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With a rich field before them, local authors produce a host of excellent works covering many aspects of Monterey’s history and culture. This list just begins to scratch the surface. (Click the book’s title to learn more about it.)
A Monterey Album: Life by the Bay by Dennis Copeland and Jeanne McCombs (ISBN: 0738520985)
Selected from the photo collections of the Monterey Public Library, the photographs in A Monterey Album: Life by the Bay show the activities of everyday life.
Cannery Row, The History of John Steinbeck's Old Ocean View Avenue by Michael Kenneth Hemp (ISBN 0-941425-01-0)
Hundreds of oral history interviews in the 1980s provide the human history of "America's Most Famous Street,” illustrated with 178 archival photos from the Pat Hathaway Historic Photo Collection of California Views.
Chinese Gold: The Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region by Sandy Lydon (ISBN: 0-932319-01-7)
Learn about a little-known aspect of California’s settlement in the late 1800s, with this erudite book about Chinese immigration and communities.
Fort Ord by Harold E. Raugh Jr. (ISBN: 0-738528-69-2)
Founded as a training area for Presidio of Monterey troops in 1917, Fort Ord covered more than 28,000 acres near the city of Monterey in its heyday – covered in this lavishly illustrated book.
Monterey Peninsula: The Golden Age by Kim Coventry (ISBN: 0-738520-80-2)
Over 200 vintage images (many never before published) reveal the communities of the Monterey coast in their glory days, 1880 through the 1930s.
Noticias, the Quarterly Journal of Monterey History & Art Association.
In-depth exploration of aspects of Monterey’s history and artistic background.
Monterey: Presidio, Pueblo and Port by J. D. Conway and The City of Monterey (ISBN 0-7385-2423-9)
Monterey’s Eden-like setting belies the often-turbulent history that took place here, as diverse nationalities and interests struggled to overcome the divisions that faced them and forge a home for all.
Pebble Beach Golf Links: The Official History by Neal Hotelling (1-886947-04-X)
Part chronicle and part large-format photo album (pictures by Joann Dost), this book beautifully traces the saga of Pebble Beach from its pre-golf beginnings as a destination on Hotel del Monte’s 17-Mile Drive to the present day.
Presidio of Monterey by Harold E. Raugh Jr. (ISBN: 0-738528-70-6)
An in-depth look at the long military history of Monterey’s Presidio from its earliest military uses.
Storied Land: Community and Memory in Monterey by John Walton (ISBN: 0-520227-22-0)
California began in Monterey and Monterey's story is arguably the story of California. In this highly original book, John Walton examines the historical formation and reformation of community in Monterey over a period of 230 years.
Books by John Steinbeck with a particular Monterey County connection:
Cannery Row
East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
Sweet Thursday
Tortilla Flat
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