[Read free ebook] The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth (Creating the North American Landscape)
• Mr. Blake Gumprecht •
| #1118216 in Books | The Johns Hopkins University Press | 1999-04-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.27 x7.29 x10.29l, | File Name: 0801860474 | 380 pages |
||30 of 30 people found the following review helpful.| The River that Made Los Angeles|By A Customer|As a boy growing up in North Long Beach in the 1930s, I often camped out with my friends on the banks of the Los Angeles River. We would go skinny dipping, catch pollywogs and lizards, make willow whistles, and trudge through the oily sludge that lined the river bottom. We did not know that once the river flowed year-around cry|.com |Why is the historic center of Los Angeles located where it is, 15 miles from the ocean and 10 miles from the San Gabriel Mountains, on an arid plain? The answer is the Los Angeles River, which once flowed freely across that flat land. In his book, The
Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters and grizzly bears roamed its shores. The bountiful environment the river helped create supported one of the largest concentrations of Indians in North America. Today, the river is made almost entirely of concrete. Chain-link fence and barbed wire line its course. Shopping carts and trash litter its channel. Little water flows in the riv...
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