Newcastle, CA: Goldridge Press, (1987). SIGNED first edition - Here are stories of those who came to California in search of gold - or just a better life. Among them were the Dorer family of Humbug Canyon, Madame Dumont of Nevada City, Snowshoe Thompson, the 'Gentleman Bandit' Milton Sharp, the Chinese laborers, the drivers of the Wells Fargo statecoaches and many others. Illustrated with vintage photographs. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page. Bibliography. viii, 164 pp. ISBN: 0-961867809.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures." Map. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-618224165.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. First edition - Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures." Map. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-618224165.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. SIGNED first edition - Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2004 - that is, before publication. Map. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-618224165.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. dj. Hardcover first edition - Smith worked as a California State Park Ranger in the Auburn Recreation area - land owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, and supposedly the site of a dam that was never built - his "account of fourteen years as a park ranger thoroughly dispels our idealized visions of life in the great outdoors. Instead of scout troops and placid birdwatchers, Smith's beat -- a stretch of land that has been officially condemned to be flooded -- brings him into contact with drug users tweaked out to the point of violence, obsessed miners, and other dangerous creatures." Map. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-618224165.