Trade paperback, 364 pages
5.5 x 8.5, six maps, index.
ISBN: 0-944220-16-9.    $18.95 

Meriwether Lewis

A Biography

by Richard Dillon

Lewis was undoubtedly the greatest pathfinder this country has ever had. The crucial expedition that he and William Clark led up the Missouri River opened up the American West. This award-winning biography chronicles that bold voyage and probes the lesser-known aspects of Lewis's life: his youth in Virginia, his close relationship with Thomas Jefferson, his turbulent career as governor of the Louisiana Territory, and his tragic and mysterious death at 35.

Cover illustration: Up the Jefferson, by John Clymer.

Trade paperback, 380 pages,
5.5 x 8.25, 18 illustrations,
bibliographical reprise, index.
ISBN: 0-934136-15-7.
$12.95

Captain John Sutter

Sacramento Valley's Sainted Sinner

by Richard Dillon

John Augustus Sutter, "The Father of California," first settler of Sacramento, and the man on whose land gold was discovered, is one of the state's great enigmas. Was he just a schemer and adventurer? Or was he a generous, far-sighted dreamer ruined by the ungrateful hordes of '49ers who swarmed over Sutter's Fort when gold was discovered?

In this insightful account, distinguished historian Richard Dillon comes to definitive terms with the paradoxical personality and strange history of John Sutter.

Cover illustration: Portrait of John Sutter, by William Jewett

NOTE: This title is out of print. A few “hurt” copies remain,
available for $10.00 apiece.