![]() ![]() (Cleland also wrote the first History of Occidental College, published in 1937.) Cleland's pioneering account of Southern California's transition from a Mexican cattle frontier to an agricultural American community on the eve of great urban expansion remains in print. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California 1850-1880 (1941) by Robert C. East Coast reviewers discovered his epic poems in an expanded edition that was issued the following year. Even so, it was originally ignored upon its publication. Jeffers' third volume of poetry established his reputation as one of America's best new poets. Tamar and Other Poems (1924) by Robinson Jeffers 1905. ![]() "I had been alive at a great moment, and knew it was great." Beatty provides an eyewitness account of the 1917 Russian Revolution, based on her dispatches as a foreign correspondent for the San Francisco Bulletin. The Red Heart of Russia (1919) by Bessie Beatty 1907. After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, it was reissued with fulsome new introduction by Clare Boothe. foreign policy-was dismissed at home but reportedly sold 84,000 copies in Japan. Lea's book about the inevitability of military conflict between America and Japan-the title sarcastically refers to the blindness of U.S. The Valor of Ignorance (1909) by Homer Lea 1900. ![]()
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