Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1990). First edition - Uncommon first edition of this collection of thirteen essays about California's Central Valley, including the "The Lake That Would Not Die" about Tulare Lake - which came back yet again after the rains of 2022-23, and other essays on the Kern River, William Saroyan, the literary landscape of the valley - Joan Didion, William Everson, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Soto, and Richard Rodriguez were all raised in this agricultural heartland - and more. 173 pp. ISBN: 0-88496-3217.

San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1913. First edition - Publication No. 47 of the Sierra Club. Includes' Little Studies in the Yosemite Valley' by Francois E Matthes; 'The Soda Springs Property in the Tuolumne Meadows' by Joseph Le Conte; 'A Lightning Struck Tree in Kern Canon' by Willis Linn Jepson; 'National Parks--The Need of the Future' by James Bryce; Milestone Mountain and a New Kings-Kern Pass by William Colby and more. Illustrated with many photographs; advertisements including one for 'tramping boots' and others for railroads. 83 pp.