About this title: Well received by critics when first published in 1941. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills describes Southern California in its transition from a cattle frontier of Mexican rule and culture to an agricultural American community on the eve of great industrial and urban expansion. The story includes the conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and ...
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 381 p. Contains: Illustrations. Huntington Library Publications. Audience: General/trade. 5TH PRINTING 1990-Minor shelf and edge wear, no markings or highlighting. Cover has some scuffing and minor scratches. A tiny stain of unknown origin is present on the first title page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
Date Published: 1-1-90
ISBN-13:9780873280068ISBN:0873280067
Description: VERY GOOD. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the dust jacket and a publisher's mark to one edge-Nice! 2 lbs. read more
Edition: 2d ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Huntington Library, San Marino
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Price clipped. Tear on hinge. Tears on dj. Edge wear and browning. Stains on front dj. 365 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Huntington Library publications.. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 339-349. read more
Binding: H Hardcover
Publisher: Huntington Library Pr, San Marino, California, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780873280068ISBN:0873280067
Description: As New in J Very Good jacket. Aside from some edge wear and a small 1/4 inch closed tear to the DJ, difficult to discern through its mylar protector, this book is in top shape. It is square and solidly bound. It's tight, free of markings and evidently unread. It sports an uncreased, unclipped, Brodart protected dustjacket, just as lustrous as ever. Fully illustrated throughout--you'll shimmy enthusiastically when this book arrives! ! ! read more
Edition: 2d ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Huntington Library, San Marino
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good in Good jacket. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. 365 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Huntington Library publications. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 339-349. (California) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Huntington Library, San Marino
Date Published: 1941
ISBN-13:9780873280068ISBN:0873280067
Description: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Ex-University Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1941 First Edition. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Hard Cover/No Dust Jacket. Scarce first edition. Ex-University library with usual adornments, else in nice condition. Previous owners name on endpaper. Pages clean, binding tight, hinges fine, covers clean, light bumping on corners, 365 pages. Deals with the colorful and dramatic period in the history of Southern California when the region ceased to be ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Huntingdon Library., San Marino, California.
Date Published: 1951
Description: With Dustwrapper jacket. Second edition. Octavo (9.25in x 6.5in) red cloth with gilt titling to spine. xvi, 365pp. 20 illustrations. Front endpapers partially toned. Small residual tape mark to both pastedowns, else a clean copy that is in Vg condition in a dustwrapper that is moderately worn and is creased to the top edge. An evocative description of the transition of California from an isolated cattle frontier to an urban community, with the gradual displacement of frontier violence and ... read more
Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Hardbound.
Publisher: Huntington Library San Marin, San Marino, CA.
Date Published: 1951
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Maroon cloth with gilt titles and design on spine. Original green paper unclipped mylar protected dust jacket showing orig. price $5.00. 365pgs. 20 illustrations. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Former owner's bookplate. read more
Edition: 4th Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Huntington Library Pr, San Marino, California, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780873280976ISBN:0873280970
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 9 1/4. Hardcover. Minor edgewear. (Southern Calif-lime green/black letters) Well received by critics when first published in 1941, The Cattle on a Thousand Hills describes Southern California in its transition from a cattle frontier of Mexican rule and culture to an agricultural American community on the eve of great industrial and urban expansion. The story includes the conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and settlements, the gradual displacement of ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIB
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780873280976ISBN:0873280970
Description: New. REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION: "The Cattle on a Thousand Hills is without peer as a broad, rich, specific, and authenticated description of southern California in transition....Professor Cleland's book is written with a great deal of charm and is... read more
Description: Good. 0873280067 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Edition: Second edition, revised.
Binding: Hardcover.
Publisher: Huntington Library,, San Marino, CA;
Date Published: 1951
Description: Deals with the colorful and dramatic period in the history of Southern California when the region ceased to be an isolated cattle frontier and began to assume the characteristics of an urban community. The book is chiefly concerned with the impact of Anglo-Saxon customs and institutions upon the pastoral life of the Spanish-Californians, with the conversion of great grazing ranchos into farms and settlements, and with the gradual displacement of frontier violence and instability by a more ... read more
"I just finished reading The Cattle On a Thousand Hills, finding it very interesting historically. I am a Southern California history addict (Ventura County) and found this to fill in information where some other history accounts left off or omitted altogether. The period of the book is during the time my family first came to Ojai. The information on banditoes in the "Crime and Justice in the Frontier" was particularly intriguing."
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