One weekend in 1974, Jerome Baumgartner sat with his father and listened to stories of his childhood on the Santa Margarita Ranch. Jerome had heard these stories many times before, but this time was different: this time there was a tape recorder going. That weekend was the first session of what was to become a remarkable oral history of one of the biggest and most important ranchos in California history, a quarter-million acre ranch with tens of thousands of cattle and hundreds of horses, not to mention vaqueros, Chinese ...
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One weekend in 1974, Jerome Baumgartner sat with his father and listened to stories of his childhood on the Santa Margarita Ranch. Jerome had heard these stories many times before, but this time was different: this time there was a tape recorder going. That weekend was the first session of what was to become a remarkable oral history of one of the biggest and most important ranchos in California history, a quarter-million acre ranch with tens of thousands of cattle and hundreds of horses, not to mention vaqueros, Chinese cooks, and a vast extended family of remarkable people. But Rancho Margarita Remembered is not just a history of a Southern California cattle ranch. More important, it is the recorded memory of a child's view of a unique period of history of rural America - the first twenty years of the twentieth century - and what it was like to grow up in those times.
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Add this copy of Rancho Santa Margarita Remembered to cart. $27.00, very good condition, Sold by Jeff Stark rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Barstow, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Fithian Press.
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VG Plus. No Jacket. VG plus gilt cattle-brand on cover and gilt spine title. Very good condition. Inscribed in ink by the author on the half-title: "To ________ fondly Jerome W. Baumgartner." Map endpapers and historic photos in b/w. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-10" Tall.
Add this copy of Rancho Santa Margarita (Signed) to cart. $31.95, like new condition, Sold by The Warm Springs Book Company rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fremont, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Fithian Press.
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Fine. Signed by author. A fine copy in a pictorial wraps. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper; No printing stated. Illustrated; 8vo., 170 pages.
Add this copy of Rancho Santa Margarita Remembered to cart. $43.67, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Fithian Press.
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