Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology of works on California's Central Valley by more than seventy writers, from William Saroyan to Luis Valdez, from John Muir to Jediadiah Smith, from Mary Austin to Gerald Haslam, Lillian Vallee John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Gary Snyder, Sherley Anne Williams, Gary Soto, Joan Didion and many others. SIGNED by FOUR contributors: Maxine Hong Kingston at an excerpt from "The American Father," David Mas Masumoto at "Firedance,' Richard Dokey at his story "Birthright" and David St John at his poem "The Olive Grove." Double page map. Notes on contributors, index, and bibliography of their publications. xvii, 428 pp. ISBN: 0-930588-82-7.