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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area
The Ohlone Way Indian Life in the San FranciscoMonterey Bay Area Author:Malcolm Margolin, Michael Harney (Illustrator) Included in the San Francisco Chronicle's Top 100 Non-fiction books of the century — Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick... more » clouds "with a sound like that of a hurricane." This land of "inexpressible fertility," as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America.
One of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, _The Ohlone Way _ describes the culture of the Indian people who inhabited Bay Areas prior to the arrival of Europeans.« less