Napa:: The Transformation of an American Town

by Lauren Coodley, Paula Amen Schmitt (With), Carol Kammen (Foreword by)

Overview

With roots set deep in California history, Napa's story reaches back to the Bear Flag Rebellion and earlier, to the first contact between Spanish explorers and the Wappo Indians. Through the founding of Spanish missions and the grants of ranchos by the Mexican government, Napa flourished under the various cultures that helped it become one of the west coast's most dynamic cities. As it bloomed into one of the most recognizable names on the American landscape, Napa's residents confronted issues of war and peace, of open space and sprawl.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439630655
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/12/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Lauren Coodley teaches at Napa's community college. She is the author of The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California and California: a Multicultural Documentary History. Paula Amen Schmitt grew up on Hoffman Avenue in Napa. A musician, counselor, and poetry teacher, she is now a freelance writer and editor.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Carol Kammen     vii
Acknowledgments     x
Introduction     xi
The Water-Going-Out-Place People: 20,000 B.C.-1768 A.D.     15
Requerimiento, or Task of Conversion: 1769-1850     21
"The March of Civilization": 1850-1870     30
Chinese Bands and Asylum Orchards: 1870-1900     39
"Young Man, Come West to Napa to Start a Factory": 1900-1915     48
Boysenberries and Baseball Gloves: 1915-1930     57
The Dream Bowl and Shipyard Acres: 1930-1950     67
Civil Rights and Sidewalk Days: 1950-1970     132
"Like David Slaying Goliath": 1970-1990     148
The River of Change: 1990-2004     166
Epilogue     176
Index     185