Motorcycling in the Northern San Joaquin Valley
Book to be Released January 30 Book preview – Yep, my buddy Stewart and I made a book. We worked for five years on this
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January 27, 2023
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Imagining the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
An Anthology of Voices Across Centuries — book review by David Stuart Imagining the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta: An Anthology of Voices Across Centuries by
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November 22, 2022
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Refuge and Resistance
Delta Indigenous Nations Helped Shape California Colonial History The Indigenous nations of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region significantly affected European and American colonial history in
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September 22, 2022
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Paradise Lost
An Indigenous History Timeline for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta For thousands of years, Indigenous people lived in the heartland of California, where the Sacramento Valley
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June 25, 2021
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Deep History of the Delta
Clarksburg is a picturesque Delta village on the Sacramento River, about 15 miles downriver (south) from the Sacramento waterfront. It nestles on the west (Yolo
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October 24, 2020
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Chin Lung and the Great Western Potato Mart
GEORGE SHIMA, THE JAPANESE IMMIGRANT who became known as the “Potato King” of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta was profiled in a prior Soundings Magazine article
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May 7, 2020
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George Shima
The Well-known “Potato King” and Japanese Leader In the 1920s, Shima had to dismantle his farming empire due to the Alien Land Laws. He then
David Stuart
February 12, 2020
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Kango Mitori: Japanese Truck Farmer
Part Two In Part One, we introduced Japanese immigrant Kango Mitori and followed his family through their establishment in 1931 of a small “truck patch”
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November 22, 2019
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Kango Mitori: Japanese Truck Farmer
Part One In 1990, the San Joaquin County Historical Society printed a booklet, written by Chiyo Mitori Shimamoto, called To the Land of Bright Promise:
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November 19, 2019
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Robert G. LeTourneau
Stocktonian Was the Greatest Inventor of Earthmoving Equipment Abraham Grunauer’s Whitehall Ranch near Tracy hired Robert G. LeTourneau (1888-1969) in 1919 to repair its old
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October 25, 2019
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