Keith Vosburg

Azusa

• Author(s): Jeffrey Lawrence Cornejo

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2007
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• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

If Azusa lived up to the reputation aggrandized from the glib assessment that it was the city with "everything from A to Z in the U.S.A.," no one would want to live anywhere else. Hyperbole aside, many Azusa residents love the place just as it is. This vibrant city grew from a citrus town to a bustling suburb nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Also known as the "Canyon City" on the banks of the San Gabriel River, Azusa initially was a village of the Gabrieleno tribe before becoming Henry Dalton's Rancho Azusa during rule by Spain and later Mexico, and continued to grow during California's fledgling era of U.S. statehood. Founded by Los Angeles banker Jonathan Sayer Slauson in 1887 as a stop on the Santa Fe Railroad, the city was incorporated in 1898.

Octopus's Garden

• Author(s): Benjamin T. Jenkins

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2023-07-10
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• Publisher: University Press of Kansas

As Southern California recovered from the collapse of the cattle industry in the 1860s, the arrival of railroads—attacked by newspapers as the greedy “octopus”—and the expansion of citrus agriculture transformed the struggling region into a vast, idealized, and prosperous garden. New groves of the latest citrus varieties and new towns like Riverside quickly grew directly along the tracks of transcontinental railroads. The influx of capital, industrial technology, and workers, especially people of color, energized Southern California and tied it more closely to the economy and culture of the United States than ever before. Benjamin Jenkins’s Octopus’s Garden argues that citrus agr...

Man and His Habitat

• Author(s): Ronald Hull Buchanan, Emrys Jones, Desmond McCourt

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1971
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• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books

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A Handbook of Private Schools for American Boys and Girls

• Categories: Private schools

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1950
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• Publisher: Unknown

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California. Court of Appeal (4th Appellate District). Division 2. Records and Briefs

• Author(s): California (State).

• Categories: Law

• Type: Book
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• Published: Unknown
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• Publisher: Unknown

Received document entitled: APPELLANT'S SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF