Roseville, CA: Stagecoach Publishing, (2002). SIGNED first edition - 41 stories of California's past ranging from 'The Ship of Gold' where treasure hunters found this ship and recovered $1.6 million dollars worth of gold including 5200 newly minted Double Eagle coins; a story of California's first schoolteacher at the Santa Clara Mission; Mother Mary Baptist Russell and the Sisters of Mercy in San Francisco, wehre they worked feverishly to tend the victims of smallpox and cholera; the Miller and Lux cattle barons who could drive their cattle herds from the Mexican border to the Oregon border and never leave their own land and much more - including stories about Lillie Coit, the Yosemite Valley, the Modoc War, the wine industry, and the Winchester House. INSCRIBED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 199 pp. Cover is a photograph from the Keystone Mine in Amador County. ISBN: 0-966005376.