The Pacific coast is the most iconic region of California and one of the most fascinating and rapidly changing places in the world. Densely populated, urbanized, and industrialized?and also home to co
Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California. He discovered that there is more than one California, but every different California is equally w
We like to think of women as nurturers, not murderers, but women do kill. California’s Deadliest Women is the definitive guide to the murderesses of the Golden State, a horrifying compendium of women
"Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847 to 1861" describes in graphic detail the major figures, causes and means by which the 75 "affairs of honor" were fought in the Gol
The Spanish missions of California have long been misrepresented as places of benign and peaceful coexistence between Franciscan friars and California Indians. In fact, the mission friars enslaved the
The best loved and most spectacular drive in California is documented in a beautifully illustrated artistic and literary journey. Completing the trilogy started in An Artist and a Writer Travel Highwa
This account of the struggle to bring law and order to a city rich with gold rush money, at odds with Mexican bandits, and teeming with forty-niners and confederate sympathizers chronicles the chaotic
Before it was a modern freeway, California’s State Highway 99 was “the main street of California,” a simple two-lane road that passed through the downtowns of every city between the Mexican border and
San Francisco’s famous citywide scenic driving route has been reinvented for a new generation as a green, healthywalking adventure. This turn-by-turn guide takes visitors and natives alike on 17 diffe
