The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Winter 2000, Volume 46, Number 1
Gregg Hennessey, Editor

Main Articles

From Spanish Romance to Neon Confidence and Demolition Fear: The Twentieth Century Life of the El Cortez Hotel
By Kyle E. Ciani and By Cynthia Malinick
Captain Edward William Funcke: Hunting in Baja California for a Living
By Eric Mellink

Book Reviews

An Account of the Voyage of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.
James D. Nauman, Editor. Reviewed by Steven Colston.
Civil War Veterans of San Diego, CA
By Barbara Palmer. Reviewed by Alexa Clausen.
U.S.S. Saratoga (CV3): An Illustrated History of the Legendary Aircraft Carrier 1927-1946
By John Fry. Reviewed by Mark Allen
Where Rails Meet the Sea: America’s Connections Between Ships and Trains.
By Michael Krieger. Reviewed by Theodore Kornweibel.

Book Notes

The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities
By William A. V. Clark.
Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration
By David M. Reimers.
Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb
By Leland T. Saito.
Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century
Edited by David Montejano.
Confessions of a Kinetic Congressman
By Bob Wilson with Larry Bischof and William Brian Lowry.
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
By Frederich Katz.
Documenting Everyday Life in Early Spanish California: The Santa Barbara Presidio Memorias y facturas, 1779-1810.
Edited by Giorgio Perissinotto
Frontier Children
By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
Griffith Park: A Centennial History
By Mike Eberts
To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1998
By Stephen Howarth
The Atlas of North American Exploration From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole
By William H. Goetzmann and Glyndwr Williams
The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited
Edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.