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Uncle Dave's Story: The Life of Ex-Slave Dave Boffman (Item)

Reader, Phil
It Is Not My Intention to be Captured. Phil Reader, 1991.
Copyright 1991 Phil Reader. Reproduced with the permission of Phil Reader. Photographs courtesy of Phil Reader.
Uncle Dave's Story: The Life of Ex-Slave Dave Boffman By Phil Reader For thirty-six years he lived quietly on a small homestead which was located atop a wooded hill at the end of Branciforte Drive in the Vine Hill district. When he died in 1893 he

Reader, Phil
It Is Not My Intention to be Captured. Phil Reader, 1995.
Copyright 1995 Phil Reader. Reproduced with permission of the author.
Harlots and Whorehouses: Stories of the World's Oldest Profession in 19th Century Santa Cruz County By Phil Reader Fallen Angels of Front Street Introduction Practitioners of the world's oldest profession have always been found on the streets

by scholars and poets and critics have been written about it by the score, and therefore nothing new need be expected here. A lamentable lack of knowledge seems to prevail amongst sonneteers and their readers about the form of the sonnet. The great English

The Remarkable Good Order of Santa Cruz (Item)

comment here, where they are taken as matters of course, but because they will help to eradicate from the Eastern reader's mind the absurd and unjust notion that the far West is "wild and woolly," that out here we go about with strange oaths in our mouths

Garfield Park, Santa Cruz, aka The Circles: Early History, 1889-1890 (Item)

in embryo. Mr. Abram T. King, who, as the readers of the SURF know, donated a part of the tract, has already received twenty-five applications for lots in his property outside the tract, the purchase conditional upon the establishment of the encampment. Mr

California facility. Included in the contributions of Isaac Blaisdell and Caleb Todd are a number of poems. Although the style and wording may appear antiquated to contemporary ears, they were typical of the poetry of that period. Readers also need

Great Register of the County of Santa Cruz, California, for 1890 (Item)

. African-Americans, based on the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1870, could vote. Phil Reader, historian of African-Americans of Santa Cruz County, wrote that: The 1870 Census enumerated 53 African Americans living in Santa Cruz

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