California Mineral: Gold
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"Gold made the golden trout the state fish and the golden poppy the state flower. Gold brought to California men to match the mountains where the gold was found, and brought them in such numbers as to transform San Francisco from a desultory haven for 812 persons to a frantic hive of 25,000 in two years; to lift California from less than 10,000 total population to 100,000 in the same two years, and to 264,435 by the state census of 1852.
Economically, gold gave California a self-contained source of capital that not only prevented it from sharing the common far western fate of exploitation by the financial east but enabled California to become an investor in, and exploiter of, the Far West in her own right. This does not mean that great hordes of prospectors struck it rich in Shirt Tail Gulch or Bogus Thunder or wherever, and thereafter invested their gains in ranches or other mines or real estate in Nevada or Oregon or Idaho or Arizona. Rather, it was the mercantile class, the men who mined the miners, who accumulated the initial investment capital and reinvested it elswhere.
Socially, gold transformed California from a sleepy, isolated, pastoral land into a bustling, basically urban, very cosmopolitan, and socially fluid member of the world community."
California: Two Centuries of Man, Land, & Growth in the Golden State by W. H. Hutchinson
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Margolin, Malcolm (1940- ____)
Malcolm Margolin grew up in Boston and graduated from Harvard College in 1962. He worked for the East Bay Regional Park District for three years, mostly running youth conservation projects at Redwood Regional Park. He has taught publishing courses at University of California Extension, Berkeley, has served as advisor and mentor to many other publishers, and is active in a number of professional associations.
He is the owner and publisher of Heyday Books, which he founded in 1974. Heyday publishes books on California history, natural history, literature, travel, and Native American life. Malcolm is also publisher and co-editor of News from Native California, which he founded in 1987. News is a quarterly magazine devoted to the history and ongoing culture of California Indians. He was given an award by the California Indian Health Services in 1996 for work done through News from Native California. Other awards include: The Fred Cody Award, Martin Baumhoff Award, writer's residency at Djerassi Foundation, Artist residency at Headlands Center for the Arts.
In addition to the books listed below, his articles and other writings have appeared in a number of periodicals such as The Nation, Small Press, National Parks, San Francisco Chronicle, etc.
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| The Earth Manual | Nonfiction | Houghton Mifflin | 1975 |
| The East Bay Out: A Personal Guide to the East Bay Regional Parks | Nonfiction | Berkeley, CA; Heyday Books | 1974 |
| Historical Introduction in Berkeley Inside/Out | Nonfiction |  | 1989 |
| Introduction and commentary in Monterey in 1786: The Journals of Jean Francoise de La Perouse | Nonfiction | | 1989 |
| The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area | Nonfiction | Berkeley, CA; Heyday Books | 1978 |
| The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories, and Songs | Nonfiction | | 1981 1993 |
Masumoto, David Mas
"I grew up, ran away to UC Berkeley, then to Japan only to return to the farm. Our family works 80 acres of organic peaches and grapes on a piece of land just south of Fresno, California.
I still farm, write and try to share stories as much as possible."
DMM, 2/2000
David Mas Masumoto's book "Silent Strength" won the James Clavell Literary Award and "Epitaph for a Peach" won the Julia Child Cookbook Award for Literary Writing.
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| Country Voices | Nonfiction | Del Rey, CA; Inaka Countryside Publications | 1987 |
| Distant Voices | Nonfiction | | |
| Epitaph For a Peach | Nonfiction | CA/NY, NY; HarperSF/HarperCollins | 1995 |
| Harvest Son, Planting Roots in American Soil | Nonfiction | New York, NY; W.W. Norton | 1998 |
| Silent Strength | Fiction | Japan; New Currents International | 1985 |
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel ( 1918 - _____)
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel's poems bear powerful witness to one of the
nation's most dramatic sagas, the Dustbowl exodus of the depression and its aftermath,
and they speak with a masterly, deceptively simple style. She was born in Stroud,
Oklahoma, and raised in the area called the Creek Indian Nation. Her sharecropping
family made the Dustbowl-Great Depression exodus to California in 1936.
True to place, true to people, yet powerfully universal, Wilma's
language is as vernacular as what you might hear in a Central Valley shopping mall and her subjects are as palpable as breath itself. Wilma's poetry offers remarkable folk wisdom, revelations of the intimate braiding of her two states, and glimpses of life lived on the cusp of poverty where
hope and hopelessness dance.
Her poems have appeared in publications such as: Attention Please, Encore,
Minnesota Review, 99-Vintage and Women Talking, Women Listening.
The poet is author of over fifteen collections of poetry and prose. Her work is included in "Highway 99, a literary journey through California's Great Central Valley", "Many Californias, Literature from the Golden State" , "California Heartland: Writing from the Great Central Valley", "Reinventing the Enemys Language", "Liberating Memory", "Multi-Cultural Voices", "Broomstick", "Way", "Sojourner", and "The Things that Divide Us."
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| The Girl from Buttonwillow | Poetry | Stockton, CA; Wormwood Press | 1990 |
| I Killed a Bee for You | Poetry | Marvin, SD; Blue Cloud Quarterly | 1987 |
| The Ketchup Bottle | Poetry | St. John, KS; Chiran Review Press | 1996 |
| The Last Dust Storm | Poetry | Brooklyn, NY; Hanging Loose Press | 1995 |
| Mary and Martha | Fiction | Springville, CA; Back 40 Publishing | 1976 |
| A Primer for Buford | Poetry | Brooklyn, NY; Hanging Loose Press | 1990 |
| A Prince Albert Wind | Poetry | Albuquerque, NM; Mother Road Press | 1994 |
| The Red Coffee Can (Stories and Poems) | Poetry | Fresno, CA; Valley Publishers | 1974 |
| Sister Vayda's Song | Poetry | Brooklyn, NY; Hanging Loose Press | 1982 |
| Sleeping In a Truck | Poetry | Santa Barbara, CA; Mille Grazie Press | 1998 |
| The Wash Tub | Fiction | Fresno, CA; Pioneer Press | 1976 |
Miller, Adam David
Adam David Miller is a writer, teacher, scholar/critic, television and radio producer, and editor/publisher. For three decades his work has appeared in such anthologies as New Black Writing, Literature of Black America, Theatre of Black america, and Court of Appeal, and such magazines and journals as TDR, Nimrod, BA SHIRU, The Black Scholar, Hypatia, Bottomfish, Synapse, and Black Theatre.
He has taught in California schools and colleges, at Tuskegee Institute, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Mr. Miller was an Invited Summer Fellow at the Bay Area Writing Project, A National Endowment of Humanities Fellow, and an Artist in Residence (theatre) at Western Michigan University.
He is a Winner of the 1994 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
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| Dices or Black Bones, editor | | | |
| Forever Afternoon | Poetry | Michigan State University Press, East Lansing | 1994 |
| Neighborhood and Other Poems | | | |
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