Enjoy Miwoks To Missiles: A History Of Angel Island Portrayed By John Soennichsen Contained In Copy

got to camp on Angel Island once, many years ago, It was a magical place, once the last ferry departed and there was no one left on the island except my friend Ann, the rangers, and a herd of pushy deer.
This little book, written by an Angel Island Association historian, dwells heavily on the military history of the island and doesn't spend as much time as I would have liked on the years the island served as the Ellis Island of the West, but it is jammed full of historic photographs.
It's at its best when it stops focusing on what armaments were where on the island and turns its attention instead to the people who made

the island their home.
I was most fascinated by the story of the teenaged girl who was murdered at a party by the leader of the Infantry band.
They were both buried in the Post Cemetery, which seems to me to be a good basis for a ghost story.
The cemetery was dismantled when the Army left the island, but that doesn't guarantee the ghosts have moved on.
. . The first complete history of Angel Island a journey through more thanyears: Miwok Indians, Spanish explorers, soldiers, immigrants appear here in their varied roles a kaleidoscope of people and events fromto the present.
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