San Diego Yesterday

by Richard W. Crawford

Overview

San Diego today is a vibrant and bustling coastal city, but it wasn't always so. The city's transformation from a rough-hewn border town and frontier port to a vital military center was marked by growing pains and political clashes. Civic highs and criminal lows have defined San Diego's rise through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into a preeminent Sun Belt city. Historian Richard W. Crawford recalls the significant events and one-of-a-kind characters like benefactor Frank "Booze" Beyer, baseball hero Albert Spalding and novelist Scott O'Dell. Join Crawford for a collection that recounts how San Diego yesterday laid the foundation for the city's bright future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625840448
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/28/2013
Series:	American Chronicles
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Richard Crawford is the supervisor of Special Collections at the San Diego Public Library. He is the former archives director at the San Diego Historical Society, where he also edited the Journal of San Diego History for nine years. Crawford is a journalist at the San Diego Union-Tribune and also published "The Way We Were in San Diego."

Table of Contents

Preface 5

Part I A Frontier Port Becomes a City 7

Part II Civic Pride 24

Part II San Diego at War 42

Part IV Sins of the City 59

Part V On the Border 73

Part VI Disorderly Conduct 87

Part VII Fear and Intolerance 106

Part VIII San Diegans to Remember 123

Sources 141

Index 155

About the Author 159