Great West Books
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Great West Books presents
Death Valley Books - a Special Collection
The Desert, Ghost Towns, Mining

The Far West and the Rockies
Historical Series, 1820–1875

Early California history and exploration,
San Francisco history, walking guide, & ghost stories,
San Francisco Memoirs, 1906 Earthquake,
Working for Wages - On the Road in the '50s,
Bay Area hidden walks,
Bay Area back roads,
Sierra Nevada exploration,
the Gold Rush, geographic names,
John Muir quotations, Tahoe artists,
historic Yosemite maps & Yosemite history,
biographies of Meriwether Lewis and Henry Miller,
autobiography of Isobel Field,
Contra Costa County history,
Angel Island history and stories.

NEW TITLES IN RED

SAN FRANCISCO
AND THE BAY AREA
   Mud Blood, and Gold
           San Francisco in 1849

   Exploring the Back Roads
                 28 Day Trips in the Greater Bay Area

   Haunted San Francisco

  Historic Walks in San Francisco

   Historic San Francisco, a Concise History and Guide

   San Francisco Memoirs 1835 to 1851

  More San Francisco Memoirs 1852 to 1899

   Three Fearful Days, San Francisco Memoirs of the 1906 earthquake & fire


  Bummer & Lazarus, San Francisco's Famous Dogs


   San Francisco/Yerba Buena
From the Beginning to the Gold Rush, 1769–1849

  Hidden Walks in the East Bay & Marin

   Everybody's San Francisco Cookbook

Russian Hill: The Summit, 1853-1906
San Francisco Nightlife Guide
San Francisco Budget Gourmet
The Discovery of San Francisco Bay

SIERRA NEVADA
  Sierra Nevada Place Names
               From Abbot to Zumwalt

   Splendid Mountains
                   Early Exploration in the Sierra Nevada

YOSEMITE
   Yosemite Place Names

  The Call of Gold
Yosemite's Innkeepers     Yosemite Tomboy        Protecting Paradise
John Muir in Yosemite     Galen Clark
Pioneers in Petticoats      Yosemite Valley Railroad
Yosemite's Yesterdays
Five historic Yosemite maps, from 1865 to 1896

GOLD RUSH
   To the Golden Shore
                       America Goes to California—1849

  Bright Gem of the Western Seas
             California 1846–1852

   Outline History of an Expedition to California.

The Call of Gold
True Tales on the Gold Road to Yosemite

LAKE TAHOE
   Embracing Scenes About Lakes Tahoe & Donner
                                     Painters, Illustrators & Sketch Artists, 1855–1915

   Tahoe Place Names

JOHN MUIR
   John Muir, In His Own Words
              A Book of Quotations

John Muir in Yosemite 

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
   This Life I've Loved
                 by Robert Louis Stevenson's stepdaughter

   Meriwether Lewis

  Working for Wages
                       On the Road in the Fifties

   The Cattle King
                    The Biography of Henry Miller

Santa Cruz Mountains, Palos Verdes,
Monterey, the Central Valley, the Mother Lode,
the Sierra, Death Valley, and hiking in Los Angeles
   Ghost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains

   East of the Gabilans 

   Palos Verdes Peninsula

Bicycling Country Roads      
Place Names of the Sierra Nevada
Hike Los Angeles, Volumes 1 and 2
The San Joaquin, the Sierra, and Beyond
Guide to the Theodore Solomons Trail
Death Valley Scotty

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
  Days Gone By, Volume 3

   Days Gone By, Volume 1

   Days Gone By, Volume 2

ANGEL ISLAND
   Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain

   Miwoks to Missiles

Angel Island Prisoner 1922