Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt is a fifth-generation Oxnard native, a history teacher, and the author of several books about Oxnard, including The Day the New York Giants Came to Oxnard; The First Farmers of the Oxnard Plain; Beans, Beets, and Babies; and The Oxnard Pagoda-A Community Gathering Place. Sifting through the 2,000 images in his personal collection and many others from the Ventura County Historical Museum and the Oxnard Public Library, Maulhardt traces the early years of the city he knows and loves.