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Time Line for the Establishment of the Pueblo de Branciforte (Item)

Reader, Phil
Copyright 1996 Phil Reader. Reproduced with the permission of the author.
Time Line for the Establishment of the Pueblo de Branciforte By Phil Reader 1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and Bartolome Ferrelo, flying the flag of Spain, explore the west coast of North America. 1565 The Crown-sponsored Manila Galleons, from New

G. Brett Lytle, Professor of Languages (Item)

Reader, Phil
Copyright 1991 Phil Reader. Reproduced by permission of the author. Photograph courtesy of Phil Reader.
G. Brett Lytle, Professor of Languages By Phil Reader The comic opera bandit, Dick Fellows, holds a special place in the literature of California outlawry, nay, American outlawry. The uniqueness of his position can be summed up in one word

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

Anthony Azoff and the Murder of Detective Len Harris (Item)

Reader, Phil
Photograph courtesy of Phil Reader.
Copyright 1991 Phil Reader. Reproduced by permission of Phil Reader.
Anthony Azoff and the Murder of Detective Len Harris By Phil Reader Being an account of the attempted robbery of the Wells-Fargo Express Office in Boulder Creek, and the subsequent killing of Southern Pacific Detective Len Harris. Introduction

"Charole": The Life of Branciforte Bandido Faustino Lorenzana (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.
"Charole": The Life of Branciforte Bandido Faustino Lorenzana By Phil Reader Part I In 1885 a reporter for the Santa Cruz Sentinel asked ex-sheriff Charlie Lincoln who was the most notorious character that he had encountered during his tenure

. “Executive Order 9066 and the Residents of Santa Cruz County.” https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134536#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0 1 Reader, Phil. “To Know My Name: A chronological history of African-Americans in Santa Cruz County.” https

Oscar Thomas "O.T." Jackson (Item)

Reader, Phil
Copyright 1996 Phil Reader. Reproduced with the permission of the author. Photograph courtesy of the Northern California Center for Afro American History and Life.
Oscar Thomas "O.T." Jackson By Phil Reader As a young man, he had cut hair for a number of years at a small barber shop in the farming community of Watsonville, California. As an old man, he cut hair at a shaving parlor on Railroad Avenue

Reader, Phil
It Is Not My Intention to be Captured. Phil Reader, 1991.
Copyright 1991 Phil Reader. Reproduced with the permission of Phil Reader.
Copperheads, Secesh Men, and Confederate Guerillas: Pro-Confederate Activities in Santa Cruz County during the Civil War By Phil Reader PART I INTRODUCTION The secessionist movement and the civil war that followed divided not only the United states

Compiled, and with an introduction, by Phil Reader
Reader, Phil
Copyright 1993 Phil Reader. Text and photographs reproduced with the permission of Phil Reader.
Voices of the Heart: Memorial Poems from the Diphtheria Epidemic of 1876-78 By Phil Reader (Compiled, and with an introduction, by Phil Reader) To the memory of Miss Cora E. Drew (1864-1877) I first met Cora on a dark, rainy night during the month

Reader, Phil
Copyright 1995 Phil Reader. Reproduced with permission of the author. Photographs courtesy of Phil Reader.
To Know My Name: A Chronological History of African Americans in Santa Cruz County By Phil Reader In Memoriam for Helen Weston From her friends, The Phil Reader family PREFACE Sailors of African ancestry were crew members aboard most of the vessels

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