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A Journey into Steinbeck's California

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by Susan Shillinglaw


  Murphy home, 28–29

  National Steinbeck Center, 28–29, 28

  Nesbitt house, 25, 26

  Old Post Office, 30

  Old Town, 21–27

  Roosevelt School, 24–25

  Salinas High School, 30

  Sherwood Park, 15

  Sperry Flour Mill, 18, 22, 29

  Steinbeck family home, 18–21, 18

  Steinbeck feed store, 20, 30

  201 Main Street, 29

  210–14 Main Street, 30

  247 Main Street, 29

  Wagner house, 23–24

  map, 17

  public book burning in, 26, 30, 157

  social structure, 14, 16

  Wanderers Club, 19

  Salinas High School, 30

  Salinas Index, 40

  Salinas River, 7, 8, 33, 43, 67

  Salinas Valley, 3, 4, 6, 6, 8–9, 65, 66, 142

  agriculture in, 33–37, 44

  history of, 9–10, 35

  laborers in, 36, 37

  locales

  Corral de Tierra, 42–43, 137

  Fort Hunter Liggett, 45

  Fremont Peak, 37–39, 38

  Hollister, 39

  Jolon, 5, 44–45

  King City, 47

  Mission Soledad, 8, 44, 44

  Mount Toro, 45

  River Road, 44

  Salinas River, 7, 8, 33, 43, 67

  San Antonio de Padua Mission, 8, 46, 46

  San Juan Bautista, 39

  Spreckels Sugar Company, 40–42, 40, 41

  map, 38

  mountain ranges bordering, 7–8

  as template for human struggles, 6–7

  See also Monterey County

  “Salinas Valley, The,” 21

  See also East of Eden (1952)

  Sam Hamilton (East of Eden), 66

  San Antonio de Padua Mission, 8, 46, 46

  San Antonio Valley, 44–46, 44

  San Carlos Borromeo Mission, 69

  San Francisco, 61

  San Francisco Chronicle, 61, 149

  San Francisco Examiner, 61

  San Francisco News, 144

  San Juan Bautista Mission, 8, 40

  San Juan Grade Road, 38, 39–40

  Santa Barbara, Mission architectural style of, 70

  Santa Clara Valley, 151

  Santa Cruz, 67

  Santa Cruz Mountains, 151

  Santa Lucia Range, 7, 34, 44

  Santa Rosalia (Mexico), 163, 169

  sardine industry, 116

  Scotch Bakery (Pacific Grove), 98, 98

  Scott, Elaine. See Steinbeck, Elaine Scott

  Sea of Cortez (1941), 5, 10, 31, 93, 98, 100, 110, 124, 161, 165, 166

  Sea of Cortez (Mexico), 162, 165–166, 168–169

  sea otters, 105

  Seaside, 67

  Sentinel Point, 79

  Serra, Junipero, 24, 69, 130

  17–Mile Drive, 74, 75, 77, 78–79

  Sheffield, Carlton, 53, 55, 60, 62–63, 155

  Sheffield, Maryon, 63

  Sheriff Quinn (East of Eden), 26

  Sherwood Park (Salinas), 15

  short–handled hoe, 39

  Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957), 53

  Sierra Nevada mountains, 57–58, 71

  Sinclair, Upton, 131

  Slim Volume to End Slim Volumes, A (C. Steinbeck), 85

  “Snake, The,” 110

  Soledad, 5

  Soledad Mission, 8, 44, 44

  Sonny Boy (Sweet Thursday), 127

  “southering,” 164

  Southern Pacific Railroad, 30, 71, 73, 104

  Sperry Flour Mill (Salinas), 18, 22, 29

  Spreckels, Claus, 40, 74

  Spreckels (Salinas Valley), 9, 40–42, 41, 49

  Spreckels Sugar Factory, 14, 18, 40–42, 40, 41, 51, 54

  Stackpole, Peter, 126

  Stackpole, Robert, 156

  Stanford, Jane, 50

  Stanford, Leland, 50, 73

  Stanford Spectator, 54, 55

  Stanford University, 20, 48–49, 49, 50–55, 57, 104, 123

  Stanford Women’s Unit for Relief Work in France, 55

  Steffens home (Carmel), 139

  Steffens, Lincoln, 135, 139, 156

  Steinbeck, Beth (sister), 18

  Steinbeck, Carol Henning (first wife), 21, 53, 60, 60, 63, 65, 83, 84–88, 93, 100, 104, 111, 132, 136, 137, 151, 156, 158, 158

  A Slim Volume to End Slim Volumes, 85

  collaboration on Steinbeck bust, 117

  as editor for Steinbeck, 147, 157

  friendship with Beth Ingels, 137

  in Los Gatos, 141, 154–156

  nude sportswomen series, 85

  possible pregnancy, 87

  relationship with Joseph Campbell, 114

  Steinbeck, Elaine Scott (third wife), 27, 28, 31, 55, 79, 111, 131, 174, 174

  Steinbeck, Esther (sister), 18, 20, 27, 67, 100

  Steinbeck family home (Salinas), 18–21, 18

  Steinbeck feed store (Salinas), 20, 30

  Steinbeck, Gwyn Conger (second wife), 21, 24, 39, 61, 93, 124, 152, 164, 165, 174

  Steinbeck House restaurant, 20–21

  Steinbeck, John

  aquarium deal proposed by, 104–105

  archives, 55

  burning of books written by, 26, 30, 155, 157

  in Carmel, 132–135

  childhood, 13–14, 18–21, 33

  death and burial, 30–31, 31

  dogs owned by, 59, 90–91, 165, 174

  ecological and holistic thought, 104, 150

  education, 21, 24–25, 49, 50–55, 104

  employment

  Bemis Brothers Bag Company, 61

  in New York, 56–57

  Spreckels Sugar Company, 42, 51, 54

  fishing as pastime of, 111–112

  gardens of, 89

  as “have–not,” 42

  honors suggested for, 26–27

  images, 175

  1908, 19

  1919, 13

  1930s, 83, 157

  1938, 111

  1945, 164

  1948, 21

  1960, 64–65, 79, 161

  1960s, 175

  1961, 11

  bust in Steinbeck Plaza, 117

  with Charlie, 174

  with Elaine and sons, 174

  with Glenn Graves, 43

  postal stamp, 3

  with Ricketts, 165

  Stanford, 49, 54

  importance of friendships to, 54, 55

  as letter writer, 62

  life timeline, 177–180

  in Los Gatos, 141–142, 154–155, 157–158

  marriages

  Carol, 21, 53, 60, 60, 63, 65, 84–88, 85, 93, 100, 104, 132, 136, 137, 141, 151, 157, 158, 158

  Elaine, 27, 28, 31, 55, 79, 113, 131, 174

  Gwyn, 21, 24, 39, 61, 93, 124, 152, 164, 165, 174

  McIntosh & Otis as agents for, 53, 104–105

  metaphysical beliefs, 111–112, 114, 136

  in Mexico, 161, 162–166

  in Monterey, 124–127

  in New York City, 56–57, 88, 111, 161, 174–175

  Nobel Prize, 18, 55

  in Pacific Grove, 83–105

  political radicalism, 139, 143–144, 146–147

  proposed theater naming, 119

  protest over Japanese internment, 16

  relationship with Ricketts, 21, 107–108, 111–113, 115

  residences

  Eagle Rock, 60, 62–63

  Los Gatos (Biddle Ranch/Brush Road house), 154, 155, 157–158

  Los Gatos (Greenwood Lane), 154–155, 154

  Monterey (Lara–Soto adobe), 124, 124

  New York City, 111, 167

  Pacific Grove (147 11th St.), 10, 87–88, 87, 88, 89, 111

  Pacific Grove (425 Eardley), 93, 94

  Salinas (132 Central Avenue), 18–21, 18

  Sag Harbor, 88, 111, 174

  in Salinas, 14–27

  in San
Francisco, 61

  Sea of Cortez expedition, 163–166, 166, 169–171

  social conscience of, 37

  in Tahoe, 35, 51, 53, 55, 57–60, 58–59

  “Tortilla Flat” recipe, 75

  as water–gazer, 111–112, 174

  women in life of, 22–23

  writing

  “ALL” in, 10

  borderland motif in, 9–10

  child’s vision of nature in, 10–11

  creative process, 85–87, 89

  descriptive language, 6, 7

  fire as theme in, 80–81

  “haves” versus “have–nots” in, 42, 56–57, 75, 77, 80

  human interaction with nature, 6–8

  importance of anonymity to, 88

  land use as leitmotif in, 80–81, 149

  layers or levels in, 5, 150

  naturalism and modernism in, 138

  proletarian approach, 142–144, 147

  realism distrusted by, 136, 138

  search for America in, 11

  sense of history in, 8–9, 70–71

  sense of place, 5–6

  value and dignity of labor in, 37

  “westering” in, 28, 31, 66, 164

  Steinbeck, John Adolph (grandfather), 5, 89

  Steinbeck, John Ernst (father), 18–19, 19, 20, 30, 35, 42, 59, 92

  Steinbeck, John IV (son), 174

  Steinbeck, Mary (sister), 18, 19, 20, 33, 103, 104

  Steinbeck, Olive Hamilton (mother), 18, 19–20, 19, 25, 25, 58, 163

  Steinbeck Plaza (Cannery Row), 117

  Steinbeck, Thom (son), 54, 124, 165, 174

  Stephens, James, 114

  Sterling, George, 131

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 71, 114

  Stillwater Cove, 79

  Street, Toby, 54, 60, 67

  “Surrealistic Night in an Enchanted Forest,” 76

  Suzy ( Sweet Thursday), 101, 125

  Sweet Thursday, 68, 77, 80, 92, 93, 95, 100, 101, 110, 113, 121, 127

  Tahoe, Lake, 57–60

  Tahoe Tavern, 57–58

  Taylor, Frank J., 155

  Taylor, Paul, 148

  Teresina Cortez (Tortilla Flat), 77

  Testarossa Winery (Los Gatos), 153, 155

  Tillie (Steinbeck dog), 90

  To a God Unknown (1933), 6, 45, 46, 53, 114, 136

  Toby (Steinbeck dog), 91

  Tom Joad ( Grapes of Wrath), 8

  Tor House (Carmel), 137

  Torelli (Tortilla Flat), 70

  Tortilla Flat (1935), 21, 27, 68, 70–71, 76, 77, 135, 161

  fire in, 80–81, 81

  locale of, 75

  paisanos in, 70, 72–73, 80–81, 113

  Tracy, Spencer, 158

  Travels with Charley (1962), 11, 28, 40, 45, 88, 124, 130

  Truckee, 57

  Ulloa, Francisco de, 165

  Uncle John (The Grapes of Wrath), 47

  United Farmworkers Union (UFW), 39

  University of California at Berkeley, 50, 51

  U.S. Navy, 74

  Valjean, Nelson, 75

  Valley of the Moon, The (London), 131

  Vanderbilt family, 76

  Vasquez, Tiburcio, 137

  Verbek, Pol, 154

  Viva Zapata! (1952), 161, 167

  Vizcaíno, Sebastián, 69

  Wagner house (Salinas), 23–24

  Wagner, Max, 23, 33, 162

  Walker, Franklin, 132

  Wanderers Club (Salinas), 19

  water, metaphysical importance of, 111–112, 174

  Watsonville, 67

  Weeks, William, 30

  West, George, 144

  “westering,” 28, 31, 66, 164

  Western Flyer, 166, 167

  Weston, Chan, 138

  Weston, Cole, 138

  Weston, Edward, 135, 138

  Weston Gallery (Carmel), 138

  Weston, Neill, 138

  Wharf #2 (Monterey), 127

  Whitaker, Francis, 91, 134

  White, Emil, 75

  “White Quail, The,” 88

  Whitman, Walt, 112, 114

  Wilhelmson, Carl, 51, 53, 61

  William (Cannery Row), 101, 126

  Williams, Everett “Red,” 98, 98, 126

  Williams sisters (East of Eden), 23

  Willie (Steinbeck dog), 165

  Wing Chong, 102, 122

  Winter, Ella, 139

  Wojciechowski, Henry, 126

  Wolfe, Thomas, 11

  Won Yee, 122–123

  Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 156

  Woods, Flora, 127

  Work, Tom, 126

  Works Progress Administration (WPA), 24, 91

  Writers Take Sides (1938), 143–144

  Yoknapatawpha County, 4

  Yosemite, 111

  “Youth” (Conrad), 114

  Credits

  Art

  Cover art, Landscape with Red Pony, 1999, by David Ligare, Collection Knight Ridder Corporation, San Jose, CA.

  Photo on page 47 (Hamilton Ranch) by Richard Allman, used courtesy of the photographer.

  Images on pages 60, 83, 85, 90 (dog), 91 (scrap), 154, and 157 (Carol and friends) courtesy Sharon Brown Bacon.

  Image on page 56 courtesy Brown Brothers.

  The following images are courtesy of the California Views Collection: page 61 (file 93-46-24; James K. Piggott, photographer), page 64 (file 88-084-0001; photographer unknown), page 114 (file 99-26-06; photographer unknown, summer of 1932), page 128 (file 71-001-0486; Lewis Josselyn, photographer), page 131 (wikiup; file 3183; E. A. Cohen, photographer, April 1908).

  Image on pages 126, 152 (Gwyn), and 179 courtesy Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University.

  Image on page 171 (Cabo San Lucas) courtesy of Linda Cicero.

  Images on pages 40 and 41 (Spreckels and Spreckels ad) are from the collection of Jim Conway.

  Image on pages 126, 152 (Gwyn), and 179 courtesy Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University.

  Drawing on page 107 by Walter F. Fisher in Anne B. Fisher, Salinas, the Upside-Down River (New York, Ferrar & Rinehart, 1945).

  Images on pages 162 (Cabo San Lucas), 163, and 164 (truck) courtesy of Bill Gilly.

  Painting on page 178 by Penny Worthington, courtesy of Steven Hauk Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA.

  Image on page 90 (Chautauqua program) courtesy of Miller Library, Hopkins Marine Station.

  Images on pages 81, 116 (label), 121, 178 (book cover), and back cover (book cover) from the collection of Jim Johnson.

  Image on page 59 courtesy of Lake Tahoe Historical Society.

  The following images are from the Library of Congress: page 39 (Cesar Chavez), Prints & Photographs Division LC-USZ62-111017]; 139 (Lincoln Steffens), Prints & Photographs Division [LC-DIG-ggbain-05710]; 143 (Woman at the Dump), Prints & Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-122467]; 145 (Arvin migrant camp), Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection [LC-USF34-009892-C]; 146 (Tom Collins), Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, [LC-USF34-009880-E]; 148 (tear gassing), Prints & Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-122467], 150 (Nipomo), Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection [LC-DIG-ppmsca-03054].

  Painting on page 45, Landscape with Mt. Toro, 2004, by David Ligare, courtesy of Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

  Images on pages 141 and 158 courtesy of Los Gatos Library.

  Image on page 146 (cover) is reprinted courtesy of the Simon Lubin Society.

  Images on pages 28 (Chinatown) and 29 courtesy of Monterey County Historical Society.

  The following are courtesy of the Monterey Public Library, California History Room: images on pages 9 (Chinatown, J. K. Oliver, photographer), 66, 69 (visitors on Lovers Point; Morgan Collection), 73 (Morgan Collection), 75 (Ruth Speakman, photographer), 77, 82, 101 (lighthouse; R. J. Arnold, photographer), 102 (Daniel Freeman, photographer), 103, 123 (Rey Ruppel, photographer), 131 (Pine Inn, L. S. Slevin, photographer), 136 (Harbick Collection),
137 (Robinson Jeffers; Morgan Collection), and 138 (George A. Cain, photographer, Harbick Collection)

  Photos on pages 11 and 174 (JS with Charley) ©1991 Hans Namuth Estate, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.

  Images on pages 9 (workers; Edwin F. Halloran Collection), 20, 21, 32, 34 (workers; Edwin F. Halloran Collection), 43 (JS and Glenn Graves), 54, 79, 92, 149 (from the Valley of the World Agriculture Exhibition), 152 (Gwen and mother), 155, 157 (JS), 164 (JS and Gwyn), 165 (Willie), 167 (crew), 174 (JS and family), 175, 177, and back cover (workers; Edwin F. Halloran Collection) courtesy of National Steinbeck Center, Salinas.

  Photo on page 111 and back cover (JS) by Sonya Noskowiak, used by permission of Arthur Noskowiak.

  Image on page 156 (Wood) courtesy of Oregon Historical Society, #CN023873.

  Images on pages 91 (tent cabins), 95, and 101 (Lovers Point), and 104 courtesy of Pacific Grove Heritage Society.

  Images on pages 65, 68, 71, 72, 74 (photo by Julian P. Graham), 76 (photo by Julian P. Graham), 78, and 125 courtesy of Pebble Beach Company Lagorio Archives.

  Image on page 165 (JS, Ricketts, and friends) courtesy of Katharine A. Rodger and Ed Ricketts, Jr.

  Image on page 80 is courtesy of the San Francisco Public Library.

  Images on pages 108, 113 (Ricketts), and 120 (chicken walk) © Peter Stackpole/Time Life/Getty Images.

  Images on pages 5, 13, 19, 25 (Olive), 47 (Hamiltons), 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 62, 84 (cottage, 1908), courtesy Stanford University, Department of Special Collections and University Archives.

  Image on page 180 © Fred Stein, courtesy of Peter Stein.

  Image on page 140 from the John Steinbeck Collection (#6239), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia.

  Images on pages 14, 70 (Carmel Mission), and 124 (Colton Hall) courtesy of Charles Willis.

  All other photographs are by Nancy Burnett. All other images are either in the author’s collection or in the public domain.

  Text

  All previously unpublished extracts © 2006 by Waverly Kaffaga, Executrix of the Estate of Elaine A. Steinbeck. Extracts from Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck, © 1935, renewed © 1963 by John Steinbeck. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.

  Extracts from Steinbeck: A Life in Letters by Elaine A. Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten, editors, © 1952 by John Steinbeck, © 1969 by The Estate of John Steinbeck, © 1975 by Elaine A. Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. and Penguin UK.

  Extracts from The Log From the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck, © 1941 by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts. Copyright renewed © 1969 by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts Jr. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

 

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