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"San Francisco in the 1850's was full of broken men, searching for whatever day labor they could find. Many of them, having given up on returning home, decided to make a try at farming or ranching in the Central Valley. Most of the pioneers who followed the miners in wagon trains had farming on their minds, too, and by the 1860's the Central Valley was already a vista of cows." "By 1862 there were about 3 million cattle and 9 million sheep [in the Great Central Valley]." |
| Double Indemnity | Fiction | ||
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Fiction |
| Fast One | Fiction |
| Ecotopia | Fiction | ||
| Ecotopia Emerging | Fiction |
| One Day on Beetle Rock | Non-Fiction |
"James H. Carson, a Virginia native whose army regiment landed at Monterey just after the Mexican War ended in 1847, deserted his army duties while on furlough to explore and pan the tributaries of the Stanislaus River. He struck it rich at what was soon called Carson's Creek but developed rheumatism in the process and spent most of his remaining days in the state hospital in Monterey. In early 1852, the Stockton newspaper The San Joaquin Republican printed thirty-three articles written by Carson from his sickbed describing humorous anecdotes from his mining experiences. His letters were collected later that year as Early Recollections of the California Mines, the first book ever published in Stockton. He died in April 1853 -- a month before his wife and daughter finally arrived in California." | |||
| Early Recollections of the California Mines | Fiction | 1852 | |
| At Night the Salmon Move | Poetry | ||
| Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? | Fiction |
| California Heritage | Anthology |
| Emplumada | Poetry |
"Raymond Chandler wrote with classical dispassion of a romantic and violent society. His vision was not dazzled by the neons which rainbow the Southern California night. He had the X-ray eye that penetrates blacktop and fog. He had the gift of tongue; he was a poet. Metaphors flowered for him in language suited to the exotic people and places he was describing. Chandler didn't moralize, satirize, deplore, or lament; he saw, selected, and said, in language that lives." | |||
| The Big Sleep | Fiction | Alfred A. Knopf | 1939 |
| Farewell My Lovely | Fiction | ||
| The High Window | Fiction | Alfred A. Knopf | 1942 |
| Killer in the Rain | Fiction |  | |
| The Lady in the Lake | Fiction | Alfred A. Knopf | 1943 |
| The Little Sister | Fiction | | |
| The Long Goodbye | Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | 1953 |
| Pick-up on Noon Street | Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | 1934 |
| The Red Wind | Fiction | | |
| The Simple Art of Murder | Fiction | | |
| Spanish Blood: a collection of short stories | Fiction | The World Publishing Company | 1946 |
| Trouble is My Business | Fiction | Houghton Mifflin | 1934 |
"Cesar Chavez is best known for his indefatigable organizing efforts on behalf of the migrant farm workers in America. A man of deep, abiding conscience, he was successful in a broad range of legal and political battles with California agribusiness in helping attain some alleviation of the crushing poverty and exploitation of the migrant workers. His union is the United Farm Workers of America." | |||
| The Chickencoop Chinaman and the Year of the Dragon | Drama | ||
| A Chinese Lady Dies | Fiction | ||
| Donald Duk | Fiction |
| The Track of the Cat | fiction |
"Samuel Clemens is not well known these days for his California writing, but it was there he lived and worked for a time and developed his monumental talent. He was in the goldfields ostensibly mining for gold, but what he won was material. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County" is his best-known California tale." He was an associate of Bret Harte, Ina Coolbrith, and Charles Warren Stoddard at The Overland Monthly and a fixture in San Francisco's social life in the 1860s. After he returned to the East and published novels such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the ex-painter, ex-steamboat pilot, and ex-journalist emerged by the end of the nineteenth century as one of this country's greatest writers. | |||
| Roughing It | Nonfiction | ||
| A Tramp Abroad | Fiction | 1865 | |
| Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade: Elizabeth and Louise Hickox | Nonfiction | The University of Arizona Press | 1997 |
| Blood Moon | fiction | ||
| Kingdom Road | fiction |
"Ina Donna Coolbrith was a niece of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church. Christened Josephine Smith, she later changed her name to Ina Donna Coolbrith (her mother's maiden name) and kept her past a secret even from close friends. A woman of beauty and wit, she was, along with Bret Harte and Charles Warren Stoddard, one of San Francisco's original "Golden Gate Trinity" in the 1860's and an editor of The Overland Monthly. Eventually designated poet laureate of California, she was also a librarian in Oakland, where she profoundly influenced a young Jack London. She was involved in various literary Bohemian movements and for many years conducted a salon for artists in her East Bay home. Coolbrith's career extended well into this century, so it spanned the entire formative period of this state's English-language literary history." Sample Poem | |||
| Fig Tree John | fiction | ||
| Mojave | fiction |
| Gasoline and Vestal Lady | Poetry |
Art Coelho is a poet, short-story writer, novelist, and painter. He is the grandson of Azorean-Portuguese immigrants from the Azores Islands. Through his Seven Buffaloes Press, he has published numerous poetry and story collections by Central Valley Writers. He grew up on two family farms in Fresno County, in the Riverdale and Five Points area, and currently lives in Montana. | |||
| 99 Vintage: Nine Heartland Poets | Anthology | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1980 |
| At the Rainbow's End: Dustbowl Okie Anthology | Anthology | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1982 |
| Blackjack #7:A Collection of Western Writing from the Central Valley of California | Anthology | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1978 |
| The Blake Boys Revenge | Prose | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1978 |
| Evening Comes Slow to a Farmhand: Selected Road Poems | Poetry | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1982 |
| Faces of the San Joaquin | Prose | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1978 |
| Father Me Home, Winds | Anthology | Riverdale, CA: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1975 |
| Fresno County Tales: Eleven Short Stories from the San Joaquin Valley | Prose | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1979 |
| Home Valley: Five Heartland Prose Writers | Anthology | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1980 |
| The Man and His Model-M | Poetry | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1993 |
| My Okie Rose | Poetry | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1976 |
| Papa's Naturalization | Prose | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1991 |
| Proud Harvest: Writing from the San Joaquin | Anthology | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1979 |
| The Valley Oaks | Prose | Big Timber, MT: Seven Buffaloes Press | 1979 |
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