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West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
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Product Description: Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, “When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West,” and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world...read more
By Mark Arax
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9781586483906 | 1 edition (Public Affairs, April 13, 2009), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, “When I am in California, I am not in the West.

The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
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Uses interviews, archival documents, court filings, and published sources to present the story of the Boswell family, detailing how they created a farming empire which owned more agricultural acreage and controlled more river water than any other single land owner in the West.
By Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman
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9781586480288 | 1 edition (Public Affairs, October 1, 2003), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Uses interviews, archival documents, court filings, and published sources to present the story of the Boswell family, detailing how they created a farming empire which owned more agricultural acreage and controlled more river water than any other single land owner in the West.

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9781586482817 | Public Affairs, February 15, 2005, cover price $21.99

My California: Journeys by Great Writers
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Product Description: Fly-fish the pristine waters of the Owens River. Step up to the microphone in a California honky-tonk. Surf the biggest waves California has ever seen. Mingle with ducks in an urban oasis. Roller skate through L.A.'s Union Station...read more
By Mark Arax (editor), Aimee Liu (contributor), Mary MacKey (contributor), T. Jefferson Parker (contributor), Hector Tobar (contributor) and Donna Wares (editor)
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9781883318437 | Angel City Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Fly-fish the pristine waters of the Owens River.

In My Father's Name: A Family, a Town, a Murder
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The author recounts the events that transpired twenty years after his father's unsolved murder, during which he returned to Fresno under an assumed name and uncovered the startling disclosure that preceded his father's death. Reprint. NYT.
By Mark Arax
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9780684808451 | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A 'Los Angeles Times' reporter recounts his twenty-two-year search for the truth behind his father's murder, an event that devastated his childhood and eventually revealed startling truths

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9780671010027 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1997, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A Los Angeles Times reporter recounts his twenty-two-year search for the truth behind his father's murder, an event that devastated his childhood and eventually revealed startling truths

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