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$3,750 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

HISTORY OF NEVADA COUNTY CALIFORNIA WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DESCRIPTIVE OF ITS SCENERY, RESIDENCES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, FINE BLOCKS, AND MANUFACTORIES. FROM ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY ARTISTS OF THE HIGHEST ... A magnificent illustrated history of Nevada County, California. The wonderful lithographs ably show how in just thirty years the area that had been a rough and tumble center of gold rush activity was transformed into a lovely group of communities in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The illustrations show private residences with neatly tended yards and gardens, courthouses and other public buildings, hotels, newspaper offices, mining companies, banks, foundries, factories, general stores, breweries, jewelers, druggists, lumber yards, liveries, mines, and much more. Two of the lithographs relate to the Donner Party disaster which occurred nearby, and other plates give historic representations of the area. One interesting plate shows Louis Siebert's Vineyard & Soda Works, while the double-page illustrations include views of the Providence Gold & Silver Mining Company; the Idaho Quartz Mine; St. Patrick's Church & Mt. Saint Mary's Convent in Grass Valley; and Bird's Eye Canyon. Most of the illustrations are of locations in the largest cities in the county - Nevada City and Grass Valley - though the smaller towns of Truckee, You Bet, Rough & Ready, North San Juan, Sweetland, Cherokee, and Lake City are also represented. The text includes a long and detailed history of the county, with infor

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