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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

Institutions in Santa Cruz County, 1850-1950 (Item)

, the first one room school house in the city was built in 1857 when a $400 lot was purchased by community subscription on Mission Hill. Other accounts, including those by researcher Phil Reader and University of California Santa Cruz librarian Donald Clark

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

Reader, Phil
Copyright 1995 Phil Reader. Reproduced with permission of the author.
A Brief History of the Pajaro Property Protective Society: Vigilantism in the Pajaro Valley During 19th Century By Phil Reader PART I INTRODUCTION "No arrests: for nobody cares." "Horse Stealing - Hardly a night passes in Pajaro that horse thieves

, Santa Cruz-Italian Relocation and Restrictions, During World War II by Geoffrey Dunn 82 The Tales of Old Mother Chapar by Phil Reader 91 Photo Essay: Ephemeral Features -West Cliff Drive Photo Parade by Frank Perry 99 Ode to the Natural Bridges State

Stone Industry: Crushed Rock, Sand and Gravel [1943] (Item)

by only a few hundred yards, and resembles the latter workings in so many respects (products, capacity, methods, plant, number of men employed, and others) that only some of the major differences will be listed here and the reader is referred for details

Chronological List of Santa Cruz County Public Schools (Item)

Koch. Used with permission.] The following list is an attempt to give the reader an idea of the chronology of public schools that have existed within the county's school system since its inception in the 1850s to the present (1978). The main reference

Leather with Personality (Item)

the palm reader's clairvoyance in reverse, can study the lines and markings on a cowhide as it comes from the tanning vats and reconstruct much of the life history of the animal. The symbols burned deep in the flank or the shoulder he would recognize

Voters' Poll List of 1850, Santa Cruz County, California (Item)

Judicial District, and one Town Councilman." Note: While Harrison does not provide the results of the election, the Sentinel article does. It follows at the end of this compilation.] Readers also may wish to use other Poll Lists, see Stevens (cited below

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