Gordon Morris Bakken is Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton.

• Contributors viiPreface ixChapter One Managing the Gold Rush: California Indians and California History 1Lisa E. EmmerichChapter Two Wagon Wheels West: Trailblazers and Settlers in Mexican California 22Ronald C. WoolseyChapter Three L.A. behind Bars, 1847-1886: Establishing a Secure Institution 42John Joseph StanleyChapter Four Weather and History: The Climate of Nineteenth-Century Southern California 63Wayne N. EngstromChapter Five The Limits of Patriarchy: The "Unwritten Law" in California Legal History 84Gordon Morris BakkenChapter Six Educational Housekeepers: Female Reformers and the California Americanization Program, 1900-1927 108Danelle MoonChapter Seven Black Faces for Black Audiences: The Lincoln Motion Picture Company of Los Angeles 125John AndersonChapter Eight Stigmatizing Okies 146Nancy J. TaniguchiChapter Nine The Los Angeles Zoot-Suit Riots: Latin American Responds 173Ricardo Griswold del CastilloChapter Ten Vintibusiness California Style: The Wine Industry, 1769 to the Present 191Victor W. GeraciIndex 211

Gordon Morris Bakken is Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton.

• Contributors viiPreface ixChapter One Managing the Gold Rush: California Indians and California History 1Lisa E. EmmerichChapter Two Wagon Wheels West: Trailblazers and Settlers in Mexican California 22Ronald C. WoolseyChapter Three L.A. behind Bars, 1847-1886: Establishing a Secure Institution 42John Joseph StanleyChapter Four Weather and History: The Climate of Nineteenth-Century Southern California 63Wayne N. EngstromChapter Five The Limits of Patriarchy: The "Unwritten Law" in California Legal History 84Gordon Morris BakkenChapter Six Educational Housekeepers: Female Reformers and the California Americanization Program, 1900-1927 108Danelle MoonChapter Seven Black Faces for Black Audiences: The Lincoln Motion Picture Company of Los Angeles 125John AndersonChapter Eight Stigmatizing Okies 146Nancy J. TaniguchiChapter Nine The Los Angeles Zoot-Suit Riots: Latin American Responds 173Ricardo Griswold del CastilloChapter Ten Vintibusiness California Style: The Wine Industry, 1769 to the Present 191Victor W. GeraciIndex 211