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A BAG OF BONES: Legends of the Wintu Indians of Northern California. Marcelle Masson.
15 stories told by old Wintu native Americans from group who lived along western Sacramento Valley of California. 10 illustrations, 140 pages. Covers damaged.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: 0-911010-26-2. Order #: NAGR0951 paper$12.95.

THE AGE OF GOLD: the California gold rush and the new American dream. by H. W. Brands.
Discovering the gold that led emigration to the area before it was a state and how that influenced the development of a population. There are stories of emigrant travel by overland routes and also by sea through Panama and Cape Horn and the perils that kept some from reaching the promised land they had intended. Development of San Francisco and the role of its early vigilance committee. discovery of Yosemite, roles of John Sutter, John Fremont, Samuel Clemens, Leland Stanford, the Mormons, Indians, and more. Photographs and drawings, maps, bibliography, 559 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-385-50216-8. 2002. Order #: RAHO2786 cloth$29.95.

ANIMAL FRIENDS OF THE SIERRA. by Fran Hubbard.
Stories about animals and national parks and forests and why we need them, for children. Species included are bear, lion, deer, woodrat, gopher, marmot, and more. Explains what are mammals, teeth as tools, facts about feet. Copiously illustrated by William D. Berry. 32 large-format pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: None. Order #: AWAN1029 paper$4.95.

THE BEST BIKE PATHS OF THE SOUTHWEST. by Wendy Williams.
Safe, scenic, and traffic-free bicycling in Arizona, Nevada, California, and Utah. Describes 56 bike paths organized by state, with maps showing locations, descriptions including mileages, general backgrounds and histories of the paths and useful tourist information; level of difficulty; type of scenery; condition of pavement; availability of food and bathroom; directions and parking. Illustrated, 222 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-684-81400-5. 1996. Order #: SISC8425 paper$11.00.

BIRDS OF LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK. by Robert C. Milne.
Text and color photos of common birds of this national park in California gives details of their preferred habitats--forest; meadows; shrubs and open slopes; streams and lakes; soaring birds. Presents nesting habits, foods, interactions with other birds and animals. Includes checklist for all 159 known species and gives status as accidental, migrant, resident (by summer and winter). Bibliography, 48 pages, index.
Inventory = 4. ISBN: None. Order #: LOOM0807 paper$4.50.

DESOLATION WILDERNESS and the South Lake Tahoe Basin, by Jeffrey P. Schaffer. Presents 32 trips in Desolation Wilderness, Emerald Bay, South Fork American River, and upper Truckee River. There is a table of mileages to lakes you can reach by trail and there are descriptions of terrain, lakes, and vegetation with photographs. Natural history is explained: geology of Lake Tahoe, common plants and animals. especially wildflowers and birds, are covered. Area campgrounds are included as well as minimal impact camping. 154 pages, photos, fold-out topographic map in pocket.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-89997-050-8. Order #: WILD6127 paper$18.95.

DISCOVERING SIERRA REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. Basey.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 978-0939666-03-0. Order #: YOCO1849 paper$5.95.

DISCOVERING SIERRA TREES. by Stephen P. Arno, illustrated by Jane Gyer.
Covers conifer and broad-leaved trees in area ranging from Sequoia National Forest in the south to the Toiyabe and Stanislaus National Forests in the north, and including Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite National Parks. Includes both conifers and broad-leaved trees--36 species. Describes age, size, characteristics, and reproduction. Reveals with an elevation profile how the trees are distributed according to altitude. Artist Geyer presents her scratchboard illustrations to portray foliage and cones plus portraits of full trees. 89 pages, paper cover.
Inventory = 6. ISBN: 978-0939666-04-9. Out of print. Order #: YOCO1850 paper$24.50. See below for framable prints of trees from this book.

DISCOVERING SIERRA TREES--prints. by artist Jane Gyer.
A portfolio of 8 reproductions of Jane Gyer's black-and-white illustrations from the book Discovering Sierra Trees. 9 x12 inches, proportioned to framing. Cover print is of giant sequoia. Published by Yosemite Natural History Association.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: None. No date. Order #: YOCO1339 prints$40.00.

ERUPTIONS OF LASSEN PEAK. by B. F. Loomis.
A pictorial history of the eruption of Lassen Volcano, now within Lassen Volcanic National Park, in northern California, which erupted in 1914. Author Loomis took a number of these scenes, some from the mountain itself. Recounts stories of witnesses and survivors and includes before and after views of many scenes. Historical photos show views of mushroom and other eruptive clouds taken from nearby cities, boulders and ashes expelled by blasts which continuted into 1915 and later. Following the eruptions, loose rock and debris came down the mountain/s steep slopes as mudslides. 96 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN None. 1971. Order #: LOOM0808 paper$6.95.

A FIELD GUIDE TO THE FLOWERS OF LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK. by Mary Ann Showers & David W. Showers.
Organizes flower identification by habitat groups--rocky, wet, meadow, forest, and alpine areas--and also by color. Descriptions for each species includes flowering seasons, characteristics of petals and leaves, park areas where could be seen, similar species, family name. Drawings, 112 pages, index.
Inventory = 4. ISBN: None. 1981. Order #: LOOM2167 paper$6.95.

THE FIELD GUIDE TO WILDLIFE HABITATS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. by Janine M. Benyus.
This field guide and the similar one for the eastern U.S. use a habitat-first approach to learn about the varying plant and landscapes you live in or travel through, and of the animals and plants that live in association within. This western guide presents 18 habitat types (for instance, oak woodland, lodgepole pine forest, plains grassland, rocky coast, aspen forest) and descriptions include geological and ecological histories as well as their characteristic plants and where and what to look for 40 species of bird, mammal, or amphibian or reptile. Drawings, charts, and maps 336 pages, index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-671-65909-X. 1989. Order #: SISC7787 paper$16.00.

FIRE IN SIERRA NEVADA FORESTS: a photographic interpretation of ecological change since 1849. George Gruell. The face of the Sierra has filled in-and that, Gruell says, is not a good thing; not for wildlife, not for the forest and not for the future of the range's ecosystems." - Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times.
Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests examines the woodlands through repeat photography: re-photographing sites depicted in historical photographs to compare past vegetation to present. 256 pages, 7.25 x 10.25.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-87842-446-6. Order #: MOPR9062 $20.00.

GOLD COUNTRY: the story behind the scenery (CA). Paher.
Presents the great gold rush of 1849 to California, with stories of miners and places and peeks at remaining buildings and machinery. 48 large-format pages, color illus. Out of print.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-88714-111-0 2005. Second printing. 1996. Order #: KCPU4618 paper$11.95.

GOLD COUNTRY: the story behind the scenery (CA). Paher.
Presents the great gold rush of 1849 to California, with stories of miners and places and peeks at remaining buildings and machinery. 48 large-format pages, color illus.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-88714-111-0. 1996. First printing. Order #: KCPU4750 paper$8.95.

THE HUMMINGBIRD OF THE CALIFORNIA WATERFALLS. by John Muir.
Reprinted from 1878. This has been called "the finest bird biography ever written". Muir's "waterfall hummingbird" is the water-ouzel, of course, now also called the dipper. Although Muir buffs and birders already know this, even they will enjoy reading or re-reading the story of this little bobber. Some might have seen this little bird, but without this article have not yet enjoyed the flyer/swimmer fully. As Muir's portrayal shows, much of the bird's intrigue is its physical elusiveness while remaining visually accessible. Enjoy this little story and enjoy this little bird. Foreword by former Chief Park Naturalist, Yosemite National Park. Period illustrations. 24 pages.
Inventory = in stock in quantity. ISBN-10: 0-89646-019-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-019-5. Order #: VIST0019 paper$3.95.

HUNTING DIAMONDS IN CALIFORNIA. by Mary Hill. Where to hunt for these gems, how to identify them, locate your claim, and cut them. Characteristics of diamonds, world occurrences, and sites in California where they have been found, many in the Mother Lode of the Sierra in the process of hydraulic mining where banks of ancient river gravels are washed away, leaving their heavier components. Others have been found in beach sands but hone where they originally formed. Illustrated, 80 pages, extensive bibliography.
Inventory = 4; otherwise out of print. ISBN: 0-911010-96-3. Order #: NAGR5717 paper$5.95.

INDIANS OF LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK AND VICINITY. by Paul E. Schulz.
Beliefs, hunting, basketry of northern California people. Includes the arrival of humans in North America, early cultures and the California Indians. Tells of their hunting, fishing, gathering and preparation of foods; their material goods including tools and weapons; clothing; ceremonies and dress for same; smoking; music and art; games and dances; political organization; war and peace; birth and babies; marriage and divorce; death and burial; concepts of counting, time, and place; concepts of sun, moon and stars; medicine and magic. Drawings, bibliography, 182 pages.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: None. 1954. Order #: LOOM806 paper$8.95.

ISHI'S JOURNEY: from the center to the edge of the world. by James Freeman.
Historical novel of story of sole survivor of now-extinct Yahi Indians of N. CA. This gripping work of historical fiction allows us to see another side of the famous Yahi Indian. Ishi, the last of the Yahis, stumbled out of the Northern California wilderness in 1911, long after his people were thought to have died off. He had been one of five Yahis who had survived a massacre at the hands of white settlers. He lived a hidden existence for thirty years within sight of a white homestead without being discovered. Ishi spent his remaining years with two anthropologists from the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, Alfred L. Kroeber and Thomas T. Waterman, where they recorded all that is known of his way of life. A tragic, sometimes mystical adventure (and romance), Ishi's Journey is a story of genocide and man's changing relationship with the environment. 224 pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 978-0-87961-231-3. Order #: NAGR7668 paper$10.95.

LAKE TAHOE: the story behind the scenery (CA/NV). by Stanley W. Paher.
Water sports in summer, world class ski areas in winter, high rise hotels, golf courses, casinos, and nightly entertainment surround this sky blue lake that is "millions of years deep". 9x12, 48 pages, 53 color photos & 1 map.
Inventory = 4. ISBN: 0-88714-088-2. 2008. Fifth printing. Order #: KCPU8113 paper$11.95.

LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK: a natural-history guide to Lassen National Park, Caribou Wilderness, Thousand Lakes Wilderness, Hat Creek Valley, and MacArthur-Burney Falls State Park. by Jeffrey P/ Schaffer.
Comprehensive trail guide plus road guide keyed to roadside interpretive markers, with natural history, camping and resort info. 216 pages, photos, maps with topo map in pocket.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-89997-059-1 Order #: WILD8412 paper$16.95.

LASSEN NATIONAL PARK AND VICINITY-- topographic map. Wilderness Press.
Wilderness permits, trails, roads, picnic areas, scenic turnouts, forested areas, lakes, streams, campgrounds. Scale=1:62,500; 18"x21" map with index of all places on map.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: None. Order #: WILD2903 map$5.00.

LASSEN TRAILS: a brief guide to the trails of Lassen Volcanic National Park. by Stephen H. Matteson.
Describes 34 trails in this national park in northern California, including to the summit of the volcano. Introduction gives overview of hiking in this region including concerns for passing through thermal regions of this volcano active in 1914. Table gives average dates when trails have opened in the spring and early summer once the abundant winter snow has melted adequately. Maps are included for each trail and starting points, trail distances and times are given plus terrain and scenic and other features. Trail maps and park overview map, 56 pages, index.
Inventory = 15. ISBN: None. 1982. Order #: LOOM0804 paper$4.95.

LASSEN (Guide#6). Reedy.
Outdoor guide to California's Lassen area. Photos, fold-out maps, large-format pages.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: None. 1980. Order #: BORE0232 paper$3.95.

LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK. by Stephen C. Voorhees.
A photographic appreciation, plus commentary. Detailed and distant views of cliffs, thermal mudpot, lakeshores, droplets, streambeds, hot spring deposits,shooting-star wildflowers ,the volcanic mountain, contorted tree trunks, and more. Black-and-white and color photos, 48 pages.
Inventory = 3. ISBN: None. 1981. Order #: LOOM0801 paper$8.95.

"THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP" AND OTHER SKETCHES, including "Outcasts of Poker Flat" and "Tennessee's Partner". by Bret Harte.
Bret Harte was a popular writer of the gold rush days of the California Mother Lode country in the 1850s. Tales of gamblers, miners, whores, and other characters come alive in short stories. The booklet is a facsimile of the original printing with its illustrations and some additions from similar sources. Inventory = 20. ISBN: 0-910584-77-X. Order #: FILT0476 paper$3.95.

#MODOC-TULE LAKE (Guide #8). Reedy.
Outdoor guide to California's northeast--fishing, hunting, boating, camping. Photos, fold-out maps, large-format pages.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: None. 1981. Order #: BORE0234 paper$3.95.

NORTWEST TRAILS. by Ira Spring & Harvey Manning.
Overview-guidebook to 73 park, wilderness areas in WY, MT, ID, NoCA, OR, WA, BC, Canadian Rockies. Answers myriad questions of visitors: best mountain scenery, open-country trail hiking, desert rambles, high-lakes fishing, rock-peak scrambles, best seasons, crowds, weather, sources. Maps, photographs, 192 pages,index.
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 0-89886-037-7. 1982. Order #: MOUN0893 paper$9.95.

PACIFIC COAST TREE FINDER: a pocket manual for identifying Pacific Coast trees. by Tom Watts.
The classic key to identifying native trees of the Pacific Coast, updated to reflect changes in the accepted names of trees, especially since publication of the University of California's Jepson Manual in 1993. Key identifies native trees, and some commonly introduced non-natives, by their leaves and needles. Covers the Pacific Coast region from Baja to British Columbia. (In the deserts of Southern California, use the Desert Tree Finder.) Includes range maps and information about habitat. 64 pages, drawings.
Inventory = 40. ISBN: 978-0-912550-27-5. Order #: NASG0979 paper$5.95.

PONDEROSA COUNTRY: a scenic and historic guide to Reno and vicinity (NV). Paher.
Trips to take to view historic sites and their stories around Reno, Tahoe, Pyramid Lake, Virginia City. Historical photos, 48 large-format pages.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: None. 1972. Order #: NEVA1003 cloth$14.95.

ROAD GUIDE TO LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK. by Paul E. Schulz.
Park history and nature keyed to roadside markers. Learn about the park's volcanic features including hot springs and steam vents, birds and mammals, wildflowers, lakes, trailheads, waterfalls, and park museums. Map, color photos, 40 pages.
Inventory = 7. ISBN: None. 1981. Order #: LOOM0810 paper$3.95.

SHASTA RECREATION GUIDE (Guide #9). Reedy.
Outdoor guide to parks, museums, whitewater, trails in No. California area. Photos, fold-out maps, large-format pages.
Inventory = 9. ISBN: None. 1980. Order #: BORE0235 paper$3.95.

SIERRA FLOWER FINDER: a guide to Sierra Nevada wildflowers. by Glenn Keator, PhD, illustrated by Valerie R. Winemiller.
Key to non-woody flowering plants of the Sierra Nevada mountain range above the foothills (above about 4,000 feet.) The Sierra encompasses many habitats, from the high desert of the dry eastern slope, to the chaparral, meadows, and forests of the western slopes, and the harsh environment of the rocky alpine zone, so a wide variety of plants occurs in the area covered by this book. Illustrated with clear line drawings. 128 pages.
Inventory = 61. ISBN: 0-912550-09-0 Out of Print; we have limited stock. Order #: NASG0978 paper$5.95.

(ST) Sierra Trout Guide, SB SIERRA TROUT GUIDE. by Ralph Cutter.
Sierra trout live in a wonderful environment which is portrayed in 100 beautiful color photos on thick glossy stock. Learn how to successfully fish the lakes and streams from an expert. Color fly plates and tying recipes for all the most productive fly patterns. Tackle and technique information that reveals the best ways to hook trout. Information on backpacking, fishing and hiking checklists, maps and permits, most productive waters. Distribution charts containing names and locations of over 550 rivers and 1,700 lakes and the trout species they contain. 112 inches, 8 x 11 color,
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 978-1-878175-02-1. Order #: FRAM2030 paper$19.95.

SIERRA NEVADAN WILDLIFE REGION. by Vinson Brown.
Most of the common plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish of California's mountainous area are described and illustrated. 144 pages.
Sierra Nevadan is a splendid field guide to the common wild animals and plants of the Sierra Nevadan wildlife region, which includes most of the mountainous area of California. Sierra Nevadan (now in a revised and expanded edition) identifies plants and animals by arranging them in their most typical habitats. When hiking in a streamside woodland, turn to that section of the book where most of the common plants and animals of that habitat are listed. Readers can do the same with Middle Mountain Forests, Sub-Alpine Forest, Middle Mountain Meadows, Alpine Fell Fields or Meadows, Rocky Areas and Cliffs, Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Chaparral and Sagebrush Areas, and Freshwater Areas. 126 of the region's common plants and 263 of its mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish are plainly described and carefully illustrated. Sierra Nevadan is a reliable, portable, 'user-friendly' guide that should be every hiker, camper, and wildlife watcher's constant out-of-doors companion." The Midwest Book Review, Sept. 1996)
Inventory = 1. ISBN: 978-0-87961-22-7 Order #: NAGR2025 paper$8.95.

SKI TOURING IN CALIFORNIA. by David Beck.
A complete book for cross-country skiing in California with a large tour section for beginning as well as advanced skiers. Shows where to ski and how to ski with an illustrated technique section. Also discusses touring with kids, snowcamping, and avoiding avalanches. 35 tours are detailed, with mileages, starting points, elevations gained, difficulty class, and best season. Topographic maps show tour routes, 222 pages, index, bibliography.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: 0-89997-034-6. 1980. Order #: WILD1773 paper$9.95.

SILVER LAKE: High Sierra Hiking Guide #17; the High Sierra between Carson Pass and Ebbetts Pass. by Joseph R. Grodin and Sharon Grodin.
Trail routes to area south of Lake Tahoe. Includes trails, trees, history, geology, campsites, wildflowers, animals, ecology. Photos and maps, 96 little pages with large fold-out topo map dated 1976. This is the third edition of April 1983, second printing of April 1986.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: 0-89997-027-3. Order #: WILD1743 paper$12.95.

SKI TOURS IN THE SIERRA NEVADA: Carson Pass, Bear Valley, and Pinecrest--volume 2. Libkind.
Comprehensive guidebook to ski touring opportunities in this area, with route descriptions. From easier outings to backcountry adventures, gives tour difficulties, lengths, elevation changes, route-finding plus directions to start and end points, topo maps showing routes. Map, 132 pages.
Inventory =1. ISBN: 0-931255-01-5. Order #: WILD4192 paper$15.95.

WILDLIFE AND PLANTS OF THE CASCADES. by Charles Yocom, & Vinson Brown.
Covers lava beds and high mountains of Northern California, Oregon, Washington, southwest British Columbia. Describes this region's natural habitats of forest types, water areas, rocky spots, meadows, sagebrush, and its mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and common fish and plants to help get familiar with and identify them and their ways. Over 400 illustrations (4 color plates), 296 pages, index.
Inventory = 8; otherwise out of print. ISBN: 0-911010-80-7. Order #: NAGR0962 paper$9.95.

THE WINTUN INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. by Peter Knutdtson.
Pre-Anglo cultural life of people of Redding to Mount Shasta, CA, area. This easy-to-read, interesting ethnographic study gives a picture of Wintun cultural life. Two of the most interesting sections of the book are the glossary and a section on Wintun use of plants. A 17 x 22" color map of their territory is included. Illustrated, with fold-out map. Maps, photos, drawings, 96 pages.
Inventory = 10. ISBN: 978-0-87961-062-3. Order #: NAGR0946 $10.95.

YOSEMITE, LASSEN VOLCANIC & REDWOOD NATIONAL PARKS and surrouhnding area. Rand McNally National Parks Recreation Director in associaiton with the National Park Foundation. by Jean Pierce Postelwaite.
Includes surrounding areas: San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity recreational areas, Lava Beds, Lake Tahoe. Rates points of interest, includes guided tours, seasons, gateways, scenic overlooks and drives, camping, terrain, activities. Explains plant and animal life, geology. Photogaphs and drawings, maps, 192 large-format pages, index.
Inventory = 2. ISBN: 0-528-84942-5. 1985. Order #: RAMC1347 paper$9.95.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. by Rand McNally.
Rand McNally National Parks Recreation Directory. Including San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Lake Tahoe, and Gold Country with scenic trails and auto tours. History and sightseeing opportunities are presented for localities. Verify data pre-trip. Detailed park and area maps, 192 pages.
Inventory = 5. ISBN:0-528-84944-1. 1985. Order #: RAMC2949 paper$4.95.

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