The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Fall 1998, Volume 44, Number 4
Richard W. Crawford, Editor

Main Articles

Palomar, After 50 Years
by Ronald Florence
L. Frank Baum’s La Jolla: Halfway to Oz
by Bard C. Cosman
An Old Town “Gunfight”: The Homicide Trial of Cave Johnson Couts.
by Clare V. McKanna, Jr.

Book Reviews

Witnesses to the Struggle: Imaging the 1930s California Labor Movement.
By Anne Loftis. Reviewed by John Putnam.
The Complete Writings of Kate Sessions in California Garden, 1909-1939.
Edited by Barbara Schillreff Jones. Reviewed by Lucy Warren.
Indian Women of Early Mexico.
Edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett. Reviewed by Stephen A. Colston.
Lawman: The Life and Times of Harry Morse, 1835-1912.
By John Boessenecker. Reviewed by Richard Griswold del Castillo.
Rethinking American Indian History.
Edited by Donald L. Fixico. Reviewed by Alan Kilpatrick.
Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer?
Edited by R.C. Gordon-McCutchan. Reviewed by Raymond Starr.
Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush.
Edited by Ramon Gutierrez and Richard S. Orsi. Reviewed by Dr. Robert J. Chandler.
A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West.
By Sally Zanjani. Reviewed by Susan Gonda.
Helen Hunt Jackson and her Indian Reform Legacy.
By Valerie Sheres Mathes. Reviewed by Joanne Donahoe.