Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire (California Legacy)
''With his keen eye and penchant for details, Taylor bestowed upon these tumultuous and anarchistic times an almost cinematic quality. Writing as he traveled, he managed to combine a sense of the poetic with straightforward historical documentation, underpinned with a wry sense of humor.... Widely regarded as a classic of western literature, Taylor's lively chronicle of the birth of modern California has lost nothing in terms of its initial freshness and vitality in the interim.''--Rain Taxi Review of Books''Of all books written about the Gold Rush and the Forty-Niners,Eldoradois one of the most compelling narratives....A California version of the Federalist Papers.'' --The San Francisco Chronicle