The Golden Corridor book

The Golden Corridor, 19th century northern California from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe, including Sacramento, Folsom, Placerville, the High Sierra, Truckee, Dutch Flat, Auburn, Grass Valley and Nevada City. This series of books was written in the 19th century and recently compiled. There is no intrepretation and the primary source documents from which they are compiled are edited only for length. The core text comes from circa 1880 history books and the side bars from diaries, journals, newspapers, and letters. As one reviewer stated: "The stories are often hilarious - relating tales of adventures and misadventures by miners, politicians, families, muleskinners, shopkeepers, saloonkeepers, sherriffs, lynch mobs, judges and a variety of ne'r-do-wells who populated the Sierra foothills during the time of the gold rush. There are also many tales of tragedy as greed, accidents and recklessness claimed the lives of many people unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or who happened to look at the wrong person in the wrong way." Educational and entertaining, you'll find 202 pages in The Golden Corridor with a restored photo on every page.