Los Angeles: A Profile (Centers of Civilization)

Robinson, W.W.

University of Oklahoma Press

<p>Revised edition, 1981, first printing, a like-new, unread, unworn, unopened, unmarked trade softcover, from Chronicle Books. By W. W. Robinson. Revised with an introduction by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. 128 pages. History. The romantic origins of a great metropolis... ISBN 0-87701-242-3.</p>

Los Angeles from the Days of the Pueblo

Travel

United States

California Historical Society

<p>A complete collection of the eighteen concise historical booklets on Southern California places, communities, and counties that were written by Robinson and published by his employer, Title Insurance and Trust Corporation. Eloquently written with a title researcher's scrupulous attention to historical detail, these booklets continue to be informative and factual guides to the history of their regions. The locales anthologized herein are are: Beverly Hills, Culver City, Glendale, Inglewood, Long Beach, Monrovia, Pasadena, Pomona, San Fernando Valley, San Pedro and Wilmington, Santa Monica, Whittier, Angeles National Forest, Santa Catalina, Riverside County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, and Ventura County</p>

Southern California Local History a Gathering of the Writings of W.W. Robinson

Historical Society of Southern

2014 Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Because California ranks as the nation's leading agricultural state and one of the world's top industrial regions, it is fitting that this groundbreaking book on California land history should be reissued. First published in 1948, this unrevised paperback edition tells the story of how Indian lands became Franciscan missions and Californio ranchos and how various legal and extra-legal devices of the United States encouraged private American ownership of these lands after the Mexican-American War. The strength of the book derives from the author's ability to accomplish the goals he establishes in the subtitle: to tell the story of mission lands, ranchos, squatters, mining claims, railroad grants, land scrip, and homesteads. The author is gifted with the talent to unravel these developments in the style of a storyteller. For example, Robinson first describes California's early Spanish land laws and institutions, then selects San Pascual (Pasadena) as their archetype, and narrates the area's land history. After further discussing changes in land institutions and laws that followed the Mexican-American War, Robinson profiles San Francisco and Los Angeles as prototypes of such changes. Contents include: I. Whose California? II. First Owners III. Missionary Empire IV. Four Square Leagues V. First Rancheros VI. Gifts of Land VII. Chain of Title VIII. The Land Commission IX. Shotgun Titles X. Titles in El Dorado XI. Land Grants to Railroads XII. Land for Settlers XIII. Land Scrip XIV. The State as Owner XV. Buying and Selling California XVI. Insurance of Title XVII. Title Story of Two Cities Appendix Bibliography Index

Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads

History

Americas

Martino Fine Books

When he died in 1946, Flight Lieutenant Jack Mossop left behind a widow and child, a chest full of medals, and a diary. He was 25 years old. The diary gave tantalizing glimpses of his career; sixty years on, his son has uncovered the truth. It is the story of an ordinary Durham lad called upon to perform extraordinary deeds. Serving initially as a Wireless Operator in 49 Squadron, he progressed to 76 Squadron under the legendary Leonard Cheshire, and finished as a Deputy Master Bomber with the elite Pathfinder Group in 35 Squadron. To complete even one tour of duty was against the odds. To complete a second and then to volunteer for a third was nigh-on incredible. Small wonder that one of his crewmates called him 'The bravest man I ever knew'. It is all the more tragic that he died a civilian's death on board a BOAC Lancastrian after the war, in suspicious circumstances, which attracted the attention of the Prime Minister himself. Jack saw most of the great actions of Bomber Command, from the 1,000 bomber raids of 1942, to the Battles of the Ruhr and Berlin in 1943, and the daylight operations of Normandy before and after D-Day. His story stands as a microcosm of the entire bomber campaign. Bill Robinson's account is a fascinating and stirring account of courage in war: a tribute not only to one man's courage, but also to the courage of the nameless thousands whose stories will now never be told.

Pathfinder's Story: The Life and Death of Flight Lieutenant Jack Mossop DFC* DFM

Biographies & Memoirs

Pen and Sword Aviation

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