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Tables of Contents for The Literature of California
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xix
General Introduction
1
14
PART ONE INDIAN BEGINNINGS
15
54
Origins and the Way of the World
23
16
The Creation (Maidu)
23
12
The Creation: Turtle Island (Maidu)
35
1
Origin of the Mountains (Yokuts)
36
1
The Three Worlds (Chumash)
37
1
The Making of Man (Chumash)
37
1
Initiation Song (Yuki)
37
1
Cottontail and the Sun (Owens Valley Paiute)
38
1
Love, Marriage, Family
39
17
Puberty Dance Song (Wintu)
39
1
Three Love Songs (Wintu)
39
1
About-the-House Girl (Karok)
40
10
The Girl Who Married Rattlesnake (Pomo)
50
1
The Man and the Owls (Yokuts)
51
1
Coyote Cooks His Daughter (Cupeno)
52
4
Order, Community
56
3
An Ordered World (Miwok)
56
1
Prayer for Good Fortune (Yokuts)
56
1
Feast Oration (Wintu)
56
3
Chants, Dreams, and Dances
59
3
To the Edge of the Earth (Wintu)
59
1
Rattlesnake Ceremony Song (Yokuts)
59
1
Dream Time (Ohlone)
60
1
Four Dream Cult Songs (Wintu)
60
1
Dancing on the Brink of the World (Costanoan)
61
1
Old Age, Death, and the Afterlife
62
7
Old Gambler's Song (Konkow)
62
1
Grandfather's Prayer (Wintu)
62
1
Death Song (Cupeno)
63
1
Burial Oration (Wintu)
63
1
The Soul's Journey to Similaqsa (Chumash)
63
2
The Land of the Dead (Serrano)
65
2
Summons to a Mourning Ceremony (Miwok)
67
2
PART TWO ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST, 769--1870
69
124
Garci Rodriguez Ordonez De Montalvo
76
2
``The Queen of California'' from Las Sergas de Esplandian (c. 1510)
76
2
Fray Juan Crespi
78
3
``The Naming of Santa Ana and Los Angeles'' from Fray Juan Crespi: Missionary Explorer of the Pacific Coast (1769)
78
3
Pedro Fages
81
5
``Report to the Viceroy'' from A Historical, Political, and Natural Description of California (1773)
81
5
Jean Francois De Galoup De La Perouse
86
5
``A Visit to Carmel'' from Voyage autour du Monde (1786)
86
5
Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov
91
7
A Letter to the Minister of Commerce (1806)
91
7
Jedediah Strong Smith
98
5
``The Trapper and the Padre'' from The Southwest Expeditions of Jedediah S. Smith: His Personal Account of the Journey to California (1826)
98
5
Pablo Tac
103
5
``Our Games and Dances'' from Conversion of the San Luisenos of Alta California (c. 1835)
103
5
Richard Henry Dana
108
8
``Haole and Kanaka'' from Two Years before the Mast (1840)
108
8
John Charles Fremont
116
5
``Some Points in Geography'' from Report of the Exploring Mission to Oregon and North California (1845)
116
5
Lansford Hastings
121
2
From The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (1845)
121
2
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
123
6
``The Bear Flag Party'' from Recuerdos Historicos y Personales Tocante a la Alta California (1846)
123
6
Edwin Bryant
129
7
``The California Battalion'' from What I Saw in California (1846)
129
7
Sarah Eleanor Royce
136
5
From A Frontier Lady (1849)
136
5
Bayard Taylor
141
7
``San Francisco by Day and Night'' from El Dorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire (1849)
141
7
Louise Clappe [Dame Shirley]
148
9
``A Trip into the Mines'' from The Shirley Letters (1852)
148
9
Eliza W. B. Farnham
157
6
From California In-Doors and Out (1856)
157
6
John Rollin Ridge [Yellow Bird]
163
8
From The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854)
163
8
T'tcetsa [Lucy Young]
171
9
``Lucy's Story'' from Out of the Past: A True Indian Story (c. 1862)
171
9
William Henry Brewer
180
4
``Los Angeles and Environs'' from Up and Down California, 1860-64 (1864)
180
4
Clarence King
184
9
``Mount Shasta'' from Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1872)
184
9
PART THREE THE RISE OF A CALIFORNIA LITERATURE, 1865--1914
193
198
Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain]
206
10
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867)
206
5
From Roughing It (1872)
211
5
Bret Harte
216
10
The Outcasts of Poker Flats (1869)
216
10
Charles Warren Stoddard
226
2
Old Monterey (c. 1870)
226
2
Ina Coolbrith
228
4
Copa de Oro (The California Poppy)
228
1
The Mariposa Lily
229
1
Millennium
229
1
Retrospect (In Los Angeles) (c. 1880)
230
2
Joaquin Miller
232
3
``Californian'' from Songs of the Sierra (1872)
232
3
Ambrose Bierce
235
9
Moxon's Master (1893)
235
9
Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton
244
10
From The Squatter and the Don (1885)
244
10
Thocmetony [Sarah Winnemucca]
254
8
From Life among the Piutes (1883)
254
8
Robert Louis Stevenson
262
7
From The Silverado Squatters (1883)
262
7
Helen Hunt Jackson
269
10
From Ramona (1884)
269
10
Josiah Royce
279
8
From California: A Study of American Character (1886)
279
8
Mary Hallock Foote
287
7
How the Pump Stopped at the Morning Watch (c. 1890)
287
7
Edwin Markham
294
4
The Man with the Hoe (1899)
294
2
The Sower (1901)
296
2
John Muir
298
10
From The Mountains of California (1894)
298
10
George Sterling
308
3
Beyond the Breakers
308
2
The Black Vulture (c. 1900)
310
1
Gertrude Atherton
311
10
From The Californians (1898)
311
10
Edith Maud Eaton [Sui Sin Far]
321
9
In the Land of the Free (1912)
321
9
Yone Noguchi
330
9
Some Stories of My Western Life
330
7
Ah, Who Says So?
337
1
My Poetry (1897)
338
1
Charles Fletcher Lummis
339
8
``Walking to Los Angeles'' from ``As I Remember'' (unpublished ms., c. 1910)
339
8
L. Frank Baum
347
7
From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
347
7
Anonymous Chinese Immigrants
354
2
Four Poems of Angel Island and Chinatown (c. 1910-1940)
354
2
Jack London
356
16
From Martin Eden (1908)
356
16
Frank Norris
372
12
From The Octopus (1901)
372
12
Mary Austin
384
7
From The Land of Little Rain (1903)
384
7
PART FOUR DREAMS AND AWAKENINGS, 1915--1945
391
232
Robinson Jeffers
407
7
Continent's End
408
1
To the Stone Cutters
409
1
Tor House
409
1
Hurt Hawks
410
1
Rock and Hawk
411
1
The Purse-Seine
411
2
Carmel Point (c. 1924-1934)
413
1
Jaime De Angulo
414
8
From Indians in Overalls (1950)
414
8
Upton Sinclair
422
7
From Oil! (1927)
422
7
Dashiell Hammett
429
8
From The Maltese Falcon (1930)
429
8
Wallace Thurman
437
10
From The Blacker the Berry (1929)
437
10
Yvor Winters
447
6
See Los Angeles First
447
1
The Slow Pacific Swell
448
1
John Sutter
449
1
Moonlight Alert
450
1
The California Oaks (c. 1920-1939)
451
2
James M. Cain
453
7
From The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
453
7
William Saroyan
460
11
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
460
5
From Quarter, Half, Three-Quarter and Whole Notes (1936)
465
6
Horace Mccoy
471
9
From They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935)
471
9
George R. Stewart
480
10
From Ordeal by Hunger (1936)
480
10
John Steinbeck
490
16
From The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
490
16
Carey Mcwilliams
506
10
From Factories in the Field (1939)
506
10
Hildegarde Flanner
516
4
Noon on Alameda Street
516
1
12 O'Clock Freight
517
1
Lava Has Meaning
518
1
The Buck
518
1
Hawk Is a Woman (c. 1929-1939)
519
1
Josephine Miles
520
4
Tehachapi South
520
1
The Directors
521
1
Now That April's Here
521
1
City
522
1
Subdivision (c. 1935-1939)
522
2
John Fante
524
9
From Ask the Dust (1939)
524
9
Raymond Chandler
533
10
From The Big Sleep (1939)
533
10
Nathanael West
543
11
From The Day of the Locust (1939)
543
11
F. Scott Fitzgerald
554
11
From The Love of the Last Tycoon ([1941]1994)
554
11
M. F. K. FISHER
565
10
The First Oyster (1943)
565
10
Idwal Jones
575
8
From The Vineyard (1942)
575
8
Toshio Mori
583
10
The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts
583
3
The Eggs of the World
586
3
He Who Has the Laughing Face (1949)
589
4
Jade Snow Wong
593
11
From Fifth Chinese Daughter (1950)
593
11
Carlos Bulosan
604
7
From America Is in the Heart (1946)
604
7
Chester Himes
611
12
From If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945)
611
12
Further Reading
623
2
About the Editors
625
2
Permissions and Credits
627
4
Index of Authors and Titles
631