Book in fine condition; former owner's book stamp with name in ink opposite front end paper; faint soiling top edge of book; otherwise, as new. Dust jacket in very good condition; moderate scuffing; one short horizontal tear back inside flap; one short vertical tear bottom edge at spine; light points of rubbing along edges. Revised and Enlarged Edition with Maps and Reference List of Obsolete Names. 416 pages. Black cloth boards gold stamped lettering on spine. 10.5 x 7 in.

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Title: California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
Publication Date: 1969
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0520015746
ISBN 13: 9780520015746
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 3rd Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Absco, a Southern Pacific station, was coined in the 1920s from the name of the American Beet Sugar Company, which had a factory in Oxnard.Pochea is an Indian village site in Riverside County, said to mean "where the rabbit went in."Siskiyou was the Chinook word for 'bobtailed horse,' originally taken over from the Cree language. From Abadi Creek to Zzyzyx Spring, thousands of discoveries await the reader of California Place Names. This is the fourth edition, extensively revised and expanded, of a classic work of Californiana. The curious traveler or resident, as well as the serious student, will find a wealth of description and history in these names, as rich and various as the California landscape itself.Like its predecessors, this edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. It has been updated to

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