Encina Hall (Stanford), 52, 52
Endangered Species Act, 105
Enea, Sparky, 118, 126
Escape from Witch Mountain (1975), 79
f.64 group, 138
Fallen Leaf Lake, 57, 58–59
Famous Recipes by Famous People (Del Monte Hotel), 75
Faulkner, William, 4, 155
Fauna ( Sweet Thursday), 114, 118
Feast of Lanterns, 68
Field, Maria Antonia, 126
Field, Sara Bard, 156
Field, Stevie, 126
Filipino workers, 36
“Fingers of Cloud: A Satire on College Protervity” (1924), 9, 36, 54
Finnegan’s Wake (Joyce), 114
Fisher, W. K., 104
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 37
Flavin, Martin Jr., 139
“Flight” (1938), 8
Flying A Service Station (Pacific Grove), 98, 98, 126
Forbes Mill Museum (Los Gatos), 158
Ford, Bob, 27
Ford, George and Martha, 158
Forgotten Village, The (1941), 161, 167
Fort Hunter Liggett, 45
Fort Ord, 67
Fortune magazine, 75
Forum, 155
Frémont, John, 38–39
Fremont Peak, 11, 37–39, 38
Fruit and Vegetable Workers Union, 149
Gabilan Mountains, 7, 34
Gable, Clark, 76
Galigher, Albert E., 108
Gannet, Lewis, 166
Garcia, Johnny, 127
Garden of Memories Cemetery (Salinas), 29, 30–31
George (Of Mice and Men), 42, 143–144
Gitano (The Red Pony), 162
“God in the Pipes, The,” 121
“Golden Handcuff, The” (1958), 61
Golden Restaurant (Monterey), 118
Golden Stairs restaurant (Monterey), 118
Gragg, Hattie, 125, 127
Granger railroad station (Salinas), 30
Grapes of Wrath, The (1939), 5, 8, 30, 37, 59, 93, 110, 139, 144, 167
banning of, 157
California seen in, 147, 149
critical and public response, 157
public burning of, 26, 155, 157
writing of, 142, 147, 149, 150, 152, 153
grasses, native to California, 35
Graves, Glenn, 23, 43
Graves house (Salinas), 23, 23
Great Depression, 83
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 66
Great Tide Pool (Pacific Grove), 99, 99
Gregory, Sue, 75
“Gretel” doll house (Carmel), 135
Griffin house (Salinas), 23
Grower-Shipper Vegetable Association of Central California, 149
Guaymas (Mexico), 169
Guest House (Asilomar), 100
Guggenheim, Harry, 111
Gulf of California. See Sea of Cortez
Gus D, 166
Hagemeyer, Dora, 133
Hallum, Monte, 75
Hamilton, Dessie, 22–23
Hamilton, Elizabeth (grandmother), 47, 47, 93
Hamilton Ranch, 47, 47
Hamilton, Samuel (grandfather), 30, 47, 47, 89
Hamilton, Tom (uncle), 47
“Hansel” doll house (Carmel), 135
“Harness, The” (1934), 35
Harper’s Magazine, 30, 66
Hartnell, William, 75
“Harvest Gypsies, The” (1936), 142, 145–146, 154, 167
Hat in Three Stages of Landing (Oldenburg and van Bruggen), 15
Hearst Castle, 100
Hearst, William Randolph, 46
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 114
Heintz, Dr. J. P., 125
Helicon Hall, 131
Hemingway, Ernest and Hadley, 84
Henning, Carol. See Steinbeck, Carol Henning
Henning, Idell, 60, 61, 114
Hermann’s (Monterey), 124
hermit crabs, 99, 99
Highway 1 (Monterey Peninsula), 66–67
history, expressed in Steinbeck’s books, 8–9
Hitchcock, Alfred, 76
Hollister, 39
Holman’s Department Store (Pacific Grove), 92, 94, 126
Hoovervilles, 145–146
Hope, Bob, 76, 79
Hopkins Marine Station (Pacific Grove), 102, 103, 104–105, 104, 105, 110, 113, 123
Hopkins, Mark, 73
Hopkins, Timothy, 104
Hopps, Martin, 25, 25
Hotel Del Monte (Monterey Peninsula), 71–77, 71, 76, 78, 80, 81, 84, 85, 125
Hotel Jeffrey (Salinas), 30
Hovden Cannery, 123
“How Edith McGillicuddy Met RLS” (1941), 30
Howe, Julia Ward, 151
Hunt Brothers Cannery (Los Gatos), 153
Huntington, Collis P., 73
Immigration Act of 1924, 36
In Dubious Battle (1936), 30, 37, 43, 67, 139, 142–143, 150, 167
Indian creation myth, 112, 112
Ingels, Beth, 135, 137
Inside Cannery Row (Ariss), 75
Iris Canyon (Monterey), 72, 75
Jack Rabbit Hill (Monterey), 75
Jacks, David, 71, 73, 89, 91
Jackson, Joseph Henry, 147, 158
Japanese, in California, 16, 36, 41
Jeffers, Robinson, 76, 112, 114, 131, 135, 136–137, 156
Jenny (East of Eden), 29
Jerry (Steinbeck dog), 59, 90
Jewell Park (Pacific Grove), 95
Joad family (Grapes of Wrath), 147, 149, 155, 166
Jody (The Red Pony), 7, 8, 38, 162
Joe Elegant (Sweet Thursday), 114
John Reed Club, 135, 139
John Steinbeck Library (Salinas), 26–27, 27
“Johnny Bear,” 67
Jolon, 5, 43, 44–45, 44
Jordan, David Starr, 50–51, 90–91, 104
Joseph Wayne (To a God Unknown), 66
Journal of a Novel (1969), 26
Joyce, James, 114
Jung, Carl, 114
Kalisa, 122, 123
Kate (East of Eden), 29–31
Keg, the (Travels with Charley), 124
Kern County, 142, 145, 145, 157
Ketchum, Hank, 127
King City, 47
Kirkland, Jack, 73
Krishnamurti, 114
la causa, 39
La Ida’s (Cannery Row), 123
La Paz (Mexico), 166, 169–170
labor
camps, 145, 145
field workers, 37
immigrant, 36
migrant workers, 44, 149, 150
strikes, 139, 142–143, 148–149
working conditions, 39
“L’Affaire Lettuceberg” (1938), 149
Lamour, Dorothy, 79
Lancet, 153
land use, as leitmotif, 80–81, 149
Lange, Dorothea, 143, 146, 148, 150
Lara–Soto adobe (Monterey), 124, 124
Lawrence, D. H., 3
Lee Chong (Cannery Row), 80, 102, 122
Lee (East of Eden), 36, 102, 113
Lennie (Of Mice and Men), 42, 144
lettuce strike, in Salinas, 139, 148–149
Lewis, Sinclair, 131
Life magazine, 126
Ligare, David, 45
Lighthouse Road (Pacific Grove), 93
Liza Hamilton (East of Eden), 94
Lloyd, Marjory, 91
Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951), 113
Loma Prieta earthquake, 51
London, Jack, 131
Lone Cypress (Monterey Peninsula), 79
Lone Star Café (Monterey), 118
Long Valley, The (1938), 9, 45, 87
Lopez, Barry, 6
Lorentz, Pare, 158
Loreto (Mexico), 170
Los Gatos, 141–142, 151, 153, 158
climate, 151
locales
Biddle Ranch (Brush Road house), 154, 155, 157–158
Cannery Corner,
153
Cats Restaurant, The 156
Forbes Mill Museum, 158
Greenwood Lane, 154–155
Lexington Reservoir, 158
Lyndon Hotel/Lyndon Plaza, 158
Sacred Heart Novitiate, 153
Testarossa Winery, 150
Wood and Field house, 156
map, 151
Lovejoy, Ritch, 60, 94, 113, 126
Lovejoy, Tal, 60, 63, 113
Lovers Point (Pacific Grove), 101, 104
Lyndon Hotel/Lyndon Plaza (Los Gatos), 158, 158
Mack (Cannery Row), 80, 115, 127
Main Street (Salinas), 22, 29–30
Malloys, the ( Cannery Row), 80
Mammoth Stables (Pacific Grove), 81
maps
Cannery Row, 110
Carmel, 134
Central California, 50
Los Gatos, 151
Mexico, 163
Monterey Peninsula, 71, 75
Pacific Grove, 86
Salinas, 17
Salinas Valley, 38
marine life, 99, 99, 104, 105, 105, 109–111, 116, 163, 170–171
Martin, Eduardo, 72, 73, 127
Masson, Paul, 156, 157
Maxim, Hudson, 94
Mazatlán (Mexico), 162
McIntosh & Otis, literary agents, 53, 104–105
McWilliams, Carey, 132, 148
Mecca (Carmel), 131
Medal for Bennie, A (1943), 16, 24
Melville, Herman, 111
Memorial Church (Stanford), 50, 51, 52
Mencken, H. L., 131
Menuhin, Yehudi, 156
Meredith, Burgess, 121, 158
Mexican laborers, 36, 41
Mexico
appeal of to Steinbeck, 161
locales
Cuernavaca, 164–165, 164
Mexico City, 163, 164
map, 163
See also Baja California; Sea of Cortez
Mexico City, 163, 164
Midsummernight (Wilhelmson), 53
migrant labor. See labor
Miller, Arthur, 139
Miller, Ted, 53
“Miracle of Tehepac, The,” 161
Mirrielees, Edith, 55, 55
Miss Cupp (high school math teacher), 55
Moby Dick (Melville), 111
Moderne style in art, 24
modernism, 138
Monroe, Marilyn, 67
Monterey Bay, 8, 66, 68, 70, 104, 116
Monterey Bay Aquarium (Monterey), 123, 123
Monterey (city), 5, 66–67, 68
Anglo development, 71–77
locales
adobe, 124
Alvarado Street, 124
Cannery Row, 5, 65, 67
Colton Hall, 124, 124
Del Monte Beach, 125, 127
El Encinal Cemetery, 100–101, 127
El Estero Park, Dennis the Menace Playground, 127
Old Fisherman’s Wharf, 77, 125
Public Library, 125
Wharf #2, 127
“Path of History,” 124
prostitution in, 118
Spanish settlement, 68–71
See also Cannery Row
Monterey, Condé de, 69
Monterey County, 3–5, 11
mountain ranges of, 7
wine trail, 44
See also Salinas Valley
Monterey County Courthouse (Salinas), 24
Monterey Jazz Festival, 113
Monterey Peninsula, 49, 63, 65–68, 75, 142, 158
economic and social development, 77, 80–81
fires on, 80, 81
locales
Carmel Mission, 8, 24, 69, 70
Castroville, 34, 67
Fort Ord, 67
Highway 1, 66–67
Hotel Del Monte, 71–77, 71, 77, 80
Presidio Museum, 69
Seaside, 67
Sentinel Point, 79
17-Mile Drive, 74, 75, 77, 78–79
map, 71, 75
paisanos on, 70, 72–73, 75, 77, 80–81, 113
as setting for Tortilla Flat, 75
Monterey Peninsula Herald, 68, 72, 75, 76, 103, 118, 122, 126, 127, 139
Monterey Plaza Hotel, 124
Monterey Trader, 118
Moore, Harry Thornton, 42, 142
Moore, Kalisa, 120, 122
Mora, Jo, 24, 130
Morgan, Henry, 56
Morgan, Julia, 46, 100
Mors, George, 30, 52, 54
Morse, Lucy, 72–73
Morse, Samuel F. B., 74, 76
Moss Landing, 67
Mount Toro, 45
Mountain Winery (Los Gatos), 157
Mr. Tiflin (The Red Pony), 19
Mrs. Palochico (Tortilla Flat), 135
Muir, John, 7
“Murder, The,” 42
Murphy, Dennis, 27
Murphy, Dr., 27
Murphy home (Salinas), 27
Murphy, Michael, 27
mustard seed, 35
My Favorite Brunette (1947), 79
National Steinbeck Center, 28–29, 28, 67
native grasses, 35
nature, child’s vision of, 10–11
Needham, Wilbur, 9–10
Negacol masks, 62–63, 63
Nesbitt house (Salinas), 25, 26
Nesbitt, William, 26
“New Monterey,” 107–108
New York American, 56
New York City, 56–57, 62, 161
New Yorker, The, 113, 134
Newell, Gordon, 136
Newell, Una, 137
Newsweek magazine, 126
Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby), 66
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 114
Nipomo, 150
Nuestra Senora de Loreto, Mission of, 170
Of Mice and Men (1937), 7–8, 10, 37, 42, 91, 139, 142, 143–144, 154, 167
Old Fisherman’s Wharf (Monterey), 77, 125
Old Post Office (Salinas), 30
Old Stage Road, 38, 39, 40
Old Tennis Shoes whiskey, 123
Oldenburg, Claes, 15
Older, Fremont, 156
Omar (Steinbeck dog), 59, 90
Otis, Elizabeth, 55, 111, 142, 146, 154, 162
Otsy Totsy dolls, 135
“Outer Shores, the,” 21
Pablo (Tortilla Flat), 135
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, 67
Pacific Grove, 5, 65, 68, 82–83, 83, 84, 87, 96–97, 151
as “city of homes,” 93–94
locales
Asilomar, 93, 100, 100
Chautauqua Hall, 90–91
Chinatown, 9
Chinese fishing village, 102–103
El Carmelo Cemetery, 100–101
El Carmelo Hotel, 95
Flying A Service Station, 98, 98
425 Eardly, 93, 93
Great Tide Pool, 99, 99
Guest House, 100
Holman’s Department Store, 92, 94, 126
Hopkins Marine Station, 102, 104–105, 104, 111, 115, 123
Jewell Park, 95
Lighthouse Road, 93
Lovers Point, 101, 104
147 11th Street, 87–88, 87, 88, 89, 111
Point Piños Lighthouse, 101, 101
Scotch Bakery, 98, 98
map, 86
monarch butterflies in, 93
museum, 95
roque courts, 95
Pacific Grove Retreat Association, 89
Pacific Improvement Company, 68, 74, 84, 91–92, 100, 104
Packard Foundation, 123
Paine, Robert Trent, 156
paisanos, 70, 72–73, 75, 77, 80–81, 113
Pajaro Valley, 43, 67
Palo Alto, 52
Parker, Dorothy, 134
Paso Robles, 34
Pastures of Heaven (1932), 9, 42, 43, 45, 137
Pearl, The, 124, 161, 167
Pease, H., 132
Pebble Beach golf course, 72, 74
Pebble Beach Lodge, 81
Peter, Paul, and Mary, 39
Pilon (Tortilla Flat), 72–73, 75, 127, 135
Pine Inn (Carmel), 131
Pioda, Charles, 42
Pipe Dream (Rogers and Hammerstein), 121
Pirate (Tortilla Flat), 90
Point Piños Lighthouse (Pacific Grove), 101, 101
Pomery, Harold, 157
Portolá expedition (1769), 45
Portolá, Gaspar de, 69
Powers, Frank H., 129
Powers, Stephen, 35
Presidio Museum, 69
prostitution, 118
Puerto Escondido (Mexico), 166
Ramona, 70
Raneri, Frank, 164
Ray, Martin, 157
Reagan, Ronald, 39
realism, 138
Red Pony Ranch, 33, 34
Red Pony, The (1937), 7, 8, 10, 66, 162
regionalism, 137
Remington, Frederick, 24
Renaissance Man of Cannery Row (Ricketts), 109
Reynolds, Mary Jane, 29
Ricketts, Edward F., 21, 65, 84, 85, 99, 104, 109, 113, 118, 119, 120, 132, 156, 156, 158, 165
Carmel stay, 135, 136
death of, 116, 127, 161
early life, 108–109
ecological and holistic thought, 104, 109–112
fictional characters based on, 100, 107, 110, 113, 120–124, 121, 124
funeral, 100–101
lab, 65, 80, 81, 105, 108, 109, 112–117, 127
poets enjoyed by, 112
on problem of unity, 114
relationship with Steinbeck, 107–108, 112–113, 115
scientific endeavors, 109–110
Sea of Cortez expedition, 110, 164, 165–166, 166, 169–171
as water–gazer, 112
Ricketts’s lab (Monterey), 65, 80, 81, 105, 108, 108, 109, 112–117, 127
River Road (Salinas Valley), 44
road trips, books about, 11
“Roan Stallion” (Jeffers), 136
Rocinante (Travels with Charley), 28, 88
Rogers, Ginger, 76
Romero, Eduardo, 72–73, 127
Romero, Tomás, 73
Roosevelt School (Salinas), 24–25
Roosevelt, Teddy, 78
roque, 95
Russell, Bertrand, 133
Sacred Heart Novitiate (Los Gatos), 153
Sag Harbor (New York), 88, 111, 174, 175
Salinas (city), 13, 65
California Rodeo, 15
Californian, 21
early history, 14
Japanese internment, 16
lettuce strike, 139, 148–149
locales
Bell’s Candy, 30, 144
Chinatown, 22, 28, 28, 29
downtown, 14
11 Station Place, 29
Garden of Memories Cemetery, 29, 30–31, 31
Granger railroad station, 30
Graves house, 23
Griffin house, 23
Hotel Jeffrey, 30
John Steinbeck Library, 26–27, 27
Main Street, 22, 29–30
Market Street/Castroville Street, 29
Monterey County Courthouse, 24