REGIONAL HISTORIES and BOOKS BY LOCAL AUTHORS

Some well-known books about Overland Journeys, Railroads, Gold Rush, and more...

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RAILROADS

NEW! Richard Raynor: on the Big Four of the Central Pacific Railroad-- The Associates: How Four Capitalists Created California

John Signor: Favorite work on the rail history of Donner Summit-- Donner Pass, Southern Pacific's Sierra Crossing

George Kraus: Classic work on the CPRR-- High Road to Promontory: Building the Central Pacific Across the High Sierra

DONNER PARTY

Donald L. Hardesty: The Archaeology Of The Donner Party (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities)

Peter R. Limburg: Deceived: The Story of the Donner Party

Eliza P. Donner: The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate

Virginia Reed Murphy: and edited by James Frazier Reed-- Across the Plains in the Donner Party

George Stewart: the most widely read (a dramatized version of the story)-- Ordeal by Hunger

Jack Steed: discovery of the original site-- The Donner Party Rescue Site: Johnson's Ranch on Bear River

GOLD RUSH AND OUTLAWS

John Boessenecker: Badge and Buckshot: Lawlessness in Old California

John Boessenecker: Gold Dust and Gunsmoke: Tales of Gold Rush Outlaws, Gunfighters, Lawmen, and Vigilantes

William Secrest: California Desperadoes : Stories of Early California Outlaws in Their Own Words

William Secrest: Dangerous Trails: Five Desperadoes of the Old West Coast

OVERLAND JOURNEYS--IN GENERAL

John D. Unruh: Wagon party classic--The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60

J.S. Holliday: Comprehensive work, diaries, letters and more-- The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience

Francis Farquhar: general historyHistory of the Sierra Nevada

Charles Graydon: trail historian explores and maps the Stevens Party Truckke River Route, 1844-- Trail of the First Wagons Over the Sierra Nevada (A Guide)

NEVADA COUNTY LOCAL HISTORY

Gerald Best: Nevada County Narrow Gauge

David Comstock: Gold Diggers and Camp Followers, 1845-1851

David Comstock: Greenbacks and Copperheads, 1859-1869 (Neveda County Chronicles)

David Comstock: Brides of the Gold Rush, 1851-1859 (The Nevada County chronicles)

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