Owning the Sierra Nevada
Subtitle: the short history of a long infatuation
By: Brent Harold.
Publisher: Kinnacum Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Wellfleet, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780965559829
Subjects: Harold, Brent -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Placer County.; Harold, Brent -- Friends and associates.; Mountain life -- California -- Placer County.; Land tenure -- California -- Placer County.; Land tenure -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.); Placer County (Calif.) -- Description and travel.; Placer County (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Description and travel.
Description: In 1968, ten idealistic, young San Francisco Bay Area academics and professionals buy 20 acres of gorgeous mountain land in the Sierra Nevada. The group never develops the land but for one of them, an easterner, this particular rectangle of western wilderness becomes the object of a life-long preoccuption.