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Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights
Boyle Heights was one of the earliest residential areas outside of Los Angeles’s original pueblo. From the 1920s through the 1950s, it was the city’s most ethnically heterogeneous neighborhood with…
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Paso Robles
Halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the historic town of Paso Robles became known for its abundance of hot mineral springs that brought relief from pain—first for the Salinan…
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Profiting from the Peak
Colorado Springs, Colorado, has long profited from Pikes Peak and built an urban infrastructure to sustain that relationship. In Profiting from the Peak, geographer John Harner surveys the events and…
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San Francisco Bay Area Aviation
From hot-air balloons to jets, no other location has a more diverse aviation history than the San Francisco Bay Area. Aside from private and commercial airline operations, the area has…
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San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo has been a desirable place to live since 1847, when squatters built their cabins on the north side of San Lorenzo Creek, then part of two Mexican ranchos….
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Savage West
Thomas Savage (1915—2003) was one of the intermountain West’s best novelists. His thirteen novels received high critical praise, yet he remained largely unknown by readers. Although Savage spent much of…
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