Publications

Other Books, Articles and Stories
*and everything else I’ve ever written

“A House-Party on an Old Frontier Ranch:” How Arizona Became the Dude Ranch Capital of the World. Journal of Arizona History, Winter 2023.

Finalist for the SPUR Award from Western Writers of America

Books

501: The Evolution of the Jean

Brussels: Levi Strauss & Co., 2008

Levi Strauss & Co.

Published by Arcadia Publishing, 2007

The Archive: Levi’s Vintage Clothing

Tokyo: Levi Strauss Japan K.K., 2007.
Photographs by Ichigo Sugawara.

Fired By Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and Crafts Movement

Rohnert Park, CA: Pomegranate Press, 2000 (Co-author)

This Is A Pair Of Levi’s Jeans

San Francisco: Levi Strauss & Co., 1995 (Co-author, editor, photo editor)

Catalina Tile of the Magic Isle

Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, 1992 (Editor and co-author)

California Tile: The Golden Era

1910-1940, vol. II. Santa Monica: California Heritage Museum, 2004 (Contributor)

Short Stories

“The Wind and the Widow.” Honorable Mention, History Through Fiction Short Story Contest

“Incident at the Circle H.” Finalist, Longhorn Prize for Western Short Stories, Saddlebag Dispatches

“Goldie Hawn at the Good Karma Café.” Second place, The LAURA Short Fiction Contest, Women Writing the West Read Now

Articles

“Work, Worry, Interest and Fun: The life of Mary Shawver, dude ranching’s grand dame.”
Roundup, February 2024

“Dick Randall, the OTO, and the Enduring Legacy of Montana’s First Dude Ranch.”
Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Summer 2024

“Jack London’s (Almost) Arizona Adventure” The Wickenburg Sun, December 6, 2023

“Active Exertions: The Reverend Charles Morris Blake meets Arizona Territory.” Roundup magazine, February 2022.

Dude Ranching… in Sonoma County?

Sonoma Valley Sun, May 2021

How the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Gave Working Women a Place to Breathe
Nursing Clio, March 2020

Art as a Tonic: Making Pottery and Defeating Tuberculosis at the Arequipa Sanatorium
Nursing Clio, April 2020

Silence from the East.

Roundup, August 2018

Living the Outdoor Life In Fairfax.

Marin County Free Library, January 26, 2018

Jack London: For Love of the Land.

Kenwood Press, April 15, 2016

Women and the White Plague.

We’re History, February 23, 2016

‘Suma-ip’: In Remembrance of Those Before Us. History Lessons from the Chemehuevi Archives.

California Territorial Quarterly, Fall 2014

My Adventures with Denim: Glimpses Into Arizona’s Fashion History from the Levi Strauss & Co. Archives.

Journal of Arizona History, Spring 2013

Everyone Wears His Name: How Levi Strauss transformed the worlds of work and play.

Convergence, Fall 2008

True Blue: Why the youthful spirit of Levi’s jeans has never faded.

Arts & Living California, Fall 2008

Bus Stop 101.

BrooWaha, San Francisco edition, February 12, 2008
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Telling Dead Men’s Tales.

BrooWaha, San Francisco edition, April 3, 2007
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Saved By The Blonde.

BrooWaha, San Francisco edition, March 1, 2007
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Copper Rivets in the Silver State: The Little-Known  Story of How Levi’s Jeans were Born in Nevada.

Nevada Magazine, December 2006

Duncan McDuffie: Businessman and Conservationist.

Biographical article published in a variety of Bay Area newspapers, May 1987

Philip King Brown and the Arequipa Sanatorium.

Pacific Historian, Spring 1985

The Arequipa Pottery.

Ceramics Monthly, March 1987

The All-Night Museum.

Etude: New Voices in Literary Nonfiction, Spring 2004 (etude.uoregon.edu/spring2004).

The Famous Name Behind Another California  Sesquicentennial: Levi Strauss.

California Historian, Spring 2004

Imagine – paying $46,532 for pants full of holes!

California Historian, Spring 2002

Everlasting Love.

Sportswear International, November 2001

Black Telephones and Blue Denim: Business Archives  in California.

California History, Spring 1996 (Co-author)

Life In A Lung Resort.

Mediphors, Spring/Summer 1995

This Novel Employment of Untrained Hands.

California History, Fall 1994

For A Better World, Teach Better History.

San Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 1993

Albert Solon: Ceramist with a Sense of Humor,

Parts 1-4. Flash Point, the quarterly journal of the Tile Heritage Foundation,
October 1990-December 1991

High Living: Recipes From Southern Climes,
Parts I-II

The Californians, January-August 1991

The Legacy of Henry Krier: A Contractor in Contrasts.

Flash Point, July-September, 1989

Fred H. Wilde: His Life and Work,  Parts 1-4

Flash Point, January 1988–March, 1989

The History of Dude Ranch Memorabilia.

The Dude Ranchers’ Association, Spring 2020