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Old Soldiers: Santa Cruz County Civil War Veterans, by
Robert L. Nelson
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On Location in Santa Cruz County, by
Ann Young
On Location in Santa Cruz County is an extensive list of films shot entirely or partially in Santa Cruz County, ... [Read more]
On Location in Santa Cruz County - Bibliography, by
Ann Young
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Bret Harte in "The Movies", by
Josephine Clifford McCrackin
Among the most sacredly guarded of my few treasures are two bound volumes of the Overland Monthly, the magazine that ... [Read more]
On Location in Santa Cruz, by
Lisa Jensen
With Jane Seymour in the foreground, it's hard to pay attention to the background. But those of you who were ... [Read more]
For almost a score of years the town had slumbered in obscurity--and blessed contentment. Some time before that, it had ... [Read more]
ZaSu Pitts: Actress 1898-1963, by
Barbara Giffen
A career actress who successfully made the transition from silent movies to talking pictures to television, ZaSu Pitts appeared in ... [Read more]
ZaSu Pitts grew up in Santa Cruz. In her book, "Candy Hits" she recalled... [Read more]
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The Great White Fleet, so-called because the ships were painted white, was a United States naval force of 16,000 men on sixteen battleships, 6 torpedo boats, a hospital ship, and a supply ship. It began a 14-month world cruise in 1907 to prove that the Navy could move easily between ..." [More]
Excerpted from The Great White Fleet Visits Santa Cruz by Rechs Ann Pedersen
