California's Spanish Place-names: What They Mean and how They Got Here
- ISBN-10
- 0935382682
- ISBN-13
- 9780935382686
- Category
- Travel / Reference
- Pages
- 267
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Tiogo Publishing Company
- Authors
- Barbara Marinacci, Rudy Marinacci
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