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| | The Maritime Heritage Project: Gold Rush Books, 19th Century Reading, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mark Twain |
 | | His beat was all of Northern California, and herein he writes of mining life in Coloma, Angels Camp, Murphys, Columbia, Truckeer, and of life in Shasta County. |
| | He, too, is captivated by Mt. Shasta, and writes: "No matter how they approached the California North, there came a day, a certain moment on the trail, when they saw it, a white, far-off enchantment against the distant blue sky. |
| | What it represented, when at last it loomed low on their horizon, was determined by who they were, and where they came from, and where they were going, and why they were going there." |
| www.maritimeheritage.org /books.htm (3631 words) |
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