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The Bookshelf

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We recommend the following books (and a few films) to learn more about the topics covered in Duende’s presentations. Note: the following links to Amazon.com benefit Duende by giving us a small portion of the purchase price.

  • Friendly Fire
  • Gunpowder Man
  • The Betsy Ross of the Bears
  • The Great Blight
  • Vivien

Friendly Fire

  • Friendly Fire by Rick FosterAdopted 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

  • Gunpowder ManChina 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

  • The Betsy Ross Of the BearsAn 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 Great BlightThe 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

  • VivienAn 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

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ABOLITION

ABOLITION tells the story of two friends, Frederick Douglass and John Brown, during the tumultuous decade leading up to the Civil War. Produced as an acclaimed two-man stage play in Sonora and Sacramento, Duende is now in production of a broadcast quality film adaptation.

Learn more about the progress of the film version, as well as the historical background of the stage play.

Theater venues interested in presenting our production of ABOLITION should contact us to discuss the possibilities.

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On the Blog

Tribute to Frederick Douglass

July 4, 2020 By Rick Foster

A Thumbnail View of Abolition

June 28, 2018 By Rick Foster

A Thumbnail Early Life of Frederick Douglass

June 28, 2018 By Rick Foster

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