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Dec 16, 2012 · Four decades later, his collection of 800 maps, all showing California as an island, is making a splash in academia.
Nov 10, 2015 · Readers around the globe found an imaginative vision of Southern California in the fiction of Ross Macdonald. But Macdonald himself—by birth Kenneth Millar—was raised far from the promised glow of the Golden State, up north in frigid Canada.
Dec 23, 2012 · Maps drawn by the most learned cartographers showed it separated from the mainland by the Mare Vermiglio, or Red Sea. In 1971, maps of California as an island caught the attention of Glen McLaughlin, an American businessman, who began researching and collecting them.
Apr 18, 2014 · Maps in the 1500s depicted California as a peninsula, which is closer to the truth (the Baja peninsula extends roughly a 1,000 miles south from the present-day Golden State). Spanish...
MAPPING THE CALIFORNIA COAST THE VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY 1533-1543 by HARRY KELSEY* In October of 1 533 Hernan Cortes dispatched two ships to sail north along the coast of New Spain, looking for new discoveries. The ships became separated, but they nonetheless made important finds about the area that eventually became known as California. During ...
A brief history of the 21 missions in California built during 1769 -1833.
The following timeline traces the territorial evolution of California, the thirty-first state admitted to the United States of America, including the process of removing Indigenous Peoples from their native lands, or restricting them to reservations.
