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Adopted by Indians: A True Story
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, edited by Malcolm Margolin
ISBN: 0-930588-93-2. #HEYD2986 paper$10.95
The children's version of our best-selling title Indian Summer, this book gives younger readers a close-up view of traditional California Indian life and early California.

The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
Vladimir Guerrero
ISBN: 1-59714-026-0. #HEYD2904 paper$16.95
240 pp (6 x 9), with maps
The epic true story of the journey to colonize San Francisco

Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly
Edited by Susan Snyder
ISBN: 1-890771-70-8. #HEYD2920 cloth$49.50
"There have always been bear stories, as long as there have been campfires and shadows in the night, and as long as humans have shared the earth with their fellow predators…"

Birds of Napa County
Hermann Heinzel
ISBN: 978-1-59714-030-0. #HEYD2928 paper$12.95
104 pages (4.25 x 9)
A birds-eye view of wine country

Bret Harte's Gold Rush: "Outcasts of Poker Flat," "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "Tennessee's Partner," and Other Favorites
Bret Harte
ISBN: 0-930588-88-6. #HEYD2978 paper$13.95
Fifteen classic tales bring the Gold Rush to life.

Califauna: A Literary Field Guide
Edited by Terry Beers and Emily Elrod
ISBN: 978-1-59714-049-2. #HEYD2895 paper$21.95
328 pages (6 x 9), with 16 pages of color images and a timeline
A lively collection in words and images of our fellow creatures.

California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present
Edited by Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, and Jack Hicks
ISBN: 1-890771-72-4. #HEYD2899 paper$21.95
California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present is an authoritative yet accessible collection that brings together 150 years of California poetry in one volume: a comprehensive historical anthology of the state’s poetry from the gold rush era to the present that offers the finest poetry by California authors of all schools and ideas.

Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend
Betty Goerke
ISBN: 978-1-59714-053-9. #HEYD2944 paper$21.95
A history of Marin County’s namesake and his people

Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California
Jan Timbrook, with botanical watercolors by Chris Chapman
ISBN: 978-1-59714-048-5. #HEYD2946 paper$27.95
272 pages (6 x 9), with illustrations throughout
Plant knowledge and use by the Chumash Indians of Southern California

Complete Guide to Yosemite National Park, 6th Edition, The
Stephen P. Medley
ISBN: 978-1-59714-087-4. #HEYD7160 paper$12.95
The authoritative guide to Yosemite National Park

Courthouses of California: An Illustrated History
Edited with an Introduction by Ray McDevitt
ISBN: 1-890771-49-X. #HEYD2976 cloth$50.00
A carefully researched and superbly designed photo-documentary book chronicling 150 years of judicial architecture in California.

Dawson’s Avian Kingdom:
Selected Writings by William Leon Dawson
Edited by Anna Neher
ISBN: 978-1-59714-062-1. #HEYD2906 paper$16.95
Marauding magpies, saucy blackbirds, and hurtling swifts

Death Valley in ’49
William Lewis Manly
ISBN: 1-890771-47-3. #HEYD2912 paper$18.95
The true story of the 49ers who blundered into Death Valley and their dramatic escape.

Deeper Than Gold:
A Guide to Indian Life in the Sierra Foothills
Brian Bibby, Photographs by Dugan Aguilar
ISBN: 0-930588-96-7. #HEYD2965 paper$18.95
Part guide, part literary tribute, part photo album, this beautifully designed book features the memories and knowledge of Gold Country’s first peoples—the Native Americans who know the area best.

The Dirt Is Red Here: Art and Poetry from Native California
Edited by Margaret Dubin
ISBN: 1-890771--54-6. #HEYD2943 paper$16.95
The Dirt is Red Here brings together works by many of today’s finest artists and poets of California’s Indian communities.

Discovering Nature’s Alphabet
Krystina Castella and Brian Boyl
ISBN: 1-59714-021-X. #HEYD2985 cloth$15.95
Let nature be your book!

Drawn West: Selections from the Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western Art and Americana from the Bancroft Library
Jack von Euw and Genoa Shepley
ISBN: 1-890771-92-9. #HEYD2923 cloth$39.95
Co-published with the Bancroft Library, UC BerkeleyCalifornia and the West in the days of exploration and settlement was a region full of adventure, danger, and wonders. And before there were cameras, artists depicted all of it.

Dream Songs and Ceremony: Reflections on Traditional California Indian Dance
Frank LaPena
ISBN: 1-890771-79-1. #HEYD2893 loth$25.00
With 16 full-color plates
A Great Valley Book
This collection of paintings by acclaimed artist Frank LaPena draws upon the symbols of California Indian dances—sacred events that cannot be photographed or videotaped. Himself a Nomtipom Wintu dancer, singer, and ceremonial leader, LaPena complements his vibrant paintings and poetry with an introduction and commentary.

Each A Mighty Voice: A Century of Speeches from The Commonwealth Club of California
Edited by Steven Boyd Saum, Preface by Gloria Duffy, Foreword by Kevin Starr
ISBN: 1-890771-87-2. #HEYD2971 cloth$24.95
Published in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California
The Commonwealth Club, the nation’s oldest and largest public affairs forum, has hosted presidents, national and world leaders, policymakers, leading lights in the arts and sciences, and countless celebrities, beginning with Theodore Roosevelt in 1911.

Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire
Bayard Taylor
ISBN: 1-890771-36-8. #HEYD2911 paper$18.95
A classic contemporary account of the Calfornia gold rush.

Essential Mary Austin
Edited with an introduction by Kevin Hearle
ISBN: 1-59714-043-0. #HEYD2897 paper$11.95
An introduction to the pioneering feminist author who first acquainted America with its desert lands in Land of Little Rain

Essential Muir
Edited by Fred White
ISBN: 1-59714-027-9. #HEYD2989 paper$ 11.95
An introduction to the great "poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist"

The Fine Art of California Indian Basketry
Edited by Brian Bibby
ISBN:0-930588-87-8. #HEYD2951 paper$22.50
California Indian baskets are considered by many to be among the world's most beautiful, sophisticated, and cherished art objects.

First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians
L. Frank and Kim Hogeland
ISBN: 978-1-59714-013-3. #HEYD2937 paper$23.95
Family photo albums provide an intimate look at Native American life

Flora of the Santa Ana River and Environs With References to World Botany
Oscar F. Clarke, Danielle Svehla, Greg Ballmer, and Arlee Montalvo
ISBN: 978-1-59714-050-8. #HEDY2926 paper$29.95
An introduction to the botanical richness of one of southern California’s major waterways.

Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages
Leanne Hinton
ISBN: 0-930588-62-2. #HEYD2947 paper$18.00
Thoroughly accessible essays on the structure, sounds, and history of California Indian languages, and the efforts to preserve them.

General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans
Alan Rosenus
ISBN: 1-890771-21-X. #HEYD2968 paper$18.95
The penetrating biography of one of the central—and most controversial—figures in California's early history.

Geological Ramblings in Yosemite
N. King Huber
The story behind Yosemite’s breathtaking landscape.
136 pages (7 x 9), with b&w photographs, line art diagrams, and maps
throughout.      ISBN: 978-1-59714-072-0. #HEYD1452 paper$16.95

The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place
Edited by Christopher Buckley and Gary Young
ISBN: 1-890771-19-8. #HEYD2980 paper$18.95
An anthology of contemporary poetry devoted to California's many landscapes—rural and urban, emotional and physical.

Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration
Edited by Michael Kowalewski
ISBN: 0-930588-99-1. #HEYD2979 paper$18.48
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the California gold rush comes this definitive anthology.

Grass Games and Moon Races: California Indian Games and Toys
Jeannine Gendar
ISBN: 0-930588-56-8. #HEYD2938 paper$14.95
Dozens of traditional games are described through personal accounts, anecdotes, photographs, and drawings.

Gunfight at Mussel Slough: Evolution of a Western Myth
Edited by Terry Beers
ISBN: 1-890771-82-1. #HEYD2896 paper$19.95
On May 11, 1880 at Henry Brewer’s homestead in the southern San Joaquin Valley district of Mussel Slough, seven men lost their lives during one of the deadliest shootouts in the history of the American West.

The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck, Introduction by Charles Wollenberg
ISBN:1-890771-61-0. #HEYD2964 paper$9.95
Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century's Best American Journalism

The Heart is Fire: The World of the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California
Deborah Dozier
ISBN: 0-930588-89-4. #HEYD2961 paper$16.00
Five Cahuilla elders open their world to us, providing an Indian interpretation of the Cahuilla world, past and present.

Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer
David Mas Masumoto, Illustrations by Doug Hansen
ISBN: 978-1-59714-064-5. #HEYD2884 cloth$21.95
Earthy wisdom from America’s favorite organic farmer.

The High Sierra of California
Poems and Journals of Gary Snyder, Woodcuts by Tom Killion
ISBN: 1-890771-99-6. #HEYD2982 paper$24.95
A tribute to the bold, jagged peaks that have inspired generations of naturalists, artists, and writers.

How To Keep Your Language Alive
Leanne Hinton, with Matt Vera and Nancy Steele
ISBN: 1-890771-42-2. #HEYD2942 paper$15.95.
A manual for students of all languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh.

Humphrey the Wayward Whale
Ernest Callenbach and Christine Leefeldt
ISBN: 0-930588-23-1. #HEYD2930 paper$4.95
This best-selling children's book tells the true tale and adventures of Humphrey, a humpback whale who wandered seventy miles into the San Francisco Bay in 1985.

In Full View: Three Ways of Seeing California Plants
Glenn Keator and Linda Yamane, Illustrations by Ann Lewis
ISBN: 0-930588-77-0. #HEYD2934 paper$14.95
A variety of California plants are looked at from the perspectives of a botanist, a Native American, and an artist.

In My Own Words: The Stories, Songs, and Memories of Grace McKibben, Wintu
Alice Shepherd, Foreword by Frank LaPena
ISBN: 0-930588-85-1. #HEYD2964 paper$14.00
Presenting the only bilingual collection of the songs, stories, and traditional tales of the Wintu of Northern California.

Indian Summer: Traditional Life Among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley
Thomas Jefferson Mayfield, Introduction by Malcolm Margolin
ISBN: 1-59714-035-x. #HEYD2894 paper$13.95
An eye-witness account of the nearly lost and unspeakably beautiful world of the Choinumne Yukots and the valley in which they lived.

Indian Tales
Jaime de Angulo
ISBN: 1-890771-66-x. #HEYD2901 paper$12.95
Appealing to both adults and children, Indian Tales, combines fact and fiction, literature and anthropology as it recounts the journey of Bear, his wife Antelope, and their son Fox as they set out to visit relatives on the coast.

It Will Live Forever: Traditional Yosemite Acorn Preparation
Beverly R. Ortiz, as told by Julia F.Parker
ISBN: 0-930588-45-2. #HEDY9707 paper$13.95
For over twenty years, visitors to Yosemite National Park have watched with fascination as Julia Parker demonstrates the Yosemite Miwok/Paiute skill of preparing acorn.

Jewish Life in the American West
Edited by Ava F. Kahn
ISBN: 1-890771-77-5. #HEYD2970 paper$22.50
In this multifaceted volume of art and essays, narrow stereotypes of westerners and immigrants give way before an exploration of Jewish community-building in the West. Here is a world that few people know—a world of Jewish cowboys, pioneers in covered wagons, gold miners, frontier politicians, and suffragettes.

Journey to Topaz
Yoshiko Uchida
ISBN: 1-890771-91-0. #HEYD2990 paper$9.95
Based on Yoshiko Uchida's personal experiences, this much loved classic is the story of one girl's struggle to remain brave during the Japanese internment of World War II.

Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846
Edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
ISBN: 1-890771-48-1. #HEYD2905 paper$21.95
This groundbreaking collection presents an ever-shifting world of struggle and opportunity, aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss.

The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
Written and Illustrated by John Muir Laws
ISBN: 978-1-59714-052-2. #HEYD2924 paper$24.95
368 pages (4.75 x 8.75), with 2,800 watercolor illustrations
The must-have guide to the Range of Light

Legends of the Yosemite Miwok
Compiled by Frank La Pena, Craig D. Bates, and Steven P. Medley
Illustrated by Harry Fonseca
ISBN: 978-1-59714-073-7. #HEYD1847 paper$12.95
A beautifully illustrated collection of old Indian tales about Yosemite.

Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History
Joaquin Miller, Introduction by Malcolm Margolin
ISBN: 0-930588-79-7.#HEYD2957 paper$18.95
Miller's masterful book, based on his years during the 1850s among the mining town and Indian camps of Northern California.

Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786
Jean François de la Pérouse, Introduction and commentary by Malcolm Margolin
ISBN: 0-930588-39-8. #HEYD2969 paper$10.95
La Pérouse's diary of the first foreign vessels to visit Spain's California colonies.

The Life of an Oak: An Intimate Portrait
Glenn Keator, Illustrations by Susan Bazell
ISBN: 0-930588-98-3. #HEYD2931 paper$21.95
A beautifully printed, full-color, intimate look at all aspects of the genus Quercus.

Life on the River: The Archaeology of an Ancient Native American Culture
William R. Hildebrandt and Michael J. Darcangelo
ISBN: 978-1-59714-086-7. #HEYD2888 paper$13.95
The story of an archaeological dig that uncovered a Wintu village

Lion Singer
Written and Illustrated by Sylvia Ross
A Great Valley Book
ISBN: 1-59714-009-0. #HEYD2989 cloth$12.95
There was once a time when there was no metal in the Chukchansi people’s world.

Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California
Photographs and text by Tim Palmer
Paperback, , $19.95
Breathtaking new photography and ideas explore the Range of Light.
ISBN: 978-1-59714-077-5. #HEYD2884 paper$19.95

Magpies and Mayflies: An Introduction to Plants and Animals of the Central Valley and Sierra Foothills
Derek Madden, Ken Charters, and Cathy Snyder
A Great Valley Book
ISBN: 1-59714-003-1. #HEYD2891 paper$16.95, $16.95
Follow biologist Derek Madden as he explores some of California’s most diverse ecosystems.

The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hanc'ibyjim
Edited and Translated by William Shipley, Foreword by Gary Snyder
ISBN: 0-930588-52-5. #HEYD2956 paper$12.95
A stunning combination of master storytelling and deft translation produced this world-class collection of Maidu myths.

Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America
Charles Melville Scammon
ISBN: 978-1-59714-061-4. #HEYD2907 paper$16.95
The classic volume on whales and pinnipeds

Mark Twain’s San Francisco
Edited with a new Introduction by Bernard Taper
ISBN 1-890771-69-4. #HEYD2900 paper$14.95
From earthquakes, police scandals, and tantalizing silver mine bonanzas to elegant ladies blowing their noses in "exquisitely modulated tones" and seals "writhing and squirming like exaggerated maggots" below the Cliff House, Mark Twain has left us a vision of San Francisco that is at once fascinating and hilariously familiar.

The Morning the Sun Went Down
Darryl Babe Wilson
ISBN: 0-930588-81-9. #HEYD2962 paper$13.95
The compelling autobiography of a California Indian man who grew up with one foot in the Indian world of myth and custom, and the other foot in a modern, Western world.

Native Ways: California Indian Stories and Memories
Malcolm Margolin and Yolanda Montijo
ISBN: 0-930588-73-8. #HEYD2966 paper$10.95
California Indians vividly describe various aspects of traditional and contemporary Indian life, in a clear, easy-to-read style.

No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California, 1848-1869
Edited by Ida Rae Egli
ISBN: 1-890771-01-5. #HEYD9705 paper$14.95
This important collection includes writings by Dame Shirley, Josephine Clifford McCrakin, Ina Coolbrith, Ada Claire, and others.

The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area--current printing.
Malcolm Margolin
ISBN: 0-930588-01-0. #HEYD2153 paper$14.95
This well-loved classic vividly recreates the lost world of the Indian people who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area such a short time ago.

The Ohlone Way: Indian life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area--prior printing, same ISBN. For this earlier printing, specify "Earlier Printing--60%" and take 60% off on orders of 10 or more. ISBN: 0-930588-01-0.#HEYD2922 paper$14.95

One Day on Beetle Rock
Sally Carrighar, Foreword by David Rains Wallace
Illustrations by Carl Dennis Buell
ISBN: 1-1-890771-53-8. #HEYD 6303 paper$14.95
An elegant and lively depiction of nine animals spending a spring day on Beetle Rock, a large expanse of granite in Sequoia National Park.

Only What We Could Carry:
The Japanese American Internment Experience
Edited with an Introduction by Lawson Fusao Inada
ISBN: 1-890771-30-9. #HEYD2913 paper$18.95.
Lyrical, haunting voices from inside the camps.

Our People, Our Land, Our Images:
International Indigenous Photography
Edited by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua
ISBN: 978-1-59714-057-7. #HEYD2936 paper$27.95
Over 100 years of indigenous art photography

Panamint Shoshone Basketry: An American Art Form--paper
Eva Slater
Cloth, ISBN: 1-890771-88-0, $40.00
ISBN: 1-890771-89-9. #HEYD2948 paper$25.00
This lovely book presents the cultural, environmental, and historical context in which a new and extraordinary form of basketry was created by the basket makers of a small tribe that inhabited some of the most inhospitable desert lands in Eastern California.

Panamint Shoshone Basketry: An American Art Form--cloth
Eva Slater
ISBN: 1-890771-88-0. #HEYD2950 cloth$40.00
This lovely book presents the cultural, environmental, and historical context in which a new and extraordinary form of basketry was created by the basket makers of a small tribe that inhabited some of the most inhospitable desert lands in Eastern California.

Past Tents: The Way We Camped
Susan Snyder
ISBN: 1-59714-039-2. #HEYD2916 paper$17.95
A gift book for camping enthusiasts and those who enjoy quirky old photography

Picturing California's Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley
Edited by Heath Schenker
ISBN: 1-890771-25-2. #HEYD2983 paper$35.00
A full-color look at the art and legacy of California's Great Central Valley.A unique and complete guide to more than 500 museums.

The Port Chicago Mutiny
Robert L. Allen
ISBN: 1-59714-028-7. #HEYD2970 paper$14.95
244 pages (6 x 9.25), with a map and 16 pages of b&w photos
A nearly forgotten chapter in black history—in a new edition

The Raccoon Next Door:
Getting Along with Urban Wildlife
Gary Bogue, illustrations by Chuck Todd
ISBN: 1-890771-71-6. #HEDY2927 paper$16.95
You believe your home is your haven, but think again, for there are eyes everywhere! What is that rustle in the bushes? Where did that silver streak come from? Why does your dog bark at nothing?

Remember Your Relations:
The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family & Friends
Suzanne Abel-Vidor, Dot Brovarney, and Susan Billy
ISBN: 0-930588-80-0. #HEYD2954 paper$20.00
The Pomo Indians of Northern California are widely considered to be among the world's most skilled weavers, and no finer collection of their baskets exists than that created by Elsie Allen and her mother, Annie Burke.

A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson
Edited by Michelle Burnham
ISBN: 978-1-59714-074-4.  #HEYD2884 paper$21.95
The complex legacy of a pioneer woman writer and advocate for Native American justice.

The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe, Introduction by Marlene Smith-Baranzini
ISBN: 1-890771-00-7. #HEYD2908 paper$13.95
This beloved classic of California historical literature offers a vivid portrait of the exuberance and brutality of gold rush life from a woman's perspective.

Sierra Birds: A Hiker’s Guide
By John Muir Laws
ISBN: 1-890771-78-3. #HEYD2925 paper$9.95
A unique book that assumes no prior birding knowledge on the part of the reader and is organized for easy and quick reference.

Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me!: The Seasons of Native California
Edited by Margaret Dubin and Kim Hogeland
ISBN: 978-1-59714-079-9. #HEYD2886 paper$16.95
California Indian writers and storytellers celebrate the seasons

Stickeen
John Muir.

 Illustrated edition of well-loved tale of how John Muir and the dog Stickeen struggled to cross an Alaskan glacier during an ice storm. An exhilarating story that has become an American classic. Illustrated, 96 pages.
 ISBN: 0-930588-48-7. #HEYD6114 paper$7.95

Storm
George R. Stewart, Foreword by Ernest Callenbach
ISBN: 1-890771-74-0. #HEYD2910 paper$13.95
Originally published in 1941, Storm masterfully weaves together a story of the violent storm "Maria" as it sweeps through California. Author George R. Stewart juxtaposes the forces of nature with the vulnerability of human beings, building tension through cinematic cutting from one setting to the next.

Straight with the Medicine: Narratives of Washoe Followers of the Tipi Way
Warren L. d’Azevedo
ISBN: 1-59714-029-5. #HEYD2945 paper$12.95
A Heyday classic, back in print with eleven new chapters

Sudden and Solitary: Mount Shasta and Its Artistic Legacy, 1841–2008
William C. Miesse with Robyn G. Peterson
ISBN: 978-1-59714-088-1. #HEYD2885 paper$35.00
Generations of artistic tributes to California’s mythic giant

Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848--paper
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
ISBN: 1-59714-033-3. #HEYD2921 paper$18.95
288 pages (6 x 9), with b&w photos throughout
Published in collaboration with Bancroft Library Press, University of California, Berkeley
Unheard voices from pre-gold rush California

Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848--cloth
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
ISBN: 1-59714-031-1. #HEYD2922 cloth$27.50
288 pages (6 x 9), with b&w photos throughout
Published in collaboration with Bancroft Library Press, University of California, Berkeley
Unheard voices from pre-gold rush California

There’s an Opossum in My Backyard
Gary Bogue, Illustrated by Chuck Todd
ISBN: 978-1-59714-059-1. #HEYD2984 cloth$15.95
A friendly opossum finds adventure in a family’s backyard

To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
Lucy Thompson (Che-na-wah Weitch-ah-wah)

Originally written in 1916, this book remains one of the few accounts of a Native American woman about her people.

 ISBN: 0-930588-47-9. #HEYD4175 paper$14.95

Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment
Edited by Kimi Kodani Hill
ISBN: 1-890771-26-0. #HEYD2981 paper$22.50
A great artist bears witness to the Japanese American internment, in this beautifully illustrated book accompanied by a text which draws heavily upon family letters and documents and interviews.

Treasures of the Conservatory of Flowers
Nina Sazevich, Photography by Kevin J. Frest
ISBN: 1-59714-031-7. #HEYD2929 paper$8.95
72 pp (7.5 x 5.5), with full-color photographs throughout
Discover the tropics in one of San Francisco’s most cherished landmark

Trees of Golden Gate Park and San Francisco
Elizabeth McClintock, edited and arranged by Richard G. Turner, Jr.
ISBN: 1-890771-28-7. #HEYD2933 paper$18.95
An essential guide for all who love the natural beauty of San Francisco

Two Bear Cubs: A Miwok Legend from California’s Yosemite Valley
Retold by Robert D. San Souci; Illustrated by Daniel San Souci
ISBN: 978-1-59714-092-8. #HEYD4983 ck\lothr$14.95
The tale of two lost bear cubs, Mother Grizzly, Red-tailed Hawk, Gray Fox, Mountain Lion, Clever Badger, Mother Deer, Measuring Worm, and El Capitan.

Unfolding Beauty: Celebrating California's Landscapes
Edited by Terry Beers
ISBN: 1-890771-34-1. #HEYD2909 paper$17.95
A lively collection of literature inspired by California's varied landscapes

Walking the Flatlands: The Rural Landscape of the Lower Sacramento Valley
Mike Madison
ISBN: 1-890771-84-8. #HEYD2892 paper$14.95
Mike Madison delivers a detailed critique of the farmland around him, the land he walks daily.

The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs, and Reminiscences
Edited with Commentary by Malcolm Margolin
ISBN: 0-930588-55-X. #HEYD2915 paper$14.95
Captures the vitality and continuance of native culture in California, ranging from love songs to death chants, legends to oral histories.

Wild Muir, The
Selected and introduced by Lee Stetson; Illustrated by Fiona King
ISBN: 978-1-59714-093-5. #HEYD452 paper$6586$10.95
First-person accounts of John Muir’s hairiest encounters in the wild

Woman of Ill Fame
Erika Mailman
ISBN: 978-1-59714-051-1. #HEYD2977 paper$13.95
264 pages (6 x 9)
Murder, sex, and intrigue in gold rush San Francisco

A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush
Edited with Introduction by Joshua Paddison
ISBN:1-890771-13-9. #HEYD2972 paper$18.95
Important early writings that chronicle the birth of modern California.

Yosemite Meditations
Photographs by Michael Frye; Foreword by Michael Tollefson
ISBN: 978-1-59714-094-2. #HEYD7856 cloth99.95
Yosemite Valley is a source of inspiration in this inspirational photo gift book.

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