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
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
“Jack London’s (Almost) Arizona Adventure”
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
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
Where Women Made History: The Arequipa Sanatorium.
National Trust for Historic Preservation – Where Women Made History, Spring 2020