The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Fall 1986, Volume 32, Number 4
Thomas L. Scharf, Editor

Main Articles

Mathias F. Heller — The Cash Grocer
By Robert H. Forward
George White Marston and Conservative Reform in San Diego
By Gregg R. Hennessey
San Diego County’s Water Crusader, Fred A Heilbron
By Robert E. Melbourne

Book Reviews

To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in American Imagination.
By Robert W. Johannsen. Reviewed by Dennis E. Berge.
Captain Money and the Golden Girl: The J. David Affair.
By Donald Bauder. Reviewed by Harry McDean.
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States.
By Kenneth T. Jackson. Reviewed by Jack D. Elenbaas.
The West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War.
By Gerald D. Nash. Reviewed by Steven E. Schoenherr.
Early California Oil: A Photographic History, 1865-1940. Number Four, The Montague History of Oil Series.
By Kenny A. Franks and Paul F. Lambert. Reviewed by Lawrence B. de Graaf.
Museums for a New Century: A Report of the Commission on Museums for a New Century.
Reviewed by Vincent Moses.

Book Reviews

The America’s First Academic Library: Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco.
By W. Michael Mathes.
The Art of California: Selected Works from the Collection of the Oakland Museum.
Edited by Christina Orr-Cahall.
The Writing of American History.
By Michael Kraus and David D. Joyce.
Oral History Collection on the Performing Arts.
Dallas: Southern Methodist University.
Western Americana in the California State Library.
Edited by Gary E. Strong and Gary F. Kurutz.
United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Domestic.
Edited by Paolo E. Coletta.