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Also by Barbara Crane:

When Water Was Everywhere, May 2016
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When Water Was Everywhere
Barbara Crane

Author Self-Published
May 2016
On Sale: May 11, 2016
Featuring: Don Rodrigo Tilman; Henry Scott
ISBN: 0997260904
EAN: 9780997260908
Kindle: B01FJ3NJAA
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Fiction

Once upon a time in Los Angeles, water was everywhere—in rivers that rendered the vast plain marsh and woodland; in underground streams that provided an abundance of water for people, cattle, orchards and vineyards.

The American Henry Scott encounters this fertile landscape in When Water Was Everywhere. Arriving in the Mexican pueblo of Los Angeles in 1842, he meets Don Rodrigo Tilman (based on the historical John Temple). Scott becomes the foreman of Tilman’s newly-purchased cattle ranch along the Los Angeles River, the present day Rancho Los Cerritos.

As Scott learns about ranchos and cattle, vaqueros and Indians, Mexican California and Tongva Indian village life come alive under Barbara Crane’s deft grasp of narrative and history. Tilman, Scott, Big Headed Girl (a young Tongva Indian woman) and Padre José’s (a Franciscan friar) unfolding stories assure the novel’s themes of loss, hope and redemption resonate from every page.

Comments

24 comments posted.

Re: When Water Was Everywhere

Tha Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
(Tanja Dancy 3:00pm February 22, 2017)

Not sure what I'm suppose to comment on. But thank you for the chance.
(Valerie Miller 4:01pm February 22, 2017)

Ok I re read the post above, my granddaughter must have made me miss that part
of the reading.
I would have to go with the Dark Hunter series has given me a look into New
Orleans. I just made it there this year for the first time in my 45 years here on
earth.
(Valerie Miller 4:07pm February 22, 2017)

The Help comes to mind first. Set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 60's, it is an awakening of justice for those who served the white community and were mistreated.
(Susan Coster 10:45pm February 22, 2017)

lost Among The Living, The Yard, The Confectioner's Tale, The
Railwayman's Wife all have a wonderful sense of place which is
very well portrayed.
(Sharon Berger 10:17am February 23, 2017)

This book sounds very interesting. Would like to read about the early history of
California.
(Joy Isley 10:16am February 24, 2017)

Because I have been able to travel to many parts of the
world, I like any book that places me where I have visited.
It is always great to be able to picture the area as I
remember it.
(Leona Olson 10:19am February 24, 2017)

I've read a number of historical novels set in New York
City in centuries past. Amazing to think that about a
century ago (or less) there were still farms on Manhattan
Island. Now only asphalt and skyscrapers bloom where once
were lush fields and forests. Why do humans think their
"progress" improves this world?
(Irene Menge 10:37am February 24, 2017)

I'd love to read this and add to my knowledge of California history. I know a bit about later history when the Bixby family formed a large ranch there, but not a lot before then.
(Sharon Mitchell 7:55pm February 24, 2017)

I love reading stories that take place in the past of
places I love.
(Linda Knowles 9:56pm February 24, 2017)

This sounds like a great book! thanks for the chance to win
(Nicole Bouchey 8:23am February 25, 2017)

(Debby Creager 5:29pm February 26, 2017)

Can't wait to read .
(Debby Creager 5:31pm February 26, 2017)

I would have to go with Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter.
(Glenna Morrison 8:59pm February 27, 2017)

What wonderful books you all have suggested! A treasure
trove. A few I have read include The Bluest Eye by Toni
Morrison. She is always a powerful purveyor of sense of
place. I'd like to read about historical New York. What's
a book you like, Irene.I think I've read about The
Railwayman's Wife. That goes on my list, too. Thank you
all.
(Barbara Crane 9:02pm February 27, 2017)

I love to read books that center on places I have travelled
to--it just make the experience seem more real that way!
(Nancy Ludvik 4:24pm February 28, 2017)

Sounds like a good book - I really enjoy historical
fiction.
(Sandy Haber 8:55pm February 28, 2017)

My love of novels that are so descriptive that they take me to their setting started years ago with Mary Stewart.
(Mary Songer 3:44pm March 1, 2017)

sounds like be very interseting
(Philip Halter 8:12pm March 1, 2017)

I have never read anything that gave me a sense of place. I did like finding out
that Los Angeles waa something different than it is today. The history of my
town was interesting to find out about. It was considered at one time to be the
capital of the state.
(Diane McMahon 8:31am March 2, 2017)

It's fascinating to discover the past, to find out how different the landscape was a hundred or more years ago. The area where I live had huge long leaf pine trees. All of that changed when lumber companies arrived with their saws during the latter part of the 1800's and then a hurricane finished changing the landscape completely around 1909.
(Anna Speed 1:09pm March 2, 2017)

Sounds like a great read. Thanks for the giveaway.
Marilyn
(Marilyn Collins 2:57pm March 2, 2017)

One second after. The audio book is awesome
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