Home Back My Cart : 0 item(s)

 

DEATH IN CALIFORNIA

DEATH IN CALIFORNIA
Sale Price: $9.57
Compared at: $15.95
You Save: $6.38
Product ID : 12-878

Purchase

Description

Subtitle: "The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the Golden State." This book?s aim is to encompass shocking murders and accidents that at the time shook the very soul of Californians, but eventually and gratefully faded from memory. California has always been a destination for people with dreams of fame and fortune. Anything is possible in California, and when anything is possible, death always lurks nearby. ?Death in California? is a historic manuscript detailing the more arcane ways people have died in the Golden State. The thirty-one vignettes in ?Death in California? range from a description of being one of the fourteen different tourists to be swept to their deaths over Vernal Falls in Yosemite National Park, to singer Bob ?Bear? Hite of the blues/boogie band Canned Heat overdosing on heroin in a seedy Hollywood nightclub. The book?s diverse set of deaths include a tale of torture and murder by a chicken farmer in the desert in 1926, as well as the tragedy of a 10- ton jet airplane crashing into a Bay Area apartment kitchen in 1973. The litany of freakish and bizarre deaths in California also include hangings, gun accidents, crashes and suicide. Social status is no barrier: both the famous and obscure are profiled.

Products You May Like

  • GREETINGS FROM FRESNO: Vintage Postcards from California's Heartland

    GREETINGS FROM FRESNO: Vintage Postcards from California's Heartland $26.95
    $16.17

    More than 200 vintage color postcards bring to life Fresno County's storied past. These vibrant images date from as early as 1875, and are paired with brief passages that deftly position each card within its historical context. Famous long-vanished Fresno edifices are revived again, including the El Rancho motel, the Carnegie Library, and the Pine Lake Lodge. Beautiful, educational, and inspiring, this exceptional compilation is a treasure trove for the regional history buff.

  • THE NEWHALL INCIDENT

    THE NEWHALL INCIDENT. cover image $16.95
    $10.17

    Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red Pontiac with two men in it is stopped, four young California Highway Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wounds. The incident still stands as the worst of its kind in America.

  • ON THE RUN

    ON THE RUN $14.95
    $8.97

    On The Run is Douglas McHardie?s amazing tale of adventure and survival at the dawn of the modern era. The year is 1898 in northern California, and after a melee with his drunken father, 16 year old McHardie flees the lumber town of his youth. He soon becomes entangled with an outlaw gang, and is then seemingly propelled through a series of astounding adventures where his ability to simply survive is repeatedly put to the test. From gold prospecting in Alaska to smuggling guns to tribes in Afghanistan, he exists on the sharp edge of destiny, with life on one side and death on the other.

  • California Fruits, Flakes & Nuts

    California Fruits Flakes Nuts Cover $14.95

    They call California the Granola State — a place where everyone is a fruit, a flake or a nut. They don’t get any fruitier, flakier or nuttier than the deviants, crackpots and losers profiled in California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts. A freewheeling catalog of misfits, eccentrics, creeps, criminals and failed dreamers, California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts profiles 48 bizarre personalities who exemplify the Golden State’s well-deserved reputation for nonconformity. Unlike the sanitized heroics taught in school, California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts tells history from the viewpoint of the losers: murderers, lunatics, eccentrics and disgraced, washed-up celebrities. Presenting a wealth of historical information that had long been swept away and forgotten, California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts is a uniquely entertaining look at the dark and disreputable corners of California history. In these pages, Gold Rush pioneers are revealed as murderous madmen; Hollywood celebrities are shown to be drug-addled sex maniacs; early hippies are just 1950s weirdos; and even seemingly ordinary Californians have a talent for freakish, crazy and criminal behavior. California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts profiles such stellar Californians as frontier lunatic Grizzly Adams (whose head was one massive wound after multiple bear attacks); I Love Lucy star William Frawley (a racist, misogy- nist, foul-mouthed drunk); skirt-wearing, skirt-chasing legendarily awful film director Ed Wood; proto-hippie and “Nature Boy” singer eden ahbez; rocket scientist, black magician and L. Ron Hubbard mentor Marvel Par- sons; and many more nutjobs, oddballs and dangerously violent freaks. The perfect book for anyone who likes feeling superior to losers, California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts is a side-splitting, salacious and shocking salute to the people who made California the strangest place on earth.

Call us: 800-345-4447

Full Website