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"The demise of native vegetation in the Great Central Valley goes back to the period of Spanish missions in the 1700s. Originally, there were some 23 million acres ( 9 million ha) of California prairie. Its disappearance is not a consequence of grazing per se, because Valley Grassland evolved for millions of years in association with large mammalian grazers. Rather, the problem is overgrazing. Whereas native large mammals migrated seasonally, the numbers were kept in check by natural ecological constraints, domestic mammals may occur year-round or in numbers that far exceed carrying capacity. The Spanish introduced small, long-horned cattle and small, long legged sheep known as Churro. As the missions spread northward, the numbers of livestock increased phenomenally. At the height of the mission period, there were about 400,000 head of cattle and 300,000 sheep. In addition, there were large numbers of horses and mules, many of which had gone wild." |
| Dame Shirley | R. H. Dana | M. Davidson | M. Davis | J. Deangulo |
| G. Derby | D. Di Prima | M. Di Leo | J. Didion | R. Dillon |
| C. B. Divakaruni | J. Dodge | R. Dokey | J. G. Dunne | |
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| Two Years Before the Mast | Non-fiction |
| The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century | Fiction |
| City of Quartz | Fiction |
| A Jaime DeAngulo Reader | Fiction |
George Derby (also known as Squibob and John Phoenix) was "a humorist and career military man. He was born in Dedham, Massachusetts and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1846. In 1849 he was sent to California and conducted three expeditions, including a trip to the Tulare Valley in 1850. Writing under his pseudonyms, however, Derby was a popular satirist, a master of puns, grotesque exaggeration, ridiculous understatement, and irony." | |||
| Bright Gem of the Western Seas, California 1846-1852 ; © by Peter Browning | Fiction | Great West Books | 1991 |
| Phoenizian; or Sketches and Burlesques | Fiction | 1865 | |
| (with Eleanor Smith) Two Californias: The Truth About the Split-State Movement | Nonfiction | Covelo, CA; Island Press | 1983 |
| Pieces of a Song | Poetry |
| Her visions of California are razor sharp and unique, and her prose is crystalline. "The most important figure among the new California, and the one who most profoundly invoked the California mythos was ... Joan Didion." | |||
| The Book of Common Prayer | Fiction | 1977 | |
| Play it as it Lays | Fiction | 1970 | |
| Run River | Fiction | 1963 | |
| Slouching Toward Bethlehem | Non-fiction | 1968 | |
| The White Album | Non-fiction | ||
Chitra was born in India and spent the first nineteen years of her life there. She came to the U.S. and earned an MA in English from Wright State University in Ohio and a Ph.D. in English from UC Berkeley. Among her numerous honors are an Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and awards from the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, the Gerbode foundation, and the Santa Clara Arts Council. | |||
| Black Candle | Poetry | ||
| Dark Like the River | Poetry | ||
| the reason for nasturtiums | Poetry | ||
| Arranged Marriage | Fiction | ||
| The Mistress of Spices | Fiction | ||
| Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers | Non-fiction |
| Fup | Fiction |
Richard Dokey -- born in California -- lives and teaches in Stockton. Educated at U.C. Berkeley, he has worked in a shipyard, for a railroad, in an ink manufacturing plant and as an assembly line worker for Squirt and Dr. Pepper. His short stories have been cited as distinct by Martha Foley and he has had work included in Best American Short Stories, Southwest Review, Descent, Fiction Texas, Epoch, and South Dekota Review. | |||
| August Heat | Fiction | Chicago: Story Press | 1982 |
| Birthright | Fiction | ||
| The Hollow Man | Fiction | Delta Press | |
| Two Beer Sun | Fiction | ||
| Delano | Non-fiction | ||
| The Studio | Fiction | ||
| True Confessions | Fiction |
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