Recommended Reading

If you would like to learn more about some of the topics in the Dairy Hill exhibit, check out these materials. You can purchase many of these titles at the History San José Museum Store.

A Walk Through the Past: San José’s Oak Hill Memorial Park by Patricia Loomis. San José, CA: San José Argonaut Historical Society, 1994.

Chinatown San Jose, USA by Connie Young Yu. San José, CA: History San José, 2001.

Footprints in the Soil: A Portuguese-Californian Remembers by Rose Emery Peters. San José, CA: Portuguese Heritage Publications of California, 2003.

From the Ground Up: Building Silicon Valley by Goodwin B. Steinberg and Susan Wolfe. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Smart Growth Online: www.smartgrowth.org. Developed and funded through a cooperative agreement between the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Sustainable Communities Network, this tool is designed to advance public understanding of smart growth and to demonstrate how growth can improve community livability.

Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California by Sue Falgade Lick. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1998.

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang. New York: Viking, 2003.

The Portuguese Californians: Immigrants in Agriculture by Alvin Ray Graves, Ph.D. San José, CA: Portuguese Heritage Publications of California, Inc., 2004.

Bibliography

“American Dairy Company.” The Campbell Press. Campbell, CA; 10 March 1938.

Anderson, M. Kat, Michael G. Barbour, and Valerie Whitworth. “A World of Balance and Plenty: Land, Plants, Animals and Humans in a Pre-European California” in Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. Ramón A. Guttierez and Richard J. Orsi, editors. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.

Arbuckle, Clyde. Clyde Arbuckle’s History of San José. San José, CA: Smith-McKay Printing Co., 1985.

Brainard, Henry A. The Santa Clara Valley. March 1887.

Breeds of Livestock: http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/ Oklahoma State University Department of Animal Husbandry. April 2005.

City of San José. Communications Hill Specific Plan. San José, CA: California Room, Martin Luther King Jr. Library, October 1991.

Foote, H.S. Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World, or Santa Clara County, California. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1888.

Friedly, Michael. “This Brief Eden: A History of Landscape Change in California’s Santa Clara Valley.” Ph. D. dissertation, Duke University, 2000.

Graves, Alvin Ray. The Portuguese Californians: Immigrants in Agriculture. San José, CA: Portuguese Heritage Publications of California, Inc., 2004.

Hall, Frederic. The History of San José and Surroundings, with biographical sketches of early settlers. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1871.

Hill, Ward and Basin Research Associates. “Historic Evaluation Report: The American Dairy Company Farm.” San Francisco: 29 April 1998.

Historical atlas map of Santa Clara County, California / compiled, drawn, and published from personal examinations and surveys by Thompson & West. San Francisco: Thompson & West, 1876.

History of Santa Clara County, California. San Francisco: Alley, Bowen, & Co., 1881.

Holmes, Norman W. Prune Country Railroading: Steel Trails to San José. Huntington Beach, CA: Shade Tree Books, 1985.

Kaplan, Tracy and Sue McAllister. “What’s Behind the Housing Crunch? – Small Steps Falling Short” in San José Mercury News, 7 August 2002.

Lick, Sue Falgade. Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 1998.

Loomis, Patricia. A Walk Through the Past: San José’s Oak Hill Memorial Park. San José, CA: San José Argonaut Historical Society, 1994.

Manly, William Lewis. Death Valley in ’49. San José, CA: The Pacific Tree and Vine Co., 1894.

Mulock, Frank. “Plant Handles Milk in Most Sanitary Manner.” The Evening News, San José, CA; 2 February 1929.

Reilly, Erin M. “A River Ran Through it…: the Cultural Ecology of the Santa Clara Valley Riparian Zone.” Santa Clara, CA: Santa Clara University, Department of Anthropology and Sociology Research Manuscript Series no. 3, 1994.

Santos, Robert L. “Dairying in California through 1910” in Southern California Quarterly 76 (Summer 1994). Reprinted at http://www.library.csustan.edu/bsantos/dairy.html.

Sawyer, Eugene T. History of Santa Clara County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present. Los Angeles: Historic Record Co., 1922.

Simmons, William S. “Indian Peoples of California” in Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. Ramón A. Guttierez and Richard J. Orsi, editors. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998.

Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers: Santa Clara County and its resources, historical, descriptive, statistical: a souvenir of the San José Mercury. San José, CA: San José Mercury Publishing and Printing Co., 1896. San José, CA: San José Historical Museum Association, 1986.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “Critical Habitat Designated for Threatened San Francisco Bay Area Butterfly.” Portland, OR: Pacific Regional Office, 30 April 2001.

Wilcox, Earley Vernon, and Clarence Beaman Smith, M.S. Farmer's Cyclopedia of Agriculture. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1911. Reprinted at http://www.thelitterbox.org/librum/i-fcoa/