California Ranchos, Second Edition (Stokvis Studies in Historical Chronology and Thought) - Hardcover

Shumway, Burgess McK.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809501066 ISBN 13: 9780809501069

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2006

Synopsis

California Ranchos is a thorough reworking of a 1942 WPA project, listing the land grants issued during the Spanish and Mexican periods of California history. Entries include: rancho name, record number, present-day county, area of grant, grant date, recipient(s), acreage, new patent date, new recipients' names, and location. Entries are arranged by county and rancho name. Several comprehensive indexes make the material completely accessible. The first place to go for research into California land holdings.

About this title

Synopsis

The original volume from which this book is taken, Burgess McK. Shumway's "Ranchos of California: Patented Private Land Grants Listed by County," was one of a series of noteworthy research projects produced by the Federal Writ-ers Project of the Works Project Administration. The WPA was a Depression-era attempt by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide paying jobs for the nation's unemployed workers, including out-of-work artists, writers, and other creative individuals. The FWP took these unemployed authors and set them to producing state and city travel guides, county records manuals, census indexes, local and regional histories, and a great many other projects of interest to the historian and researcher. Regrettably, many of the projected series were never finished, having been terminated with the outset of World War II. Also unfortunately, more than half of the books which did appear were published in mimeographed form only, in editions of no more than 250 copies, with poor typography (often typed copy), inferior paper, and cheap bindings. Few copies survive today, and most of these are brittle, faded, and difficult to read.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809501066
• ISBN 13: 9780809501069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Burgess Michael, Burgess Mary Wickizer