Exhibit Research and Credits
Print Resources
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Literary Industries, A Memoir. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1891.
Emanuels, George. Walnut Creek: Arroyo de las Nueces. Diablo Books, Walnut Creek, 1991.
Emanuels, George. Ygnacio Valley 1834-1970. Panorama West Books, Fresno, 1985.
Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. Yale University Press, 1988.
M. Roy Cartography. Map of Native peoples and languages of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas circa 1700. For Bay Nature Magazine, based on data from Tammara Norton and Randall Milliken, and with input from members of the Quiroste tribe (the Quiroste tribe are the ancestral relatives of today’s Amah Mutsun, Muwekma, and other Bay Area Native peoples).
Margolin, Malcolm. The Ohlone Way : Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. Berkeley, Heyday Books, 1978.
Silver, Johanna and Brenner, Marian (Photographer). The Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden. Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2016
Tahira, Chieko. Lotus. Gerald Tahira, 1996.
Web Resources
Bouchert, Philip – Photo Credit, Banner
Burke, Sean. Preserving the Past, Inspiring the Future
Contra Costa Historical Society
Cultural Resources Assessment Report 1835 Weaver Lane, Walnut Creek Contra Costa County, California
D’Costa, Krysta. “The American Obsession with Lawns. Scientific American, 2007
DeSalles, Sande “The Roots of a Legacy A History of Walnut Creek, California’s Open Space”
Museum of the San Ramon Valley
Olmstead, Alan L. and Rhode, Paul W. “A History of California Agriculture.”
Walnut Creek Historical Society
Wilcox, Micheal “MUWEKMA: Narratives, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Erasure”
Advising and Research Support
Walnut Creek Historical Society
Sean Burke – Save Mt. Diablo
Christopher Sulots – East Bay Regional Parks
Chris Ladan – UC Climate Steward
Gail Wolfson
Susan Van Dyne
Martin Steinpress, David Mitchell and Arthur Waddington
Bill Duncan and Mary Stone
Special thanks to Helen Josephine for sponsoring the exhibit and help every step of the way!