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CALIFORNIA'S HIDDEN GOLD: Nuggets From the State's Rich History.
by Pryor, Alton
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- ISBN 10
- 0966005376
- ISBN 13
- 9780966005370
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Roseville, CA:: Stagecoach Publishing, , (2002). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. 41 stories of California's past ranging from 'The Ship of Gold' where treasure hunters found this ship and recovered $1.6 million dollars worth of gold including 5200 newly minted Double Eagle coins; a story of California's first schoolteacher at the Santa Clara Mission; Mother Mary Baptist Russell and the Sisters of Mercy in San Francisco, wehre they worked feverishly to tend the victims of smallpox and cholera; the Miller and Lux cattle barons who could drive their cattle herds from the Mexican border to the Oregon border and never leave their own land and much more - including stories about Lillie Coit, the Yosemite Valley, the Modoc War, the wine industry, and the Winchester House. INSCRIBED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 199 pp. Cover is a photograph from the Keystone Mine in Amador County.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88279
- Title
- CALIFORNIA'S HIDDEN GOLD: Nuggets From the State's Rich History.
- Author
- Pryor, Alton
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0966005376
- ISBN 13
- 9780966005370
- Publisher
- Stagecoach Publishing,
- Place of Publication
- Roseville, CA:
- Date Published
- (2002)
- Bookseller catalogs
- California;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Ione, California
About Bookfever.com, IOBA
Celebrating our 30th year in business. We started selling books in the CompuServe Book Collecting forum in 1993, a few years before there was any commercial Internet. In 1998 we relocated our main business from Sacramento to the Sierra foothills of Amador County.
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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