Roar of the Monitors; Quest for Gold in the Northern Sierra

Roar of the Monitors; Quest for Gold in the Northern Sierra by Jann E. Garvis. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781882824250.

Large hardcover, 740 pages, Illustrated, index, bibliography, glossary. Massive reference in a beautifully designed book that any New York publisher would be proud to call their own. Surely the ultimate reference on Gold Rush days in the Sierra-Plumas region. From more than three decades of preserved and collected artifacts, historical information, and family memorabilia, Jann Garvis has created a vast and colorful panorama depicting the way of life in the nineteenth century American mining West in general and in Californias Northern Sierra towns and villages in particular. The day-to-day, often bittersweet lives of the Northern Sierra miners and their families are revealed by Garvis, herself a descendant of some of the very people who are pictured and remembered in this book.