History of the Sierra Nevada

This book takes us inside the adventure, hardships, and joys peculiar to the packing trade. Part One is an account of the evolution of the packing ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of the beginnings of the southern Sierra Nevada, the High Sierra region, from its birth to the historic era. It descri...

Reducere. My First Summer in the Sierra is the incredible true story of John Muir's iconic time spent working in the California mountain range of the Sierra ...

Reducere. A critical era in California's history and development-the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada-is thoroughly and colorfully document...

Reducere. The Sierra Nevada region is a land of alpine lakes, ubiquitous mountains, and meadows filled with a seemingly endless variety of wildflowers. This ...

Reducere. Tales Along El Camino SIerra Volume II continues with more classic and little known stories of history that have occured along beloved Highway 395....

Reducere. The Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the ...

Reducere. Saddle up and ride the winding trails of the Sierra through the pages of this book. In the not so distant past, exploration and settlement of this ...

Reducere. This beautifully produced deep dive into Yosemite National Park features stunning photography by Robb Hirsch and fascinating natural history from k...

Reducere. The 1849 Gold Rush lives today throughout Northern California, from the name of a San Francisco football team to the many small towns -- including ...

Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in ...

Reducere. In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, ``a wilderness, `` he wrote, ``of two thousand miles diameter.`` D...

The great eastern front of California's Sierra Nevada and the parallel, similarly high White and Inyo Mountains; these are the lands of "the Inyo, ...

Reducere. "Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad...

Reducere. Plan and Enjoy Self-Guided Inn-to-Inn Hikes Leave the car behind, and go on a multiday hiking adventure in Northern California. Cross the Sierra in...

Reducere. Tens of thousands of men from southern China changed the course of American history with their tireless work in the California gold fields in the 1...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROliver Le Carrer brings us a fascinating history and armchair journey to the world's most dangerous and frightful places, ...

Reducere. Drinking local harks back to the founding of Asheville in 1798. Whether it be moonshine or craft beer, the culture of local hooch is deeply ingrain...

DescriptionA groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America o...

DescriptionCarson City has the distinction of being one of the least populated state capitals in the nation, but its contributions to Nevada's hist...

Reducere. The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social histor...

Reducere. New England stagemen followed thousands of bedazzled gold rushers out west in 1849, carving out the first public overland transportation routes in ...

Reducere. Step across the threshold of a haunted hotel in California's renowned Gold Country and encounter phantom figures of yesteryear. Wispy apparitions o...

Yosemite National Park is the crown jewel of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. This gorgeous, full-color travel guidebook reveals the highlight...

Reducere. Since moving to Davis fifty years ago, Doug Waterman has been privileged to indulge his interest in cycling as a member of the Davis Bicycle Club. ...

Reducere. For thousands of years the Washoe people have lived in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the center of their lands sits beautiful Lake...

Reducere. Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their "lovely Deseret, " a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fr...

Reducere. East of the rugged Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley lies Manzanar. Founded in 1910 as a fruit-growing colony, it was named in Spanish for...

Reducere. One of the original 27 counties of California, Mariposa County, located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and containing more than 900, 000...

Reducere. Ranch wife, camp cook, photo-journalist, and amateur historian Janie Tippett continues her thirty-one years of newspaper columns chronicling the li...

Reducere. DescriptionGertrude's Tahoe Adventures in Time, tells the story of Gertrude, a Tahoe girl who meets a magic maiden, Lily Fa Lo. Together they journ...

Reducere. The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. It's also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expan...

Reducere. The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving t...

Reducere. Lake Tahoe is the gem of the Sierra Nevada. Those who visit this beautiful Lake of the Sky may share Mark Twain s impression of the place as he cam...

Reducere. Stories of the American West by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of North and South, "the best historical novelist of our time" (Patricia C...

DescriptionIn 1844, two years before the Donner Party, the Stevens-Murphy company left Missouri to be the first wagons into California through the ...

Contributor(s): Author: National Geographic Maps - Trails Illust- Waterproof - Tear-Resistant - Topographic MapNational Geographic's Map Guide of t...

Reducere. The Fields of Silver and Gold series brings the past alive. Meet the trailblazers and the pioneers, the first people and the famous explorers, the ...

Reducere. William Allen White Childens Book AwardWANTED: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. O...

Reducere. In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper int...

Reducere. "A brave and daring writer." --Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of Shanghai Girls The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammot...

Reducere. In 2001, Kathy Baldock, a straight conservative evangelical Christian, met Netto Montoya, a lesbian Native American, on the local hiking trails nea...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the world s most spectacular places, the Grand Canyon annually attracts over 4 million visitors who peer over the edge of the aby...

Reducere. From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier"An ide...

Reducere. From the award-winning author of Eliza Waite comes a gripping tale of adventure and survival based on the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party ...

Reducere. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada without food, The Donner Party are led to the slaughter. After being manipulated and coerced into a string of bad deci...

Reducere. In Standoff at High Noon, the sequel to Old West Showdown, coauthors Kellen Cutsforth and Bill Markley again investigate ten well-known, controvers...

Reducere. DescriptionTold in riveting, keenly observed poetry, a moving first-person narrative as experienced by a young survivor of the tragic Donner Party ...