" Happy days in southern California (1898) opens with a history of the region, followed by chapters dealing with different lifestyles in the area: "seaside life" at Redondo, Santa Monica, and Santa Catalina, and the fish and animals of the ...
After writing The Jungle, a groundbreaking book that exposed harsh labor conditions, novelist Upton Sinclair was inspired by the 1920s Teapot Dome political scandal involving President Warren G. Harding’s administration and private oil ...
Something about the story tugged at her, and by January 2001, she was working inside the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department, given full cooperation and access to all pertinent records.