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
1. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge: Spanning the Gap
2. San Francisco's Cable Cars: Ride the Cars, Visit the Museum
3. Historic Chinatown San Francisco: The Cantonese Enclave
4. San Francisco's Victorian Architecture: The Legacy that Survived the 1906 Quake and Fire
5. Alcatraz and Angel Islands in San Francisco Bay: The Secure Prison and the Island of Immigrant Hope
6. Berkeley: Free Spirits and Free Speech at the University of California
7. Silicon Valley's High-Tech Heritage: Three Great Museums Tell the Computer/Technology Story of Modern California
8. Visiting Leland Stanford's "Farm" Now Stanford University in California
9. San Mateo's California Coast-side: Shipwrecks and the Portuguese
Coast North of San Francisco
10. Sir Francis Drake's California Landing: Where in Point Reyes?
11. The Russian Outpost in California: Fort Ross on the Mendocino Coast
12. Art and the Gray Whale: The Town of Mendocino, California
Napa and Sonoma
13. The Visionary of California's Calistoga: Sam Brannan's Hot Springs
14. "The Wine Is Bottled Poetry" Writer Robert Louis Stevenson in California's Napa Valley
15. Mariano Vallejo's California Hospitality: The Sonoma Town Square
16. The California Socialist as Literary Entrepreneur: Jack London's Valley of the Moon
17. The Father of California Agriculture: Luther Burbank's Legacy in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County
Redwood Country
18. Redwood Grandeur Along California's Highway 101: Avenue of the Giants and the Company Town of Scotia
19. Eureka: California's Redwood Lumber Baron Town
20. Redwood National and State Parks: Saving the Tallest Trees in Far Northern California
Shasta-Cascade Region
21. Apocalypse in California: When Lassen Peak Erupted in 1914
22. Shasta City and Shasta Dam in California: The Northern Gold Rush and the Enduring Wealth of Water
That's a sample of 22 of the 35 chapters!
