The Call of Gold

The Call of Gold
Author: Newell D. Chamberlain
Publisher: Great West Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780944220139

Newell D. Chamberlain was born in 1880 and spent his early years in San Francisco. In 1926 he established Camp Midpines, so named because it was "amidst the pines and midway between Merced and Yosemite." In the 1930s he compiled this chronicle of events during and after the Gold Rush -- drawing on newspapers of the time and interviews with early pioneers and their children. The result is this kaleidoscopic view of life in a dramatic era in the history of California. Illustrated with many historic photographs, some of which have not previously been published. Book jacket.

One Hundred Years in Yosemite

One Hundred Years in Yosemite
Author: Carl Parcher Russell
Publisher: Yosemite Assn
Total Pages: 269
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780939666607

This is a reprint of a time-tested history of Yosemite National Park by one of its most respected historians. It portrays in terms of human experience the growth of a distinct and unique conception of land management, and chronicles the thoughts and efforts of those who contributed to it. It tells of the obstacles overcome and of the pressures to break down the park concept and turn Yosemite to commercial and other ends that would deface its beauty and impair its significance. For these reasons, the book is more than a history. It traces the evolution of an idea.

Sierra Club Bulletin

Sierra Club Bulletin
Author: Sierra Club
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1915
Genre: Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
ISBN:

Includes section "Book reviews."

Prairie Ghost

Prairie Ghost
Author: Richard E McCabe
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2011-05-18
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1457109816

In this lavishly illustrated volume, Richard E. McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara and Henry M. Reeves explore the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one of fourteen pronghorn-like genera to survive the great extinction brought on by human migration into North America, the pronghorn has a long and unique history of interaction with humans on the continent, a history that until now has largely remained unwritten. With nearly 150 black-and-white photographs, 16 pages of color illustrations, plus original artwork by Daniel P. Metz, Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America tells the intriguing story of humans and these elusive big game mammals in an informative and entertaining fashion that will appeal to historians, biologists, sportsmen and the general reader alike.