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BAJA CALIFORNIA BIBLIOGRAPHY

From Miraculous Air (with some post-publication additions)
  

Part I: The South

Baja Sun, "Todos Santos Water Crisis," September/October 1996

Bruce Berger, Almost and Island, University of Arizona Press, 1998

Buffum, E. Gould, Six Months in the Gold Mines: From a Journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper and Lower California 1847-8-9, Lea and Blanchard, 1850

Browne, J. Ross, "Explorations in Lower California," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 37 and 38, 1868

Bruns, Rebecca, "Todos Santos," Travel and Leisure, May 1993

Carmichael, Elizabeth, and Chloë Sayer, The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico, British Museum Press, 1991

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, Don Quixote of La Mancha, New American Library, 1979

Chamberlin, Eugene Keith, "Nicholas Trist and Baja California," Pacific Historical Review, February 1963

Cooke, Edward, A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World in the Years 1708 to 1711, 2 volumes, Lintot, etc., 1712

Crosby, Harry W., Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697- 1768, University of New Mexico Press 1994

Dillon, Sam, "Mexican Cops Caught in Scandal," New York Times, November 30, 1995

Doyle, Mike, with Steve Sorenson, Morning Glass: The Adventures of Legendary Waterman Mike Doyle, Fusi Press, 1993

Eisenhower, John S. D., So Far From God: The U.S. War With Mexico 1846-1848, Random House, 1989

Fineman, Mark, and Craig Pyes, "In Baja, a Plane is Buried and Drug Ties Are Unearthed," Los Angeles Times, November 18, 1995

Gerhard, Peter, "Gabriel González, Last Dominican in Baja California," Pacific Historical Review, May 1953

Halleck, Captain Henry W., "Memorandum of Captain Henry W. Halleck Concerning His Expeditions in Lower California," in Nunis, Doyce B., Jr., The Mexican War in Baja California, Dawson's Book Shop, 1977

Hickman, Katie, A Trip to the Light Fantastic: Travels with a Mexican Circus, HarperCollins, 1993

Leonard, Irving A., Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World, Harvard University Press, 1949

Krauze, Enrique, Siglo de Caudillos: Biografía Política de México (1810-1910), TusQuets Editores, 1994

Mackintosh, Graham, Into a Desert Place: A 3000-Mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California, W.W. Norton and Company, 1995

Martínez, Pablo L., A History of Lower California, Editorial Baja California, 1960

---, Guía familiar de Baja California, 1700-1900, Editorial Baja California, 1965

McCloskey, Donald N., If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise, The University of Chicago Press, 1990

Milton, Joyce, Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, HarperCollins, 1993

Moore, Lee, The Todos Santos Book, Todos Santos Press, 1996

Moyano Pahissa, Angela, La Resistencia de las Californias a la Invasión Norteamericana (1846-1848), Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1992

New York Times, "Lindbergh Lands...", December 15, 1927

Nunis, Doyce B., Jr., The Mexican War in Baja California, Dawson's Book Shop, 1977

Oppenheimer, Andres, Bordering on Chaos: Guerillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity, Little, Brown and Company, 1995

Polk, Dora Beale, The Island of California: A History of the Myth, University of Nebraska Press, 1991

Reynolds, Christopher, "Baja Bohemia," Los Angeles Times, April 21, 1996

Steinbeck, John, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, Viking, 1951 (The narrative portion of the book, Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, by John Steinbeck and E. F. Ricketts, 1941)

Toro, María Celia, Mexico's "War" on Drugs: Causes and Consequences, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995

Van Atta, Dale, "Invasion of the Drug Lords," Reader's Digest, September 1996

Zwinger, Ann, ed., The Letters of John Xántus, Dawson's Book Shop, 1986


Part II: The Interior

Adorno, Rolena, "The Negotiation of Fear in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios," in New World Encounters, Stephen Greenblatt, ed., University of California Press, 1993

Aschmann, Homer, The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology, University of California Press, 1959

---, "Historical Sources for a Contact Enthnography of Baja California," The California Historical Society Quarterly, June 1965

Baegert, Johann Jakob, S.J., Observations in Lower California, University of California Press, 1952

---, The Letters of Jacob Baegert, 1749-1761, Jesuit Missionary in Baja California, edited by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., Dawson's Book Shop, 1982

Barco, Miguel del, Historia Natural y Crónica de la Antigua California, edited and annotated by Miguel León-Portilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, second edition, 1988

Barthel, Manfred, The Jesuits: History and Legend of the Society of Jesus, William Morrow, 1984

Belt, Don, "Baja California: Mexico's Land Apart," National Geographic, December 1989

Berger, Bruce, Sierra, Sea and Desert: El Vizcaino, Sierra Madre, 1998

Bolton, Herbert Eugene, Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer, Macmillan, 1936

Bravo, Jaime, Juan de Ugarte, and Clemente Guillén, Testimonios Sudcalifornianos: Nueva entrada y establecimiento en el Puerto de La Paz, 1720, edited and translated by Miguel León-Portilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1970

Chaput, Donald, William M. Mason, and David Zárate Loperena, Modest Fortunes: Mining in Northern Baja California, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1992

Clavigero, Francisco Javier, S.J., The History of [Lower] California, translated from the Italian by Sara E. Lake, Stanford University Press, 1937

Coe, Sophie D., and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate, Thames and Hudson, 1996

Cook, Sherburne F., The Extent and Significance of Disease Among the Indians of Baja California 1697-1773, Ibero-Americana 12, Berkeley, 1937

Crosby, Harry W., The Cave Paintings of Baja California, Sunbelt Publications, 1997

---, Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768, University of New Mexico Press, 1994

---, Last of the Californios, Copely Books, 1981

---, The King's Highway, Copley Books, 1974

Decorme, Gerardo, S.J., La Obra de los Jesuitas Mexicanos, 1572-1767: Tomo II, Las Misiones, Antigua Librería de Porrua, 1941

Del Río, Ignacio, Conquista y Aculturación en la California Jesuítica, 1697-1768, Universidad Nacional Autónomo de México, 1984

Diguet, Léon, "Note Sur la Pictographie de la Basse-California," L'Anthropologie, vol. 6, 1895

Ducrue, Benno, Ducrue's Account of the Expulsion of the Jesuits from Lower California (1767-1769), translated, annotated and edited by Ernest J. Burrus, S.J., Jesuit Historical Institute, 1967

Fiedel, Stuart J., Prehistory of the Americas, second edition, Cambridge University Press, 1992

Fineman, Mark, "Bitter Standoff at Hotel Serenidad," Los Angeles Times, January 30, 1997

Florescano, Enrique, Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to Independence, University of Texas Press, 1994

Francez, Padre James Donald, The Lost Treasures of Baja California/ Los Tesoros perdidos de la Baja California, Black Forest Press, 1996

Gante, Pablo C. de, Tepotzotlán: su historia y sus tesoros artísticos, Editorial Porrua, 1958

Gardner, Erle Stanley, Off the Beaten Track in Baja, William Morrow and Company, 1967

---, "A Legendary Treasure Left by a Long Lost Tribe," Life, 53 (3), 1962

---, The Hidden Heart of Baja, William Morrow and Company, 1962

---, Hovering Over Baja, William Morrow and Company, 1961

---, The Land of Shorter Shadows, William Morrow and Company, 1948

Grant, Campbell, Rock Art of Baja California, Dawson's Book Shop, 1974

Guillén, Clemente, Clemente Guillén, Explorer of the South: Diaries of the Overland Expeditions to Bahía Magdalena and La Paz, 1719, 1720-1721, translated and edited by W. Michael Mathes, Dawson's Book Shop, 1979

Hambleton, Enrique, La Pintura Rupestre de Baja California, Fomento Cultural Banamex, 1979

Heitman, Phil, "The Lady Who Watches Over Pilots," In Flight USA, December 1997

Iturriaga, José Mariano de, La Californiada, translated from the Latin by Alfonso Castro Pallares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1979

Jordán, Fernando, El Otro México, Gobierno del Estado de Baja California Sur, 1980

Kandell, Jonathan, La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City, Henry Holt and Company, 1988

Kirchner, John A., Baja California Railways, Dawson's Book Shop, 1988

Le Clézio, J.M.G., The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations, The University of Chicago Press, 1993

Linck, Wenceslaus, S.J., Wenceslaus Linck's Reports and Letters 1762-1778, translated and edited by Ernest J. Burrus, S.J., Dawson's Book Shop, 1967

---, Wenceslaus Linck's Diary of his 1766 Expedition, translated and edited by Ernest J. Burrus, S.J., Dawson's Book Shop, 1966

Lindbergh, Charles, The Spirit of St. Louis, Scribner's, 1953

Martínez, Pablo L., A History of Lower California, Editorial Baja California, 1960

Nápoli, Father Ignacio María, S.J., The Cora Indians of Baja California: The Relation of Father Ignacio María Nápoli, S.J., September 20, 1721, Translated and edited by James Robert Moriarty III and Benjamin F. Smith, Dawson's Book Shop, 1970

Newsweek, "Man of Mystery," January 18, 1960

North, Arthur W., Camp and Camino in Lower California, The Baker & Taylor Company, 1910

Nunis, Doyce B., Jr., The Mexican War in Baja California, Dawson's Book Shop, 1977

O'Malley, John W., The First Jesuits, Harvard University Press, 1993

Pepper, Choral, Baja California: Vanished Missions, Lost Treasures, Strange Stories Tall and True, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1973

Salvatierra, Juan María, S.J., Selected Letters About Lower California, Burrus, Ernest J., S.J., ed.,Dawson's Book Shop, 1971

Schurz, William Lytle, The Manila Galleon, E.P. Dutton, 1939

Shieffelin, Edward L. and Robert Crittenden, Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societies, Stanford University Press, 1991

Smith, William C.S., "Baja California: The 1849 Journal of William C.S. Smith," introduced and annotated by Harry W. Crosby, in Gold Rush Trails to San Diego and Los Angeles, edited by George M. Ellis, San Diego Corral of The Westerners, 1996

Steinbeck, John, The Log From the Sea of Cortez, Viking, 1951 (The narrative portion of the book, Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, by John Steinbeck and E. F. Ricketts, Viking, 1941)

Sweet, David, "The Ibero-American Frontier Mission in Native American History," in Langer, Erick, and Robert H. Jackson, eds., The New Latin American Mission History, University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Venegas, Miguel, S.J., Noticia de la California y de su Conquista Temporal y Espiritual, three volumes, Editorial Layac, 1944


Part III: The Sea of Cortes

Bryant, Mark, and Néstor Segovia, "La Masacre de la Caguama," La Onda, April 1996

Buffum, E. Gould, Six Months in the Gold Mines: From a Journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper and Lower California, 1847-8-9, Lea and Blanchard, 1850

Burrus, Ernest J., S.J., editor and translator, Wenceslaus Linck's Reports and Letters, 1762- 1778, Dawson's Book Shop, 1967

Cannon, Ray, The Sea of Cortez, Lane Magazine and Book Company, 1966

Delpar, Helen, The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican: Cultural Relations Between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935, University of Alabama Press, 1992

Díaz, Bernal, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain

Dibble, Sandra, "Turtle's Trek Across Pacific Awes Scientists," The San Diego Union- Tribune, March 7, 1996

Flores Kelly, Jorge,................................

Gardner, Erle Stanley, Off the Beaten Track in Baja, William Morrow, 1967

---, Hovering Over Baja, William Morrow, 1961

Johnson, William Weber, Baja California, Time-Life Books, 1972

Jordán, Fernando, Mar Roxo de Cortés: Biografía de un Golfo, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 1995

Kelly, Neil, and Gene Kira, The Baja Catch: A Fishing, Travel & Remote Camping Manual for Baja California, Apples & Oranges, Inc., revised edition, 1993

Kirchner, John A., Baja California Railways, Dawson's Book Shop, 1988

Klassen, Jeff, "Los Cabos Fishing," Baja Life, issue five, 1996

Knudson, Tom, "A Dying Sea," Special Report, The Sacramento Bee, December 10-13, 1995

Krauze, Enrique, "El Legado de Cortés," Reforma, December 7, 1997

Leonard, Irving A., Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth Century, Harvard University Press, 1949

Léon-Portilla, Miguel, Cartografía y Crónicas de la Antigua California, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Fundación de Investigaciones Sociales, 1989

Lindbergh, Charles A., "The Wisdom of Wildness," Life, December 22, 1967

Lockhart, James, editor and translator, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, vol. I, University of California Press, 1993

Martínez, José Luis, Hernán Cortés, (versión abreviada), Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1992

Mathes, W. Michael, translator and editor, The Conquistador in California: 1535, The Voyage of Fernando Cortés to Baja California in Chronicles and Documents, Dawson's Book Shop, 1973

Morris, J. Bayard, translator, Hernando Cortés: Five Letters, 1519-1526, W.W. Norton, 1928

North, Arthur W., Camp and Camino in Lower California, The Baker & Taylor Company, 1910

---, The Mother of California, Paul Elder and Company, 1908

Polk, Dora Beale, The Island of California: A History of the Myth, University of Nebraska Press, 1991

Portillo, Alvaro del, Descubrimientos y Exploraciones en las Costas de California, 1532- 1650, Ediciones RIALP, S.A., 1982

Ronstadt, Edward F., editor, Borderman: Memoirs of Federico José María Ronstadt, University of New Mexico Press, 1993

SeaWatch, "Shark Fishery a Huge Disaster," SeaWatch Alert, January 1995

Simpich, Frederick, "Baja California Wakes Up," National Geographic Magazine, August, 1942

Steinbeck, John, Sea of Cortez, Viking, 1951 (The narrative portion of the book, Log from the Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck and E.F. Ricketts, 1941)

Thomas, Hugh, Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico, Touchstone, 1993

Vargas, Enrique, "Cabo Klassics: The Hottest New Lure Design in Town," Baja Life, vol. one, issue four, 1995

Warrick, Joby, "Sharks Vanishing From the World's Oceans," The Washington Post, November 10, 1997

Zwinger, Anne, A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California, Harper & Row Publishers, 1983


Part IV: The Pacific Coast

Aridjis, Homero, "The Silence of the Whales," Grupo de los 100, February 15, 1995

---, "El Silencio de las Ballenas," Reforma, February 21, 1995

Cardwardine, Mark, Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, Dorling Kindersley, 1995

Consejo Consultivo del Programa Nacional de Solidaridad, El Programa Nacional de Solidaridad, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994

Dedina, Serge and Emily Young, "Conservation and Development in the Gray Whale Lagoons of Baja California Sur, Mexico", Final Report to the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, October 1995

Dresser, Denise, Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Program, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1991

Eisenhower, John S.D., So Far From God: The U.S. War with Mexico 1846-1848, Random House, 1989

Everitt, Sandra, "Keiko se nos va", Epoca, January 1996

García Moll, Roberto, ed., El Mundo Mixteco y Zapoteco, Editorial Jilguero, 1992

Gardner, Erle Stanley, Hunting the Desert Whale, William Morrow and Company, 1960

Garduño, Evardo, Efraín García, and Patricia Morán, Mixtecos en Baja California: El Caso de San Quintín, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 1989

Gilders, Michele A., Reflections of a Whale-watcher, Indiana University Press, 1995

Grant, Campbell, "Charles Melville Scammon: Sea Captain-Naturalist", in Scammon, Charles Melville, The Marine Mammals of the North-western Coast of North America, facsimile edition, Manessier Publishing Co., 1969

Johnson, William Weber, Baja California, Time-Life Books, 1972

Kirchner, John A., Baja California Railways, Dawson's Book Shop, 1988

Landauer, Lyndall Baker, Scammon: Beyond the Lagoon: A Biography of Charles Melville Scammon, Flying Cloud Press, 1986

Lindbergh, Charles, "The Wisdom of Wildness", Life, December 22, 1967

Lindbergh, Jon, [...] Life, [...] 1965

Mansell-Carstens, Catherine, Las Finanzas Populares en México, Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos, Editorial Milenio, ITAM, 1995

Martínez, Pablo L., A History of Lower California, Editorial Baja California, 1960

McDonald, Paula, "The Friendly Whales of Laguna San Ignacio", Baja Life, vol. 1, issue 4, 1995 (reprinted from Reader's Digest)

McNally, Robert, So Remorseless a Havoc: Of Dolphins, Whales and Men, Little, Brown and Company, 1981

Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, edited with an introduction and commentary by Harold Beaver, Penguin, 1972

Moyano Pahissa, Angela, "La Compañía Inglesa," in Panorama Histórico de Baja California, edited by David Piñeda Ramírez, Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Autónoma Nacional and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 1983

North, Arthur W., Camp and Camino in Lower California, The Baker and Taylor Company, 1910

Padgett, Tim, and Sharon Begley, "Beware of the Humans," Newsweek, February 5, 1996

Pastor, Robert A. and Jorge G. Castañeda, Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico, Random House, 1988

Payne, Roger, Among Whales, Scribner, 1995

Piñera Ramírez, David, "Tierras Deshabitadas y Concesionarios Extranjeros," in Panorama Histórico de Baja California, coordinated by David Ramírez Piñeda, Centro de Investigaciones Históricas UNAM-UABC, 1983

Río, Tayde del, "Lloran a 'mares'", Reforma, January 8, 1996

Scammon, Charles Melville, The Marine Mammals of the North-western Coast of North America and the American Whale Fishery, John H. Carmany and Company, 1874

Steven, Lynn, Zapotec Women, University of Texas Press, 1991

Turner, John Kenneth, Barbarous Mexico, Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1910


Part V: The Border

Conover, Ted, Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens, Vintage Books, 1987

Guggenheim, Ken, "Four Years Later, Case Still Baffles," Associated Press, March 23, 1998

Guillermoprieto, Alma, "Whodunnit?" The New Yorker, September 25, 1995

Iglesias Prieto, Norma, Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: LIfe Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana, University of Texas Press, 1997

Jordan, Mary, and Kevin Sullivan,The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail, Penguin, 2005

Joselit, David, "Living on the Border," Art In America, December 1989

Juárez, Miguel Angel, "Revela Comisión Nuevo Video en Caso Colosio," Reforma, March 23, 1998

Langewiesche, William, Cutting for Sign: One Man's Journey Along the U.S.-Mexican Border, Vintage Books, 1993

Morales, Carlos, and Samuel Palma, Colosio: La Construcción de un Destino, Rayuela Editores, 1995

Oppenheimer, Andres, Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity, Little, Brown and Company, 1996

Proffitt, T.D., III, Tijuana: The History of a Mexican Metropolis, San Diego State University Press, 1994

Ravelo, Ricardo, "De 23 de marzo a 23 de marzo: 1,560 declaraciones... y nada," Proceso, March 22, 1998

Rotella, Sebastian, Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the U.S.-Mexican Border, W.W. Norton and Co., 1998

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