Includes: LAST TRAIN FROM LUFFENHOLTZ...Their town burned by a forest fire, and sixty desperate people waited for the last train that would carry them to safety or to certain death. [Eureka, Trinidad]; FATHER FLORIAN'S SECRET...Sawyers Bar was a rough and tumble mining camp in the 1850s until the little padre of Paradise Flat came with his secret bundle.[Sawyers Bar, Weaverville, Marysville...]; THE RUSSIAN AND THE LADY...In early San Francisco this star-crossed romance was to become California's first tragic love story. [San Francisco, Benicia, Fort Ross, Santa Clare]; BLACK BART, SHOTGUN POET...There is a legend about this California bandit who never hurt anybody and didn't make much money at his trade. [Columbia, Copperopolis, Guerneville, Oroville, San Francisco, Sonora, Stockton, Ukiah, Willits, Duncans Mills]; THE DREAM AND THE CURSE OF SAM BRANNAN...The Prince of Calistoga was hounded by a Mormon curse, and California's first millionaire died in poverty, misery, and solitude in Escondido. [Calistoga, Sacramento, San Francisco, Yuba City, Escondido, Napa Valley]; LOLA MONTEZ AND LOTTA CRABTREE...These two fabulous women were once well known in California; when their paths crossed, one was going up and the other was coming down.[ Grass Valley, Weaverville, Sonoma, San Francisco, Oroville, Quincy, Eureka, Rough & Ready]; WILLIAM B. IDE, THE HERO OF SONOMA...He was president of the Bear Flag Republic, the Commander-in-Chief of its little army, and the most versatile official of old Colusa County; yet he died in poverty, mysteriously and in secret. [ Sacramento, Sonoma, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Martinez, Red Bluff, Monroeville, Sierra Nevada]; ISHI -- THE MAN... An incredible story of survival, the story of an Indian who was the last of his people. [Redding, Roville, San Francisco, Butte County}; and 12 more fascinating stories.
Includes a chart of locations by story. Some stories involve several towns and some towns appear in more than one story.
APPENDIX includes suggestions for further exploration of these stories physically and intellecdtually, including several discussion questions for each tale.
