California: An Illustrated History (Great West)

Here, at last, is the great book of California, the first book whose scope matches that of the "most American of all the American states". The 544 pages of this remarkable volume vividly document more than four hundred years of the most varied and colorful history in the annals of the West, from the age of the conquistadores to the age of megalopolis, from the seekers of gold to the seekers of the twentieth-century Eden.