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There are few pleasures as fine as curling up with a great book. Or sometimes you need hard-to-find information. We've listed a few of our favorite in-print books about the California Sierra Nevada foothills. You may purchase them online at substantial discounts through Amazon.com. |
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| Hands down, this is the best researched and best written book on this remarkable era.
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This delightful, slightly surreal novel by Isabel Allende traces the adventures of a young woman who comes to California from Chile during the Gold Rush.
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Here's one of the top books about the Calfornia Gold Rush, written by Malcolm Rohrbough.
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Looking for the best flower guide to the Sierra Nevada foothills? You'll find it in this book by Toni Fauver.
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This independently published novel by Naida West is an intense account of the tragic demise of California Native Americans before and during the Gold Rush.
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| Written by Barbara Braasch et al., this exhaustively detailed book is arguably the best guidebook to the California Gold Country.
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During the California Gold Rush, women were a rare commodity. This extensively researched and well-written book by JoAnn Levy explores the roles of women during this tumultuous era.
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Slightly out of date, this book by Leslie Kelly is nevertheless one of the better guidebooks to the Gold Country.
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This eloquent little book, written a state park ranger about the wild river canyons south of Auburn, has gained national accolades. | This guide to California whitewater is now considered a classic. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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