Lee Foster invites you to explore the history of the San Francisco Bay Area and then roam all of Northern California. He has wandered the territory, from the Oregon border south through Sequoia National Park and the Big Sur Coast. California history, both human culture and man's interaction with nature, is his favorite subject. He delights in the concept of man saving and preserving nature, a notion to which California made major contributions, starting with John Muir. In 35 suggested trips, Lee guides you to explore for yourself. What might you ask and discover as the answers in your trips?
What will you discover?
The Table of Contents, with its 35 alluring options, is your best enticement to consider the book.San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge: Spanning the Gap
San Francisco's Cable Cars: Ride the Cars, Visit the Museum
Historic Chinatown San Francisco: The Cantonese Enclave
San Francisco's Victorian Architecture: The Legacy that Survived the 1906 Quake and Fire
Alcatraz and Angel Islands in San Francisco Bay: The Secure Prison and the Island of Immigrant Hope
Berkeley: Free Spirits and Free Speech at the University of California
Silicon Valley's High-Tech Heritage: Three Great Museums Tell the Computer/Technology Story of Modern California
Visiting Leland Stanford's "Farm": Now Stanford University in California
San Mateo's California Coast-side: Shipwrecks and the Portuguese Coast North of San Francisco
Sir Francis Drake's California Landing: Where in Point Reyes?
The Russian Outpost in California: Fort Ross on the Mendocino Coast
Art and the Gray Whale: The Town of Mendocino,
California Napa and Sonoma
The Visionary of California's Calistoga: Sam Brannan's Hot Springs
"The Wine Is Bottled Poetry": Writer Robert Louis Stevenson in California's Napa Valley
Mariano Vallejo's California Hospitality: The Sonoma Town Square
The California Socialist as Literary Entrepreneur: Jack London's Valley of the Moon
The Father of California Agriculture: Luther Burbank's Legacy in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County
Redwood Country
Redwood Grandeur Along California's Highway 101: Avenue of the Giants and the Company Town of Scotia
Eureka: California's Redwood Lumber Baron Town
Redwood National and State Parks: Saving the Tallest Trees in Far Northern
California Shasta-Cascade Region
Apocalypse in California: When Lassen Peak Erupted in 1914
Shasta City and Shasta Dam in California: The Northern Gold Rush and the Enduring Wealth of Water
Sacramento and the Gold Country
Dreams of an Agricultural Empire in California: John Sutter's Vision in Sacramento
The Iron Road Across the California Sierra: Old Sacramento and the Railroad Museum
One Lucky Day at the Sawmill: How James Marshall Discovered Gold in California Along the American River at Coloma
Rambling California's Historic Gold Country Highway 49: Starting with Columbia, the Preserved Gold Rush Town
Meandering the California Delta: The Chinese Town of LockeThe Sierra
The Discovery and Saving of California's Yosemite: A Militiaman's Emotions
Yosemite's Wawona: A Historic Hotel and the Big Trees of California
East Side of the California Sierra: Natural Beauty and the Struggle for Water
The California Bristlecone Pines: Oldest Living Things on Earth
A Tale of California's Mammoth Trees: The Giant Inland Sequoias of Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
Monterey and Santa Cruz
Father Junipero Serra's California Missions: His Headquarters in Carmel
Monterey: California's First Capital
California's Santa Cruz: The Beach Boardwalk and The Progressive University