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California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names, Fourth edition
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by Erwin G. Gudde
Sales Rank: 1333495
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List Price: $60.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 460 pages
Published by: University of California PressEdition: 1st Edition August 20, 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0520213165
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0520213166
Book Dimensions:
9.7 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 2.3 pounds
The Bloomsbury Review
"Western history buffs will enjoy this sizable guide to California place-names . . . . An up-to-date, authoritative, and interesting book."
Product Description
Absco, a Southern Pacific station, was coined in the 1920s from the name of the American Beet Sugar Company, which had a factory in Oxnard.
Pochea is an Indian village site in Riverside County, said to mean "where the rabbit went in."
Siskiyou was the Chinook word for 'bobtailed horse,' originally taken over from the Cree language. From Abadi Creek to Zzyzyx Spring, thousands of discoveries await the reader of California Place Names. This is the fourth edition, extensively revised and expanded, of a classic work of Californiana. The curious traveler or resident, as well as the serious student, will find a wealth of description and history in these names, as rich and various as the California landscape itself.
Like its predecessors, this edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. It has been updated to incorporate the latest research on California place names published by regional historians and to include new names that have been added to the California map since 1969. Readers will appreciate the local pronunciation of place names with unusual spellings; anyone curious about how to say La Jolla or Weitchpec can find the information here, in phonetic transcriptions. Finally, the many California place names of American Indian origin--such as Yreka, Shasta, Napa, Sonoma, Tamalpais, Yosemite, Lompoc, Mugu, Coachella, or Poway--receive particular attention from editor William Bright. The dictionary includes a Glossary and a Bibliography.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names (Paperback)
Erwin Gudde is actually a direct ancestor of mine, so I accquired this book so that my son may pass it on through the ages as a claim to fame if you will. The book was nicely done, and very informative.
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