San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community

by Edward Leo Lyman

In the mid-1800s San Bernardino emerged as one of the largest settlements in southern California. It surpassed Pueblo de los Angeles and San Diego in grain and lumber yields and boasted a burgeoning cattle industry and promising wine vineyards. But as a Mormon commune-the farthest outpost in Brigham Young's Rocky Mountain empire-the colony was threatened, and finally abandoned, in 1857 during the Utah war with the United States.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560850671
• ISBN13: 9781560850670
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Signature Books
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher