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The man from the Rio Grande : a biography of Harry Love, leader of the California rangers who tracked down Joaquâin Murrieta / by William B. Secrest.
LIBRA F786.L85 S43 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Secrest, William B., 1930-
- Series:
- Western frontiersmen series ; 32.
- Western frontiersmen series ; 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love, Harry, 1810-1868.
- Love, Harry.
- Pioneers--Southwest, New--Biography.
- Pioneers.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Soldiers.
- New Southwest.
- California--Santa Cruz Region.
- California.
- Soldiers--Southwest, New--Biography.
- Soldiers--California--Biography.
- Murieta, Joaquâin, -1853--Adversaries.
- Murieta, Joaquâin.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New.
- Explorers--Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Pioneers--California--Santa Cruz Region--Biography.
- Frontier and pioneer life--California--Santa Cruz Region.
- Santa Cruz Region (Calif.)--Biography.
- Santa Cruz Region (Calif.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Spokane, WA : Arthur H. Clark Co., 2005.
- Summary:
- For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
- Contents:
- The wolf
- The road to Camargo
- On the Rio Grande
- Sonora
- California calls
- Ruddle
- Los Angeles
- Death in the mines
- Ranger days
- The long trail to Cantua Creek
- Heads you win
- Mary
- A place called Zayante
- Byrnes
- The violent land
- Santa Cruz
- Flash floods and fierce fires
- The end.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0870623281
- 9780870623288
- OCLC:
- 56591446
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