Up and Down California

By William H. Brewer

New, Paperback, 4th printing, with maps, 583pages

$26.95 plus tax and shipping ($33.06)

This is a collection of letters that Brewer wrote to his brother back east describing his four years as a member of a geological survey team in California. This was first published in 1930 & was an instant classic of Californiana & published again in 1949 & 1966. This fourth printing (2003) adds much welcome maps. Even though this is not a small book (583 pages), you will have a hard time putting it down.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

CONTENTS

BOOK I:   1860-1861

  I.   To California via Panama

 II.   Los Angeles and Environs

III.   More of Southern California

 IV.  Starting Northward

  V.   Santa Barbara

 VI.  The Coast Road

VII.  Salinas Valley and Monterey

BOOK II:   1861

  I.  An Interlude

 II.  New Idria

III.  New Almaden

 IV.  Approaching the Bay

  V.  The Mount Diablo Range

 VI. Napa Valley and the Geysers

BOOK III:   1862

  I.  The Rainy Season

 II.  Tamalpais and Diablo

III.  The Diablo Range South

 IV.  Up the Sacramento River

  V.  Mount Shasta

 VI.  West and East of the Sacramento

VII. Closing the Year—A Miscellany

BOOK IV:   1863

   I.  In and About San Francisco

  II.  Tejon—Tehachapi—Walker's Pass

 III.  The Big Trees—Yosemite—-Tuolumne Meadows

  IV.  Mono Lake—Aurora-—Sonora Pass

   V.  To Carson Pass and Lake Tahoe

  VI. The Northern Mines and Lassen's Peak

 VII. Siskiyou

VIII. Crescent City and San Francisco

BOOK V:   1864

   I.  San Joaquin Valley—Giant Sequoias

  II.  The High Sierra of Kings River

 III.  Owens Valley and the San Joaquin Sierra

  IV.  The Washoe Mines

   V.  Homeward Bound—Nicaragua

 

 

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