California Myths and Legends

The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries, Second Edition

Ray Jones - Contributions by Joe Lubow

Are the Santa Lucia Mountains really inhabited by shadowy Dark Watchers? Is the labyrinthine Winchester House still inhabited by the reclusive widow who masterminded its construction? And how did a sewing machine salesman make good on his promise to end a terrible drought in Southern California? From Mount Shasta’s legendary Lemurians to battles with alien spacecraft, California Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Golden State’s most fascinating and compelling stories. « less more »

Globe Pequot

Pages: 200 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4930-4029-2 • Paperback • May 2020 • $18.95 • (£12.95)

978-1-4930-4030-8 • eBook • May 2020 • $18.00 • (£11.95) (coming soon)

Series: Myths and Mysteries Series

Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), History / General, History / United States / General, Social Science / Folklore & Mythology

California Myths and Legends

The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries, Second Edition

Paperback

Summary

Are the Santa Lucia Mountains really inhabited by shadowy Dark Watchers? Is the labyrinthine Winchester House still inhabited by the reclusive widow who masterminded its construction? And how did a sewing machine salesman make good on his promise to end a terrible drought in Southern California? From Mount Shasta’s legendary Lemurians to battles with alien spacecraft, California Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Golden State’s most fascinating and compelling stories.

Details

Globe Pequot

Pages: 200 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-4930-4029-2 • Paperback • May 2020 • $18.95 • (£12.95)

978-1-4930-4030-8 • eBook • May 2020 • $18.00 • (£11.95) (coming soon)

Series: Myths and Mysteries Series

Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), History / General, History / United States / General, Social Science / Folklore & Mythology

Author

Ray Jones is a historian, author, and publishing consultant living in Pebble Beach, California. He has written more than thirty books, including Niagara Falls: An Intimate Portrait and his award-winning Lighthouse Encyclopedia, both published by Globe Pequot Press. Joe Lubow, formerly Merrill College Librarian and Fellow at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has been an editor and author for more than thirty-five years.

Features

Experience California's most eerie occurences, spooky events, unsolved mysteries, and myths and legends related and debunked.

[Setting] -
California

California Myths and Legends

The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries, Second Edition

Ray Jones - Contributions by Joe Lubow

California Myths and Legends

The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries, Second Edition

ALSO AVAILABLE