PART I: PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1: Californians and their History: Myths and Realities

CHAPTER 2: The Natural Setting

CHAPTER 3: The Native Peoples

PART II: EUROPEANS AND INDIANS: THE CALIFORNIA EXPERIENCE

CHAPTER 4: Estanislao's Rebellion

CHAPTER 5: Explorers and Indians

CHAPTER 6: Spanish California

PART III: THE PASTORAL ERA

CHAPTER 7: The Bear Flag Revolt

CHAPTER 8: Mexican California

CHAPTER 9: Foreign Penetration of California

PART IV: GOLD AND THE AMERICANIZATION OF CALIFORNIA

CHAPTER 10: Dame Shirley: A Yankee Lady in the California Mines

CHAPTER 11: The New El Dorad

CHAPTER 12: The Thirty-First State

PART V: THE RAILROAD ERA

CHAPTER 13: Confrontation at Mussel Slough

CHAPTER 14: The Coming of the Railroad

CHAPTER 15: California's Railway Era: Economic Development and Social Unrest

PART VI: CALIFORNIA AND THE NATION, 1880-1920

CHAPTER 16: San Francisco's Blind Boss

CHAPTER 17: Beginnings of Modern California

CHAPTER 18: Progressive California

PART VII: BETWEEN THE WARS, 1920-1940

CHAPTER 19: Super Sister: Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles

CHAPTER 20: Prosperity and the Rise of Southern California

CHAPTER 21: The Depression Decade

PART VIII: WORLD WAR II AND POSTWAR EXPANSION

CHAPTER 22: A Question of Loyalty

CHAPTER 23: World War II: The Beginning of a New Era

CHAPTER 24: Amazing Growth: After World War II

PART IX: The 1960's and After

CHAPTER 25: Prologues to Violence: Genesis of a Ghetto

CHAPTER 26: Dreams Deferred: The 1960's

CHAPTER 27: Eras of Limits: Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, and After

Part X: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY: CRISIS IN THE MOST POPULOUS STATE

CHAPTER 28: Delta and the Peripheral Canal: California's Environmental Crisis in Microcosm

CHAPTER 29: California: Eden or Wasteland

CHAPTER 30: Challenges of Change