We recommend the following books (and a few films) to learn more about the topics covered in Duende's presentations.

FRIENDLY FIRE / GUNPOWDER MAN / THE BETSY ROSS OF THE BEARS / THE GREAT BLIGHT / VIVIEN

Friendly Fire

• Adopted by Indians: A True Story
  by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, Malcolm Margolin (Editor), Hilair Chism, Rick Jones (Illustrators), Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1997
• Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians
  edited by Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson, Menlo Park: Ballena Press, 1993
• Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages
  by Leanne Hinton, Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1994
• Gold Seeker: Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years
  by Jean-Nicolas Perlot, Howard R. Lamar (Editor), Helen Harding Brentnor (Translator), New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985
• Indian Summer: A True Account of Traditional Life among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley
  by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, Malcolm Margolin (Forward), Frank F. Latta (Introduction), Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1993
• Indian Survival on the California Frontier
  by Albert L. Hurtado, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998
• The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852
  by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, Marlene Smith-Baranzini (Editor), Heyday Books, 1998
• The Sound of Rattles and Clappers: A Collection of New California Indian Writing
  edited by Greg Sarris, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1994
• The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences
  edited by Malcolm Margolin, Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1981
• Tradition and Innovation: A Basket History of the Indians of the Yosemite-Mono Lake Area
  by Craig D. Bates, Martha J. Lee, Yosemite Assn., 1991
• Note: All people interested in Native Californians should get a current catalog from Heyday Books, Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709. They are the prime publisher on the subject. You can also get a subscription to their periodical: News from Native California.

Gunpowder Man

• China Men
  by Maxine Hong Kingston, Vintage Books, 1989
• God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
  by Jonathan D. Spence, W.W. Norton & Co., 1997
• Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom
  by Katherine Paterson, Puffin, 1995
• The Great Iron Link: The Building of the Central Pacific Railroad (Great Projects)
  by Rosemary Laughlin, Morgan Reynolds, 1996
• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
  by Maxine Hong Kingston, Vintage Books, 1989
• Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel
  by Ruthanne Lum McCunn (Preface), Tisha Hooks (Editor), Beacon Press, 1991

The Betsy Ross of the Bears

• An Ordinary Woman: A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey
  by Cecelia Holland, Forge, 1999
• The Bidwell-Bartleson Party: 1841 California Emigrant Adventure: The Documents and Memoirs of the Overland Pioneers
  by Doyce Nunis (Editor), Western Tanager, 1991
• The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852
  by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, Marlene Smith-Baranzini (Editor), Heyday Books, 1981

The Great Blight

• The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America
  by Edward Laxton, Henry Holt, 1998
• The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849
  by Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith, Charles Woodham, Penguin USA, 1995
• This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52
  by Christine Kinealy, Roberts Rinehart Pub., 1995

Vivien

• An Unquiet Mind
  by Kay Redfield Jamison, Random House, 1997
• Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
  by Kay Redfield Jamison, Free Press, 1996
• Vivien: The Life of Vivien Leigh
  by Alexander Walker, Grove Press, 1989
• A Streetcar Named Desire Film (1951)
  Starring: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, et al. Director: Elia Kazan
• Fire Over England Film (1937)
  Starring: Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, et al. Director: William K. Howard
• Gone With the Wind Film (1939)
  Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, et al. Director: Victor Fleming