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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

MBG.jpg (3791 bytes)   Mud Blood, and Gold
           San Francisco in 1849

EXP.tif (44807 bytes)   Exploring the Back Roads
                 28 Day Trips in the Greater Bay Area

HAU.jpg (2841 bytes)   Haunted San Francisco

wpe1.jpg (3996 bytes)  Historic Walks in San Francisco

wpe2.jpg (2996 bytes)   Historic San Francisco, a Concise History and Guide

MEM.jpg (5800 bytes)   San Francisco Memoirs 1835 to 1851

MOR.jpg (5728 bytes)  More San Francisco Memoirs 1852 to 1899

TFD.jpg (5162 bytes)   Three Fearful Days, San Francisco Memoirs of the 1906 earthquake & fire


B&L.jpg (6226 bytes)  Bummer & Lazarus, San Francisco's Famous Dogs


YB.jpg (3335 bytes)   San Francisco/Yerba Buena
From the Beginning to the Gold Rush, 1769–1849

HW.jpg (6329 bytes)  Hidden Walks in the East Bay & Marin

EVSFC.jpg (8695 bytes)   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
9780944220238.jpg (143919 bytes)  Sierra Nevada Place Names
               From Abbot to Zumwalt

SM.jpg (6610 bytes)   Splendid Mountains
                   Early Exploration in the Sierra Nevada

YOSEMITE
YPN.jpg (7169 bytes)   Yosemite Place Names

COG.jpg (7120 bytes)  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

GS.jpg (6388 bytes)   To the Golden Shore
                       America Goes to California—1849

BG.jpg (6921 bytes)  Bright Gem of the Western Seas
             California 1846–1852

XOX.jpg (6858 bytes)   Outline History of an Expedition to California.

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


LAKE TAHOE

ES.jpg (8481 bytes)   Embracing Scenes About Lakes Tahoe & Donner
                                     Painters, Illustrators & Sketch Artists, 1855–1915

TPN.jpg (6564 bytes)   Tahoe Place Names


JOHN MUIR

JMQ.jpg (5264 bytes)   John Muir, In His Own Words
              A Book of Quotations

John Muir in Yosemite 


BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

TLIL.jpg (6416 bytes)   This Life I've Loved
                 by Robert Louis Stevenson's stepdaughter

ML.jpg (4895 bytes)   Meriwether Lewis

WW.jpg (6740 bytes)  Working for Wages
                       On the Road in the Fifties

CK.jpg (5213 bytes)   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

GT.jpg (5589 bytes)   Ghost Towns of the Santa Cruz Mountains

GAB.jpg (8804 bytes)   East of the Gabilans 

PVP.jpg (6300 bytes)   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

DGB3.jpg (6105 bytes)  Days Gone By, Volume 3

DGB1.jpg (6880 bytes)   Days Gone By, Volume 1

DGB2.jpg (5926 bytes)   Days Gone By, Volume 2


ANGEL ISLAND

KAI.jpg (7664 bytes)   Kai's Journey to Gold Mountain


MTM.jpg (5558 bytes)   Miwoks to Missiles

Angel Island Prisoner 1922