition, and desperation that fueled European settlement of the region. This novel’s publication coincides with the celebration of the 300th anniversary of Junípero Serra’s birth.

PRAISE for Nick Taylor’s The Disagreement:

“This wonderfully nuanced story of human strengths and foibles is not your typical retelling of Civil War–era medicine, ineffective as it was, but rather a sensitive look at a young man’s accelerated journey to adulthood…In his debut, Taylor captures the manners, mores and language of the era, sweeping the reader back in time.”

—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“A remarkable novel…the characters are vivid, the dialogue real and the story is compelling and moving.”—The Daily American

“The Disagreement is powerfully entertaining and moving, and Tay-lor captures the period nicely without burdening readers with showy displays of his hard-earned research.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

A novel of Mission-era piety and fanaticism

Decisions that shaped history

THE COURT THAT TAMED THE WESTFROM THE GOLD RUSH TO THE TECH BOOMRichard Cahan, Pia Hinckle, and Jessica Royer OckenAppendix by John BriscoeForeword by William Alsup

December 2013Cloth, 978-1-59714-246-5, $35.00544 pages (6 x 9)Over 100 historical drawings and photographs, indexHistory/Law

See www.heydaybooks.com for:Excerpt and sample pagesInformation on the US Northern District Historical SocietyE-book availability

Richard Cahan is the author of twelve books including an acclaimed history of the federal court in Chicago, A Court That Shaped America. He served as the picture editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and is cur-rently an independent scholar at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Pia Hinckle is a San Francisco-based writer and editor. She is publisher of The FruitGuys Almanac, an online healthy living magazine. She has written for Newsweek, the San Francisco Examiner, Columbia Journal-ism Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Jessica Royer Ocken is a writer and editor based in Chicago. She has written for the Chicago Tribune and Midwest Home Chicago, and is working on a series of stories about The Children’s Place, an organiza-tion that supports children and families affected by HIV/AIDS.

See excerpt, p. 40.

See also Courthouses of California: An Illustrated History, p. 31.

From the gold rush to the Internet boom, the US District Court for the Northern District of California has played a major role in how business is done and life is lived on the Pacific Coast. When Califor-nia was first admitted to the Union, pioneers were busy prospecting for new fortunes, building towns and cities—and suing each other. San Francisco became the epicenter of a litigious new world being cobbled together from gold dust and sand dunes. Its federal court set precedents, from deciding the fate of Mexican land grants and shanghaied sailors to civil rights for Chinese immigrants. Through the era of Prohibition and the labor movement to World War II and the tumultuous sixties and seventies, the court’s historic rulings have defined the Bay Area’s geography, culture, and commerce.

Sponsored by the Northern District Court’s Historical Society and told by veteran journalists, The Court That Tamed the West presents the region’s history through a new lens, offering insight along with great storytelling.

“The judges of the Northern District court literally tamed Cali-fornia’s Wild West, bringing order to the chaos of land allocation, shipping disputes, and immigration hysteria.”—From The Court That Tamed the West



Get caught in a web of arachnid enchantment

SPIDERS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODA FIELD GUIDE TO YOUR LOCAL SPIDER FRIENDSPatrick Stadille

September 2013Saddle stitched, 978-1-59714-260-1, $5.9532 pages (5 x 6.75)Over 70 color photographs and drawingsNature

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Pat Stadille, science teacher and San Francisco Giants fan, is a yard saler and ukulele player when not out looking for spiders, insects, and other interesting creatures.

Spiders!

Scary? Maybe. Cool? Definitely.

Author Pat Stadille used to be terribly afraid of these eight-legged daddies, until he started learning more about them. Now spiders are his best friends! We have a feeling you’re going to feel the same way, once you hear about their silky skills, hunting habits, and generally shy and gentle nature. Learn about jumpers, wolf spiders, tarantulas, the “bird turd spider,” and, of course, the black widow!

Spiders in Your Neighborhood features detailed drawings and photos of the critters you’ll find, and sections on types of webs, how and where to discover spiders, spider anatomy, common relatives…even a spidey quiz to test your creepy crawly knowledge. So, grab a flashlight and your sleuthing kit and join Pat “Spiderman” Stadille on a journey around your backyard that will leave you spinning with excitement.

PRAISE for Spiders in Your Neighborhood:

“Amazing! Fascinating! A triumph!”—Pat’s Mother

“Wonderful bedtime reading!”—Local Psychotherapist

“Stadille has certainly spun a tangled web in this venomous thriller!”—Someone Important

TAMALPAIS WALKINGPOETRY, HISTORY, AND PRINTSTom Killion and Gary Snyder

September 2013Cloth, 978-1-59714-097-3. $50.00Trade Paper, 978-1-59714-259-5, $25.00160 pages (11.5 x 9)72 woodcuts in color and black-and-whiteArt/Poetry

See www.heydaybooks.com for:Sample pagesAuthor appearances

Woodcut and letterpress artist Tom Killion grew up in Marin County, California, on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. He is the founder of The Quail Press and his extensively illustrated books include 28 Views of Mount Tamalpais, The Coast of California, and The High Sierra of California, also with Gary Snyder. Gary Snyder is a poet, author, scholar, cultural critic, and profes-sor emeritus of the University of California at Davis. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His Turtle Island won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975 and in 2008 he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement.

See also The High Sierra of California, p. 36.

Poet Gary Snyder has been hiking on Mount Tamalpais since 1949. Artist Tom Killion was born and raised on its slopes. Each a master of his craft, together they lead us along mountain trails into a world both intimately known and uniquely inspiring. “Mount Tamalpais must have dreamed these two fine artists as a means of affording itself suitable honors,” comments actor/writer Peter Coyote.

PRAISE for Tamalpais Walking:

2010 NCIBA Book of the Year Award Winner

“Tamalpais Walking…is a joy to hold and behold.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“The large and gorgeous coffee-table book should claim a promi-nent spot…anywhere those who have hiked, biked, and loved the mountain might be found.”—Pacific Sun

“A lively and eminently readable volume combining natural history, the social history of urban and suburban recreation, and the liter-ary history of the Beats with a generous dollop of environmental and spiritual consciousness.”—Bloomsbury Review

“Snyder is Tamalpais’s greatest poet, and his essay recalling three cir-cumambulatory hikes on the mountain is a highlight of the book…and multiblock color prints by Killion pay homage both to Tamalpais and the Japanese masters of ukiyo-e, who perfected the complicated technique.”—Publishers Weekly

“A sizable book of poetry and art about Marin’s most visible land-mark. Little about the mountain is left unsaid.”—Marin Independent Journal

Now in paperback: seventy-two views of

Mt. Tamalpais


22 NEW RELEASES


24 Heyday’s Top (Baker’s) Dozen Bestsellers25 Nature27 Children28 Native American30 History32 Ethnic Studies33 Literature and Poetry 35 Art, Photography, and Architecture36 Education and Activism

BacklistTHE FINE ART OF CALIFORNIA INDIAN BASKETRYBrian Bibby

September 2013Trade Paper, 978-1-59714-249-6, $24.95128 pages (8.5 x 11)80 color photographs and 40 black and white photographs, maps, and illustrationsArt/Native American

See www.heydaybooks.com for:Sample pagesOther titles by Brian BibbyHeyday’s collection of Indian basketry books

For more than forty years, Brian Bibby has been involved with Native communities, families, and individuals, preserving and documenting various cultural art forms, languages, and oral histories. His other books include Essential Art: Native Basketry from the California Indian Heritage Center; Deeper Than Gold: A Guide to Indian Life in the Sierra Foothills; and Precious Cargo: California Indian Cradle Baskets and Childbirth Traditions.

See also Essential Art, p. 28.

An updated edition of the basketry classic

After a search through private collections and public museums throughout the country, over sixty stunning examples of California Indian basketry were assembled for this book—some almost two hundred years old, some made within the last few decades. Com-menting upon each basket are native basket weavers, California Indian artists in other media, and scholars. Together they provide exciting and intimate insights into this world of subtle yet intense beauty.

For thousands of years California Indians have been making baskets, often for the most practical reasons—for use as cradles, cooking and serving vessels, winnowing trays, and dozens of other necessary functions. Over the centuries these baskets have evolved artisti-cally as well, and many people now consider them to be among the world’s most beautiful, sophisticated, and cherished art objects.

PRAISE for The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry:

“Bibby reveals the beauty, intricacy and tactile energy of this utilitar-ian art form. Each basket is given affectionate interpretation…with brilliantly concise remarks.”

—San Francisco Chronicle


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Heyday’s Top (Baker’s) Dozen Bestsellers

1. THE LAWS FIELD GUIDE TO THE SIERRA NEVADA John Muir Laws, 978-1-59714-052-2, $24.95

2. A CALIFORNIAN’S GUIDE TO THE TREES AMONG US Matt Ritter, 978-1-59714-147-5, $18.95

3. THE LAWS GUIDE TO DRAWING BIRDS John Muir Laws, 978-1-59714-195-6, $24.95

4. ESSENTIAL MUIR Edited by Fred White, 978-1-59714-027-0, $12.95

5. ALL OF US OR NONE Lincoln Cushing, 978-1-59714-185-7, $25.00

6. SIERRA BIRDS: A HIKER’S GUIDE John Muir Laws, 978-1-890771-78-2, $9.95

7. ROOM TO BREATHE Edited by Kristi Britt, 978-1-59714-199-4, $24.95

8. ECOTOPIA Ernest Callenbach, 978-0-9604320-1-1, $13.95

9. NEW CALIFORNIA WRITING 2013 Edited by Gayle Wattawa, 978-1-59714-227-4, $16.95

10. THE OHLONE WAY Malcolm Margolin, 978-0-930588-01-4, $16.95

11. CITYSCAPES John King, 978-1-59714-154-3, $14.95

12. THE HARVEST GYPSIES John Steinbeck, 978-1-890771-61-4, $9.95

13. AESOP IN CALIFORNIA Doug Hansen, 978-1-59714-235-9, $16.95

“The world needs more of this—this kind of sus-tained, informed, deep gee-whizdom.”

—Washington Post

THE LAWS POCKET GUIDE SET: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREABOX SET, 978-1-59714-120-8, $21.95

INDIVIDUAL FOLDOUT GUIDES:

At the beach and on the bay

978-1-59714-121-5, $5.95

Near creeks, rivers, and ponds

978-1-59714-122-2, $5.95

On grassy hills and in fields

978-1-59714-123-9, $5.95

Among the oaks and pines

978-1-59714-124-6, $5.95

The field guides ofJOHN MUIR LAWS

SIERRA BIRDS: A HIKER’S GUIDEPAPER, 978-1-890771-78-2, $9.95

THE LAWS FIELD GUIDE TO THE SIERRA NEVADAPAPER, 978-1-59714-052-2, $24.95

THE LAWS GUIDE TO DRAWING BIRDSPAPER, 978-1-59714-195-6, $24.95 E-BOOK AVAILABLE


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NatureBACKYARD BIRDS OF THE INLAND EMPIRESheila N. Kee

PAPER, 978-1-59714-132-1, $14.95

BIRDS OF NAPA COUNTYHermann Heinzel

PAPER, 978-1-59714-030-0, $12.95

A CALIFORNIA BESTIARYRebecca Solnit and Mona Caron

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-125-3, $12.95

CALIFORNIA GLACIERSTim Palmer

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-174-1, $29.95

A CALIFORNIAN’S GUIDE TO THE TREES AMONG US Matt Ritter

PAPER, 978-1-59714-147-5, $18.95 E-BOOK AVAILABLE

A COAST TO EXPLORE: COASTAL GEOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIAMiles O. Hayes and Jacqueline Michel

Illustrated by Joseph M. Holmes

PAPER, 978-0-9816618-1-0, $29.95

FLORA OF THE SANTA ANA RIVER AND ENVIRONS: WITH REFERENCES TO WORLD BOTANY, NEW EDITIONOscar F. Clarke, Greg Ballmer, Danielle Svehla, and Arlee Montalvo

PAPER, 978-1-59714-050-8, $29.95

MAGPIES AND MAYFLIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO PLANTS AND ANIMALS OF THE CENTRAL VALLEY AND SIERRA FOOTHILLSDerek Madden, Ken Charters, and Cathy Snyder

PAPER, 978-1-59714-003-4, $16.95

THE RACCOON NEXT DOOR: GETTING ALONG WITH URBAN WILDLIFEGary Bogue; Illustrated by Chuck Todd

PAPER, 978-1-890771-71-3, $16.95

A RARE BOTANICAL LEGACY: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF RUBY AND ARTHUR VAN DEVENTERWith an essay by David Rains Wallace

Edited by Rick Bennett and Susan Calla

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-116-1, $35.00

RISE OF THE RANGES OF LIGHT: LANDSCAPES AND CHANGE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA David Scott Gilligan

PAPER, 978-1-59714-151-2, $18.95

ROOM TO BREATHE: THE WILD HEART OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULAEdited by Kristi Britt, Foreword by Ken Fisher, Preface by Steve Abbors

PAPER, 978-1-59714-199-4, $24.95

A STATE OF CHANGE: FORGOTTEN LANDSCAPES OF CALIFORNIALaura Cunningham

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-136-9, $50.00

THE TREES OF GOLDEN GATE PARK AND SAN FRANCISCO

Elizabeth McClintock Edited and arranged by Richard G. Turner, Jr.

PAPER, 978-1-890771-28-7, $18.95

WALKING THE FLATLANDS: THE RURAL LANDSCAPE OF THE LOWER SACRAMENTO VALLEYMike Madison

PAPER, 978-1-890771-84-3, $14.95

THE WILDNESS WITHIN: REMEMBERING DAVID BROWERKenneth Brower

PAPER, 978-1-59714-186-4, $20.00

E-BOOK AVAILABLE

Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American MistakeKenneth Brower

PAPER, 978-1-59714-228-1, $24.95

Award-winning nature writer Kenneth Brower explores the pitched battle over this environmental tragedy and envisions the wild future of a drained Hetch Hetchy landscape alongside the imaginings of A State of Change artist Laura Cunningham.

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ChildrenBLUE JAY GIRL Sylvia Ross

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-127-7, $12.95

DISCOVERING NATURE’S ALPHABETKrystina Castella and Brian Boyl

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-021-8, $15.95

HUMPHREY THE WAYWARD WHALEErnest Callenbach and Christine Leefeldt

PAPER, 978-0-930588-23-6, $4.95

JOURNEY TO TOPAZYoshiko Uchida

Illustrated by Donald Carrick

PAPER, 978-1-890771-91-1, $9.95

KODOKUWilliam Emery; Illustrated by Hanae Rivera

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-173-4, $16.95

LION SINGERSylvia Ross

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-009-6, $12.95

MANY WORLDS:NATIVE LIFE ALONG THE ANZA TRAILText by Katherine Brumage

Illustrations by Mona Caron

SADDLE STITCHED, 978-1-59714-167-3, $7.95

MOTHER GOOSE IN CALIFORNIAConceived and illustrated by Doug Hansen

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-101-7, $16.95

PEACE IS A FOUR-LETTER WORDJanet Nichols Lynch

PAPER, 978-1-59714-014-0, $9.95

RIVER OF WORDS: IMAGES AND POETRY IN PRAISE OF WATEREdited by Pamela Michael

PAPER, 978-1-890771-65-2, $12.95

Aesop in CaliforniaDoug Hansen

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-235-9, $16.95

“An imaginative and creative reworking in text and art—a gift not only for Californians, but for others far beyond its borders…This affectionate, glowing

collection will be hard to resist.”—Kirkus Reviews

SAMURAI OF GOLD HILLYoshiko Uchida; Illustrated by Ati Forberg

PAPER, 978-1-59714-015-7, $8.95

STICKEENJohn Muir Illustrated by Carl Dennis Buell

PAPER, 978-0-930588-48-9, $7.95

THERE’S A HUMMINGBIRD IN MY BACKYARDGary Bogue

Illustrated by Chuck Todd

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-131-4, $15.95

THERE’S AN OPOSSUM IN MY BACKYARDGary Bogue

Illustrated by Chuck Todd

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-059-1, $15.95


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INDIAN SUMMER: TRADITIONAL LIFE AMONG THE CHOINUMNE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA’S SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Thomas Jefferson Mayfield

PAPER, 978-1-59714-035-5, $13.95

LIFE AMONGST THE MODOCS: UNWRITTEN HISTORYJoaquin Miller

PAPER, 978-0-930588-79-3, $18.95

THE MAIDU INDIAN MYTHS AND STORIES OF HANC’IBYJIM Edited and translated by William Shipley

PAPER, 978-0-930588-52-6, $12.95

THE MORNING THE SUN WENT DOWNDarryl Babe Wilson

PAPER, 978-0-930588-81-6, $13.95

O, MY ANCESTOR: RECOGNITION AND RENEWAL FOR THE GABRIELINO-TONGVA PEOPLE OF THE LOS ANGELES AREAClaudia Jurmain and William McCawley Foreword by Kevin Starr

PAPER, 978-1-59714-115-4, $21.95

THE OHLONE WAY: INDIAN LIFE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO–MONTEREY BAY AREAMalcolm Margolin

PAPER, 978-0-930588-01-4, $16.95

E-BOOK AVAILABLE

PANAMINT SHOSHONE BASKETRY: AN AMERICAN ART FORMEva Slater

PAPER, 978-1-890771-89-8, $25.00

REMEMBER YOUR RELATIONS: THE ELSIE ALLEN BASKETS, FAMILY AND FRIENDSSuzanne Abel-Vidor, Dot Brovarney, and Susan Billy

PAPER, 978-0-930588-80-9, $20.00

SEAWEED, SALMON, AND MANZANITA CIDER: A CALIFORNIA INDIAN FEASTMargaret Dubin and Sara-Larus Tolley Foreword by Kathleen Rose Smith

PAPER, 978-1-59714-078-2, $21.95

SPRING SALMON, HURRY TO ME!: THE SEASONS OF NATIVE CALIFORNIAEdited by Margaret Dubin and Kim Hogeland

PAPER, 978-1-59714-079-9, $16.95

STRAIGHT WITH THE MEDICINE: NARRATIVES OF WASHOE FOLLOWERS OF THE TIPI WAY Warren L. d’Azevedo

PAPER, 978-1-59714-029-4, $12.95

THE WAY WE LIVED: CALIFORNIA INDIAN STORIES, SONGS AND REMINISCENCESEdited by Malcolm Margolin

PAPER, 978-0-930588-55-7, $16.95

Native AmericanADOPTED BY INDIANS: A TRUE STORYThomas Jefferson Mayfield

PAPER, 978-0-930588-93-9, $10.95

BAD INDIANS: A TRIBAL MEMOIRDeborah A. Miranda


CHIEF MARIN: LEADER, REBEL, AND LEGENDBetty Goerke

PAPER, 978-1-59714-053-9, $21.95

DEEPER THAN GOLD: A GUIDE TO INDIAN LIFE IN THE SIERRA FOOTHILLSBrian Bibby; Photographs by Dugan Aguilar

PAPER, 978-0-930588-96-0, $18.95

DREAM SONGS AND CEREMONY: REFLECTIONS ON TRADITIONAL CALIFORNIA INDIAN DANCEFrank LaPena

CLOTH, 978-1-890771-79-9, $25.00

ESSENTIAL ART: NATIVE BASKETRY FROM THE CALIFORNIA INDIAN HERITAGE CENTERBrian Bibby

PAPER, 978-1-59714-169-7, $24.95

FAST CARS AND FRYBREAD: REPORTS FROM THE REZGordon Johnson

PAPER, 978-1-59714-066-9, $12.95

FIRST FAMILIES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA INDIANSL. Frank and Kim Hogeland

PAPER, 978-1-59714-013-3, $27.50

FLUTES OF FIRE: ESSAYS ON CALIFORNIA INDIAN LANGUAGESLeanne Hinton

PAPER, 978-0-930588-62-5, $18.00

GRASS GAMES AND MOON RACES: CALIFORNIA INDIAN GAMES AND TOYSJeannine Gendar

PAPER, 978-0-930588-56-4, $14.95

GRAVE MATTERS: EXCAVATING CALIFORNIA’S BURIED PASTTony Platt

PAPER, 978-1-59714-162-8, $18.95

Lela Rhoades, Pit River WomanAs told to Molly Curtis; Foreword by Darryl Babe Wilson

PAPER, 978-1-59714-205-2, $18.95, E-BOOK AVAILABLE

As told to Molly Curtis in the 1970s, Lela Rhoades’s memoir is a story of transition for the Achumawi people and for Native California in general. Through recollections, old techniques, and legends, Rhoades walks the line between tradition and change.

Come, sit down at her feet, and listen to the strength and beauty of her world.

Scrape the Willow until It Sings: The Words and Work of Basket Maker Julia Parker

Deborah Valoma

TRADE PAPER, 978-1-59714-226-7, $35.00

A prolific artist, teacher, and storyteller, Julia Parker, Coast Miwok–Kashaya Pomo basket maker, carries the stories of baskets in her hands. This collection

of her reminiscences interweaves spoken memoir with textile artist and scholar Deborah Valoma’s essays on the historical and philosophical implications of

basketry from a non-Native perspective.

It Will Live Forever: Traditional Yosemite Indian Acorn Preparation

Beverly R. Ortiz, as told by Julia F. Parker

PAPER, 978-0-930588-45-8, $14.95

For centuries, the Yosemite Indians have been gathering and cooking acorns in a highly evolved and elegant process. Focusing on Julia Parker (Coast Miwok–Kashaya Pomo), It

Will Live Forever remains the only source of intimate descriptions of one of the most vital aspects of traditional California Indian life. Over 10,000 copies sold.


BACKLIST • HISTORY 3130 BACKLIST • HISTORY

History

THE ANZA TRAIL AND THE SETTLING OF CALIFORNIAVladimir Guerrero

PAPER, 978-1-59714-026-3, $16.95

ARCHY LEE: A CALIFORNIA FUGITIVE SLAVE CASERudolph M. Lapp

PAPER, 978-1-59714-080-5, $12.95

BEYOND WORDS: 200 YEARS OF ILLUSTRATED DIARIESSusan Snyder

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-164-2, $45.00

CALIFORNIA: A STUDY OF AMERICAN CHARACTERJosiah Royce Foreword by Ronald A. Wells

PAPER, 978-1-890771-52-2, $21.95

CHILDREN OF MANZANAREdited by Heather C. Lindquist

PAPER, 978-1-59714-160-4, $17.95

DISCOVERING EARLY CALIFORNIA AFRO-LATINO PRESENCEDamany M. Fisher

PAMPHLET, 978-1-59714-145-1, $5.00

ELDORADO: ADVENTURES IN THE PATH OF EMPIREBayard Taylor; Foreword by James D. Houston

PAPER, 978-1-890771-36-2, $18.95

FOOL’S PARADISE: A CAREY MCWILLIAMS READERIntroduction by Gray Brechin Foreword by Wilson Carey McWilliams

PAPER, 978-1-890771-41-6, $18.95

GENERAL VALLEJO AND THE ADVENT OF THE AMERICANSAlan Rosenus

PAPER, 978-1-890771-21-8, $18.95

THE HARVEST GYPSIES: ON THE ROAD TO THE GRAPES OF WRATHJohn Steinbeck; Introduction by Charles Wollenberg

PAPER, 978-1-890771-61-4, $9.95

JEWISH LIFE IN THE AMERICAN WESTEdited by Ava F. Kahn

PAPER, 978-1-890771-77-5, $22.50

LANDS OF PROMISE AND DESPAIR: CHRONICLES OF EARLY CALIFORNIA, 1535–1846Edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

PAPER, 978-1-890771-48-5, $24.95

LIFE IN A CALIFORNIA MISSION: MONTEREY IN 1786Jean François de La Pérouse

PAPER, 978-0-930588-39-7, $10.95

MAKING HOME FROM WAR: STORIES OF JAPANESE AMERICAN EXILE AND RESETTLEMENT Edited by Brian Komei Dempster PAPER, 978-1-59714-142-0, $18.95

MOUNTAINS AND MOLEHILLSFrank Marryat

PAPER, 978-1-59714-100-0, $16.95

THE PORT CHICAGO MUTINY: THE STORY OF THE LARGEST MASS MUTINY TRIAL IN U.S. NAVAL HISTORYRobert L. Allen

PAPER, 978-1-59714-028-7, $16.95

RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS: EVER CHANGING, ALWAYS THE SAME Claudia Jurmain, David Lavender, and Larry L. Meyer; Foreword by Kevin Starr

PAPER, 978-1-59714-148-2, $35.00

THE SHIRLEY LETTERS: FROM THE CALIFORNIA MINES, 1851–1852Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe Edited with an introduction by Marlene Smith-Baranzini

PAPER, 978-1-890771-00-3, $13.95

SO FAR FROM HOME: RUSSIANS IN EARLY CALIFORNIAEdited by Glenn J. Farris

PAPER, 978-1-59714-184-0, $21.95

TAHOE BENEATH THE SURFACEScott Lankford

PAPER, 978-1-59714-139-0, $16.95

TESTIMONIOS: EARLY CALIFORNIA THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN, 1815–1848Translated with an Introduction and commentary by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz

PAPER, 978-1-59714-033-1, $22.95

UNA STORIA SEGRETA: THE SECRET HISTORY OF ITALIAN AMERICAN EVACUATION AND INTERNMENT DURING WORLD WAR IIEdited by Lawrence DiStasi

PAPER, 978-1-890771-40-9, $21.95

WHEREVER THERE’S A FIGHT: HOW RUNAWAY SLAVES, SUFFRAGISTS, IMMIGRANTS, STRIKERS, AND POETS SHAPED CIVIL LIBERTIES IN CALIFORNIA Elaine Elinson and Stan YogiPAPER, 978-1-59714-114-7, $24.95

A YANKEE IN MEXICAN CALIFORNIA, 1834–1836Richard Henry Dana Jr.; Foreword by John Seibert FarnsworthPAPER, 978-1-59714-119-2, $9.95

Port City: The History and Transformation of the Port of San Francisco, 1848–2010Michael R. Corbett, Foreword by Monique Moyer, Introduction by Mike Buhler and Jay Turnbull

CLOTH, 978-0-61539-831-0, $40.00

The first book to tell the comprehensive—and largely unknown—story of San Francisco’s waterfront. Richly illustrated with historical images, drawings, maps, and specially commissioned color photographs.

Published by San Francisco Architectural Heritage

Courthouses of California: An Illustrated HistoryEdited with an Introduction by Ray McDevitt;

Foreword by Ronald M. George, Chief Justice of California, retired

CLOTH, 978-1-890771-49-2, $50.00

Carefully researched and superbly designed, this photo-documentary book chronicles 150 years of judicial architecture in California and offers a unique window into the civic

aspirations of our state through essays by distinguished members of the fields of history, law, and architecture, lavish illustrations, and hundreds of images.

Join Heyday and the California Historical Society (CHS) at the Ten Lions bookstore and community space for an art opening, book signing, or just stop by for a visit. Located at 678 Mission Street in San Francisco, Ten Lions features key Heyday titles that focus on California’s myriad stories as well as locally crafted items from Bay Area artisans.

To read more about our collaboration, see the Publisher’s Note on the inside front cover of our catalog. For more information on CHS visit www.californiahistoricalsociety.org.


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FictionECOTOPIA: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONErnest Callenbach

PAPER, 978-0-9604320-1-1, $13.95

ECOTOPIA EMERGINGErnest Callenbach

PAPER, 978-0-9604320-3-5, $19.95

FUPJim Dodge

PAPER, 978-1-59714-158-1, $9.95

JESSE’S GHOST: A NOVELFrank Bergon

CLOTH, 978-1-59714-153-6, $20.00

THE JOURNEY OF THE FLAMEWalter Nordhoff; Foreword by Rebecca Solnit

PAPER, 978-1-890771-58-4, $14.95

LUNCH BUCKET PARADISE: A TRUE-LIFE NOVELFred Setterberg


NOVEMBER GRASSJudy Van der Veer; Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin

PAPER, 978-1-890771-39-3, $13.95

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Literature and PoetryTALES OF THE FISH PATROLJack London; Introduction by Jerry George

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WOMAN OF ILL FAMEErika Mailman

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Memoirs and EssaysTHE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LINCOLN STEFFENSForeword by Tom C. Leonard

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BLITHE TOMATOMike Madison

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EDGES OF BOUNTY: ADVENTURES IN THE EDIBLE VALLEYWilliam Emery; Photographs by Scott Squire

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ENTANGLED: A CHRONICLE OF LATE LOVE Don Asher and Lois Goodwill

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FARMWORKER’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP MEXICAN IN AMERICARose Castillo Guilbault

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MARRIED AT FOURTEEN: A TRUE STORYLucille Lang Day

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THE ORACLES: MY FILIPINO GRANDPARENTS IN AMERICAPati Navalta Poblete

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TAKE ME TO THE RIVER: FISHING, SWIMMING, AND DREAMING ON THE SAN JOAQUINEdited by Joell Hallowell and Coke Hallowell

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New California Writing 2013Edited by Gayle Wattawa and Kirk Glaser; Foreword by Peter Coyote

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Handpicked from sources such as The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, The New York Times, Tin House, and publishers from UC Press to Counterpoint, this year’s collection opens a

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BITTER MELON: INSIDE AMERICA’S LAST RURAL CHINESE TOWNJeff Gillenkirk and James Motlow

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EAST EATS WEST: WRITING IN TWO HEMISPHERESAndrew Lam

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HOW DO I BEGIN?: A HMONG AMERICAN LITERARY ANTHOLOGYThe Hmong American Writers’ Circle

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Ethnic StudiesNOTHING LEFT IN MY HANDS: THE ISSEI OF A RURAL CALIFORNIA TOWN, 1900–1942Kazuko Nakane; Foreword by Naomi Hirahara

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ONLY WHAT WE COULD CARRY: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT EXPERIENCEEdited with an Introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada; Preface by Patricia Wakida; Afterword by William Hohri

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PERFUME DREAMS: REFLECTIONS ON THE VIETNAMESE DIASPORAAndrew Lam; Foreword by Richard Rodriguez

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TOPAZ MOON: CHIURA OBATA’S ART OF THE INTERNMENTEdited by Kimi Kodani Hill

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Manzanar to Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost HikerHank Umemoto

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TICKET TO EXILEAdam David Miller

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TURNED ROUND IN MY BOOTSBruce Patterson

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WALKING TRACTOR: AND OTHER COUNTRY TALESBruce Patterson

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ESSENTIAL MARY AUSTINEdited by Kevin Hearle

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ESSENTIAL MUIREdited by Fred White

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FROZEN MUSIC: A LITERARY EXPLORATION OF CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTUREEdited by David Chu; Foreword by John King

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HE FLIES THROUGH THE AIR WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE: A WILLIAM SAROYAN READEREdited by William E. Justice

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THE ILLUMINATED LANDSCAPE: A SIERRA NEVADA ANTHOLOGYEdited by Gary Noy and Rick Heide Illustrations by Joe Medeiros

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NO PLACE FOR A PURITAN: THE LITERATURE OF CALIFORNIA’S DESERTSEdited by Ruth Nolan

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RELEASING THE DAYSStephen Meadows

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Art, Photography, and ArchitectureALL THE SAINTS OF THE CITY OF THE ANGELS: SEEKING THE SOUL OF L.A. ON ITS STREETSJ. Michael Walker

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AT WORK: THE ART OF CALIFORNIA LABOREdited by Mark Dean Johnson

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CITYSCAPES: SAN FRANCISCO AND ITS BUILDINGSJohn King

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DARK METROPOLIS: IRVING NORMAN’S SOCIAL SURREALISMCrocker Art Museum and Irving Norman Trust Edited by Ray Day and Scott Shields

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EVERYDAY DOGS: A PERPETUAL CALENDAR FOR BIRTHDAYS AND OTHER NOTABLE DATESMary Scott and Susan Snyder

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WORD ON THE STREETPhotographs by Richard Nagler

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Excerpts 38 Brother and the Dancer 40 The Court That Tamed the West

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ALL OF US OR NONE: SOCIAL JUSTICE POSTERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREALincoln Cushing

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THE FRONT LINES OF SOCIAL CHANGE: VETERANS OF THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADERichard Bermack

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Ballet slippers might as well be glass slippers; matter-fact, might’s well be glass ceilings, Erycha thought. The ballet slip-pers she could buy, but it was all the expenses that purchasing the slippers entailed that became the problem. The slippers were an investment, followed by one expense after the next, so much money down the rabbit hole that her dancing life had become. There was no way to justify spending all that money, but once those slippers were on her feet again Erycha knew how hard it would be not to take the next step. Her whole body went tense at the thought of those slippers, like a noose drawn tight. The boy sitting next to her in the bleachers must have felt it, too, because he flinched a little and gave her a quick, concerned glance.

Erycha looked back at him. Couldn’t take her eyes off him now. She hadn’t had but two hours of sleep and figured the Kool-Aid red veins around her pupils probably made her look crazy. She noticed how the boy was leaning away from her and into his mother as he frowned back in her direction. He even lowered his gaze. But she couldn’t take her eyes off him.

Erycha didn’t know what college would be like. Already she was having trouble concentrating on what the student speaker wearing a gray U.S. Army T-shirt was preaching from his pulpit of a podium at the basketball gym’s center court. Her atten-tion had run off and hid and no matter what the man said, he couldn’t call it back.

Sitting next to her but leaning away and into his mom, Touissant Robert Freeman wasn’t interested in ethnic diver-sity or a more perfect university culture or anything else that the student speaker had to say. The speaker was from the military, which meant that he probably knew a lot about the mercenaries and losers that populated college campuses. A speech along those lines, or to do with the coked-up Chris-tian college kid who earlier that year went wilding like an act of God and burned down the neighborhood Buddhist temple, now that would make for an interesting speech. Touissant thought about the brand new mega church, its cement foun-dation snuffing out smoldering embers. The best stories never

Brother and the DancerA NovelKeenan Norris

From Part I: ORIENTATION

got told, or people long after the fact and far from the source mixed things up and got it all wrong.

He listened to the speaker firing off automatic rounds of platitudes, but his attention drifted to the girl sitting next to him: just a second prior she’d leaned into him out of careless-ness or suggestion and he’d noticed the momentary friction of her skin on his. She was the color of chocolate and wood, her body small and light so that it only slightly moved him when she leaned in. Her eyes were fierce, charged with an intensity not of her environment. He didn’t try to meet her gaze.

The second phase of orientation involved ushering the parents away with suggestions of fine dining in city restaurants and the re-fettering of the students based on their intended majors. Touissant kept his eye on the girl from the bleachers as she made her way out of the gym. He decided he would major in whatever she had decided to do with her life.

He followed the girl underneath a placard reading Dance. She had a long striding walk, elegant for such a short and shapely girl. And she moved slow too, slow enough that he walked up too close behind her and ticked her foot, which caused her to lose her footing and tremble in her heels.

“Hey there, what’s your name?” he asked opportunistically. He came shoulder-to-shoulder with her.

She cut her eyes his way. “Erycha Evans.” Erycha gave him her hand.He was already looking at her, appraising her. She judged

him and his appraising eyes right back, a full-on stare. Like so many boys, he had eyelashes that she would kill for; even once-a-week trips to Miss Simms’ beauty parlor couldn’t lengthen her lashes that long. Ironic, she thought, how pretty a boy could be. She thought about the beauty parlor back home, the sweet smells, the sour talk, the divas coming and going and prettying her up. She didn’t have money enough to go there and get fine right now. She knew she was half as pretty as she could be, wondered why he was even interested.

“Where you from?” she asked.He blinked at her like the question was unusual somehow

even though it was the first question everyone asked, where she was from. “Highland,” he said after a second.

“You are?”He nodded.“Me too,” she stuttered, “I’m from there, too.” She had never seen him before. He had never seen her.“You are?”“Yeah.”“Highland isn’t big enough to hide people.” He laughed. “I

live over by where the Buddhist temple used to be.”She laughed. “I’m a lot closer to Central City Mission than

that Buddhism place.” The mystery was solved. “Oh,” they said in unison.“You’re from the Westside.” He laughed.“You from East Highland.” She smiled, letting her teeth

show this time. “But it’s all good: we still from the same city.”“The same suburb.” He corrected her.“Nah, where I’m at, it’s city.”

Like the city that had birthed and nurtured it, the university was vast but uncrowded and serene, a hot and windless plain of scattered trees and infrequent buildings and wandering students who came and went in ones and twos. The campus’s long pathways seemed to reach out into the sky or over the edge of the world, they ran so long and so deserted. The path-ways ran into and out of the school and because of the lack of trees and buildings the new students had a view onto the city that would soon be their home, a nondescript industrial sprawl of shopping centers and apartment houses and motels and tire and brake shops and supermercados. This wasn’t San Diego or San Francisco, Santa Cruz or Santa Barbara; there was nothing picturesque or even vivid in these polluted skies. “When the smog recedes in the evening, we have the loveliest sunsets,” their tour guide told them.

“On your left,” he continued, “is the Science Library: it’s newly renovated with beautiful new carpeting, couches for study groups and individual desks for individual students. We’ve installed a temperature control panel. And to your right, you’ll notice two towering smokestacks in the sky. Those con-stitute the mathematics hall…

“Now here’s our English Library. Constructed in 1964, it is the oldest building on the campus, and what it lacks tech-nologically it makes up for in charm and dignity. Though the air conditioning is only a feature of the first and third floors, the second and fourth floors have been equipped with large electric fans…”

The tour lived and died like this, a long string of introduc-tions to various inanimate objects.

The sun shone overhead, a cruel brilliance of heat and light. “We the only two,” Erycha said, peering up at him to catch

his expression. She still didn’t know his name. “Did you notice that, we the only two?”

“The only two from Highland?” “Yeah. And the only two black people from there or from

anywhere else. At least we the only two with this major that I’m seein. You seen somethin different? Nahright. You see what I see. What you think about that?”

“I think it’s not true.” He pointed at one black boy here, one mixed girl there. “There’s, like, several.”

But in fact the black boy and mixed girl weren’t even fresh-men. The boy, Erycha remembered from the student speaker’s opening address, was an editor for the school newspaper. And the girl was the chief coordinator for the ASU, Asian Student Union, and MSU, Minority Student Union (the BSU having been dissolved into this more embracing exclusivity).

Erycha explained these facts and watched him think it over for a second before nodding, conceding. “A’ight, now you know to trust me.” She smiled. “So, what you think about that?”


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Authorized by No Law

Fiat Justitia Ruat Coelum: “Let justice be done though the heavens fall” was the motto of San Francisco’s Committee of Vigilance.

Taking the law into one’s own hands was a California pas-time—and occasional necessity—that predated the federal Dis-trict Court. Frontier justice was the only practical option in the Wild West before the establishment of local, state, and fed-eral judicial systems. There were no courts and few jails, and the population was essentially transient until the early 1850s. Travel to a town large enough for legal niceties was often impractical. So when a horse thief or murderer was caught, justice was often immediate.

What made the San Francisco Vigilance Movement of the 1850s different from frontier justice was that local judicial institutions were already established when popular militias were formed to clean up the city. Organizers were not miners and frontiersmen, but the city’s most prominent citizens: mer-chants, shippers, lawyers, bankers, doctors, publishers, and politicians. In 1851 and 1856, these men were so outraged with the city’s rampant crime and disgusted with corruption among its officials that they usurped elected politicians and the police force as the city’s central authority. The committees were highly organized and gave themselves the hallmarks of legiti-macy by passing bylaws, holding trials, carrying out sentences, and leading the city during a vacuum of leadership. The vast majority of the city’s residents supported them.

“San Francisco has been through its season of Heaven-defying crime, violence and blood,” wrote Richard Henry Dana Jr., “from which it was rescued and handed back to soberness, morality and good government, by that peculiar invention of Anglo-Saxon Republican America, the solemn, awe-inspiring Vigilance Committee of the most grave and responsible citizens, the last resort of the thinking and the good, taken to only when vice, fraud and ruffianism have intrenched [sic] themselves

The Court That Tamed the WestFrom the Gold Rush to the Tech BoomRichard Cahan, Pia Hinckle, and Jessica Royer Ocken

From Chapter 1: THE ADMIRALTY COURT, 1850s–1860s

behind the forms of law, suffrage, and ballot, and there is no hope but in an organized force, whose action must be instant and thorough, or its state will be worse than before.”

[San Francisco’s] two short-lived but effective committees of vigilance captured, tried, convicted, and executed criminals under quasi-judicial proceedings including defense, prosecu-tion, judge, and jury. Four men were convicted and hung for crimes ranging from burglary to arson, assault, and murder; at least one committed suicide while awaiting trial; and a number of others were banished from California under threat of execu-tion. The members justified their extra-legal conduct by point-ing to the impotence of the police and courts and the brazen-ness of the criminals.

Judge [Ogden] Hoffman was in the minority in opposing the committees publicly. But it would not be until the 1856 committee that he would be called to address the authority of this popular movement, together with Judge Matthew Hall McAllister of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Districts of Cali-fornia. While the 1851 committee (sparked by the rampages of Australian felons called the Sydney Ducks) played its role in the Challenge trials by heading off the lynch mob looking for Captain Waterman, the 1856 Committee of Vigilance was the largest and most powerful of the two. It seized complete control of the city, executed two men, banished dozens more (two of whom would later file suit in the District Court), and imprisoned and tried in its court the chief justice of the State Supreme Court, David Terry. The federal District Court and the Circuit Court would be the only institutions—judicial or otherwise—that would stand up to the committee’s extra-legal activities.

When Hoffman arrived in San Francisco in the spring of 1850, the city was experiencing its first economic depression and crime had exploded. The number of reported burglaries jumped from three in the first half of 1850 to forty-nine in the second half to fifty-three in early 1851. (The population was

about thirty thousand in the summer of 1851.) Murders like-wise increased. “Who is safe when the store of a peaceable citizen can be entered and the proprietor almost murdered?” asked the Alta California in 1851 after an audacious downtown robbery. “Is it worthwhile if caught to offer them [the crimi-nals] a trial in our courts?” questioned the California Courier, about thieves who used their loot to pay “pettifogging” attor-neys to get them released. “Is it not better to make examples of them, if found, by hanging them at once?”

A real city jail was still being built in the early 1850s, and temporary jails were inadequate, with escapes being common-place. Even so, there were a number of prominent residents who could not justify what was essentially a military coup d’état. Chief among them was Judge Hoffman, a hardcore federalist who abhorred violence and believed above all in the rule of law and its institutions to maintain order. He actively opposed both vigilance committees by supporting the anti-vigilance Law and Order Party. San Franciscans learned of his appointment to their federal District Court the same month he publicly defended a state judge critical of the 1851 committee.

It must be remembered that by 1853, San Francisco’s gov-ernment had been infiltrated by malleable politicians and “hounds,” the contemporary term for ex-convicts. Imports from New York’s corrupt Tammany Hall and Bowery gangs had inserted themselves in the city’s nascent public infra-structure and were milking the city of cash. City expendi-tures that year were $2,646,000. Under a reform manage-ment following the 1856 committee, “the city got along in good shape with the expenditure of $353,000,” reported The Annals of San Francisco, the comprehensive 1855 book chronicling the city’s early years.

The formation of the 1856 committee was sparked by two events, the killing of a U.S. marshal and the murder of a cru-sading newspaper editor. On November 18, 1855, the marshal for the Northern District, William H. Richardson, was shot by

Charles Cora, a notorious gambler. Richardson was not on duty at the time. He had been drinking heavily and had taken offense to something that Cora said as he passed him entering the Blue Wing, a Montgomery Street saloon popular with poli-ticians. “Cora was a gambler, yet he did not look the character. He was a low-sized, well-formed man; dressed in genteel man-ner, without display of jewelry or loudness; was reserved and quiet in his demeanor; and his manners and conversation were those of a refined gentleman,” wrote pioneer journalist James O’Meara in his account of that turbulent year. “General Rich-ardson was a morose and at times a very disagreeable man. He was of low stature, thick set, dark complexion, black hair, and usually wore a bull-dog look. He was known by his intimate friends to be a dangerous man as a foe, and he always went armed with a pair of derringers.”

On the night of the shooting, O’Meara was drinking with John Monroe (Hoffman’s clerk of court) and some other men in the Court Exchange when Richardson came in. Still obsessing about the presumed insult, Richardson “became sullen and, as we all knew his nature, it was quietly agreed among ourselves that we would leave and try to get him away.” They walked him towards his home South of Market, where he insisted on one last drink. There they left him. Richardson soon headed back towards the Blue Wing to find Cora, which he did. He asked him outside and “walked with him around the corner into Clay street…and so managed as to put Cora on the iron grating, of the sidewalk inside, with his back to the brick wall of the store. Cora had not the slightest idea that Richardson had taken offence at his remark on Thursday night,” wrote O’Meara.

Thus cornered, Cora shot Richardson dead. He claimed self-defense, and despite public prejudice against him, a local jury was unable to arrive at a verdict.


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Watch for new editions of these classic Heyday titles, reissued in honor of our upcoming fortieth anniversary in 2014.

THE HARVEST GYPSIES: ON THE ROAD TO THE GRAPES OF WRATHJohn SteinbeckSeven newspaper articles that John Steinbeck wrote for The San Francisco News in 1936 provide an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration and the factual foundation for his masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck’s original articles. Published in collaboration with the California Council for the Humanities

JOURNEY TO TOPAZYoshiko UchidaBased on Yoshiko Uchida’s personal expe-riences, this is the moving story of one girl’s struggle to remain brave during the Japanese internment of World War II. In a bleak and dusty prison camp, eleven-year-old Yuki and her family experience both true friendship and heart-wrenching tragedy. Journey to Topaz explores the con-sequences of prejudice and the capacities of the human spirit. First published in 1971, this book is now a much loved and widely read classic.

THE OHLONE WAY: INDIAN LIFE IN THE SAN FRANCISCO–MONTEREY BAY AREAMalcolm MargolinOne of the most groundbreaking and highly acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indian people who inhab-ited the Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans. Named by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the hundred most important books of the twentieth century by a western writer.

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A BOOK ON NATIVE CALIFORNIA FOODSKathleen Rose SmithCelebrating traditional food gathering and preparation across the seasons, Kath-leen Rose Smith reveals the skills and techniques handed down through gen-erations of her Bodega Miwok and Dry Creek Pomo ancestors. Her knowledge and personal reflections are expressed through text and illustrations, recording not only the technical and artistic aspects of food gathering, but also the social and spiritual—inextricable elements of tra-ditional California Indian food prepara-tion. She explores relationships between people and nature, the gendered division of labor, and the deep cultural knowledge and practice that have given meaning and grace to the most ordinary aspects of daily life. Coming Spring 2014.

THE BAY AREA THROUGH TIMELaura CunninghamLaura Cunningham’s work opens young minds to the changes that occur through geologic time and stimulates the imagination, allowing us to envision a Bay Area vastly different from what we know today. The Bay Area through Time is playful as well as edu-cational, offering a fascinating look at far-off times and long-disappeared creatures while giving us a deeper understanding of the species that remain, and how the modern landscape came to be. The author’s scientific rigor, combined with her artistry, casts these ancient lands in breathtakingly beautiful detail. Coming Spring 2014.

ONLY WHAT WE COULD CARRY: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT EXPERIENCEEdited with Introduction by Lawson InadaThrough personal documents, art, and reproductions of propaganda, Only What We Could Carry expresses the fear, confu-sion, and anger of the WWII internment camp experience. The only anthology of its kind, it is an emotional and intellec-tual testament to the dignity, spirit, and strength of the Japanese American intern-ees. A project of the California Civil Lib-erties Public Education Program

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INDEX 4746 INDEX

Adopted by Indians .............................. 28

Aesop in California ............................... 27

All of Us or None .................................. 36

All the Saints of the City of the Angels ... 35

Anza Trail and the Settling of California, The ................................ 30

Archy Lee ............................................. 30

At Work ............................................... 35

Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, The . 33

Backyard Birds of the Inland Empire ...... 26

Bad Indians .......................................... 28

Bear in Mind ........................................ 35

Beyond Words ...................................... 30

Birds of Napa County ........................... 26

Bitter Melon ......................................... 32

Black California ................................... 34

Blithe Tomato ....................................... 33

Blue Jay Girl ......................................... 27

Bret Harte’s Gold Rush .......................... 34

Bringing Our Languages Home ............. 36

Brother and the Dancer .......................... 11

Califauna ............................................ 34

Califlora .............................................. 34

California: A Study of American Character ........ 30

California Bestiary, A ............................ 26

California Glaciers ............................... 26

California Poetry .................................. 34

Californian’s Guide to the Trees among Us, A ................................... 26

Chief Marin .......................................... 28

Children of Manzanar........................... 30

Cityscapes ........................................... 35

Coast to Explore, A .............................. 26

Court That Tamed the West, The ........... 19

Courthouses of California ...................... 31

Dark Metropolis ................................... 35

Deeper Than Gold ................................ 28

Discovering Early California Afro-Latino Presence ....................... 30

Discovering Nature’s Alphabet .............. 27

Dream Songs and Ceremony ................ 28

East Eats West ...................................... 32

Ecotopia .............................................. 33

Ecotopia Emerging ............................... 33

Edges of Bounty ................................... 33

Eldorado .............................................. 30

Entangled ............................................ 33

Essential Art ......................................... 28

Essential Mary Austin ........................... 34

Essential Muir ...................................... 34

Everyday Dogs ..................................... 35

Everything Indicates ............................. 35

Farmworker’s Daughter ........................ 33

Fast Cars and Frybread ......................... 28

Father Junípero’s Confessor ................... 18

Fine Art of California Indian Basketry, The ................................................. 22

First Families ........................................ 28

Flora of the Santa Ana River ................. 26

Flutes of Fire ......................................... 28

Fool’s Paradise ..................................... 30

Front Lines of Social Change ................. 36

Frozen Music ........................................ 34

Fup ...................................................... 33

Gables and Fables ................................ 35

General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans ....................................... 30

Giving with Confidence ........................ 36

Grass Games and Moon Races.............. 28

Grassroots Philanthropy ....................... 36

Grave Matters ...................................... 28

Harvest Gypsies, The ............................ 30

He Flies through the Air with the Greatest of Ease .............................. 34

Heirlooms ............................................ 33

Here Tomorrow ..................................... 13

Hetch Hetchy ....................................... 26

High Sierra of California, The ............... 36

How Do I Begin? .................................. 32

How to Keep Your Language Alive ........ 36

Humphrey the Wayward Whale ............ 27

Illuminated Landscape, The .................. 34

Indian Summer ..................................... 29

It Will Live Forever ................................ 29

Jesse’s Ghost ......................................... 33

Jewish Life in the American West............ 30

Journey of the Flame ............................. 33

Journey to Topaz ................................... 27

Kodoku ................................................ 27

Lands of Promise and Despair ............... 30

Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, The ................................................. 25

Laws Guide to Drawing Birds, The ........ 25

Laws Pocket Guide Set, The .................. 25

Lela Rhoades, Pit River Woman ............. 28

Letters to the Valley .............................. 33

Life Amongst the Modocs ..................... 29

Life in a California Mission .................... 30

Lion Singer ........................................... 27

Literary Industries ................................. 10

Lunch Bucket Paradise .......................... 33

Magpies and Mayflies ........................... 26

Maidu Indian Myths, The ...................... 29

Making Home from War ....................... 30

Many Worlds ........................................ 27

Manzanar to Mount Whitney ................ 32

Mark Twain’s San Francisco .................. 34

Married at Fourteen.............................. 33

Masha’allah and Other Stories .............. 34

Morning the Sun Went Down, The ........ 29

Mother Goose in California................... 27

Mountains and Molehills....................... 30

Naturalist’s Guide to the Santa Barbara Region, A .......................................... 9

Nature’s Beloved Son ............................ 35

New California Writing 2011 .................. 34

New California Writing 2012 ................. 34

New California Writing 2013 ................. 33

No Place for a Puritan ........................... 34

No Rooms of Their Own ....................... 34

Nothing Left in My Hands ..................... 32

November Grass ................................... 33

O, My Ancestor .................................... 29

Ohlone Way, The ................................. 29

Only What We Could Carry .................. 32

Oracles, The ........................................ 33

Pairing of Polarities ............................... 35

Panamint Shoshone Basketry ................ 29

Peace Is a Four-Letter Word .................. 27

Perfume Dreams................................... 32

Port Chicago Mutiny, The ..................... 30

Port City .............................................. 30

Queen’s Journey, A ............................... 33

Raccoon Next Door, The ....................... 26

Rancho Los Alamitos ............................ 30

Rare Botanical Legacy, A ...................... 26

Releasing the Days ............................... 34

Remember Your Relations ..................... 29

Rise of the Ranges of Light .................... 26

River of Words ...................................... 27

Rivers of California ............................... 35

Room to Breathe .................................. 26

Rose Hill .............................................. 33

Sacrament ............................................ 17

Saltscapes.............................................. 7

Samurai of Gold Hill ............................. 27

San Francisco: Arts for the City ............. 35

Scrape the Willow until It Sings ............. 29

Seaweed, Salmon, and Manzanita Cider ............................................... 29

Shirley Letters, The ............................... 30

Sierra Birds .......................................... 25

Smokehouse Boys, The ......................... 34

So Far from Home ................................ 30

Soul Calling ......................................... 35

Spiders in Your Neighborhood ............... 20

Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me! ................. 29

State of Change, A ............................... 26

Stickeen ............................................... 27

Straight with the Medicine .................... 29

Sudden and Solitary ............................. 35

Tahoe beneath the Surface .................... 31

Take Me to the River ............................. 33

Tales of the Fish Patrol .......................... 33

Tamalpais Walking ................................ 21

Testimonios ........................................... 31

There’s a Hummingbird in My Backyard ......................................... 27

There’s an Opossum in My Backyard ..... 27

Ticket to Exile ....................................... 34

Topaz Moon ......................................... 32

Trees of Golden Gate Park and San Francisco, The ................................. 26

Turned Round in My Boots .................... 34

Una Storia Segreta ................................ 31

Valley of Shadows and Dreams ............. 36

Vital Signs ............................................ 15

Walking the Flatlands ........................... 26

Walking Tractor.................................... 34

Wallace Stegner’s West ......................... 34

Way We Lived, The ............................... 29

Where Light Takes Its Color from the Sea ................................................. 34

Wherever There’s a Fight ........................ 31

Wildness Within, The ........................... 26

Woman of Ill Fame ................................ 33

Word on the Street ............................... 36

Yankee in Mexican California, 1834–1836, A ................................... 31


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There’s nothing like it when the project you’ve worked so hard on starts to get recognition: a stellar review, a place on the recommended books shelf at the bookstore, a well-attended event, or, best of all, a mountain of advance orders. But it starts with the blurbs.

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Andrew Winer, author of the celebrated The Marriage Artist and a professor of creative writing at UC River-side, sent us a blurb for Keenan Norris’s Brother and the Dancer (announced elsewhere in this catalog), which I reproduce here in part: “Brother and the Dancer delivers everything we want from a first novel…And yet it gives us something more, too, and just as exciting: the prose of a mature artist, and an understanding of the human heart that would seem nearly impossible in a writer so young.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself. This novel profoundly moved me with its nuanced and courageous ex-ploration of the cusp of adulthood. It had the same tectonic emotional effect on me as the writings of Wallace Stegner and James D. Houston: how fitting that Brother and the Dancer won our literary award named in honor of the latter. If you are reluctant to follow this editor’s suggestion, follow the infinitely more articulate Mr. Winer’s and add this incredible debut to your reading radar. I haven’t read its equal in a long time.

Catalog Cover: Traces of former marsh channels, Bayfront Park, August 2011. Photograph by Cris Benton from Saltscapes: The Kite Aerial Photography of Cris Benton.

Pages 8–9: Illustrations by Peter Gaede. All photographs by Stuart Wilson, except oriole image, by Robert Goodell.

Page 10: Image of Hubert Howe Bancroft courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Page 12: Images clockwise from top left: Ford Assembly Building, photograph by © Billy Hustace Photography; Pasadena City Hall, photograph by © victormuschettophotography.com; Stanford Mansion, photograph by © Gino Creglia; Ennis House, photograph by © John Vincenti; LAX Theme Building, photograph by © Vince Tanzilli, Miyamoto International.

Page 18: Woodcut from Relación histórica de la vida y apostólicas tareas del venerable padre Fray Junípero Serra, by Francisco Palóu, 1787. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, F864.S48 P2.

Page 19: Image of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, photograph by © Chris Ocken.

Page 43: “Ice Age” by Laura Cunningham.

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