Title: A Sagebrush Heritage
First published: 1972
Description: A biography/history of the author's father, Benjamin Franklin Edwards, and the now-abandoned frontier towns he grew up in. The book makes extensive use of photographs, newspaper clippings, and personal correspondence to document these ghost towns as they were when Edwards lived in them, following him as he eventually settled in the East Bay and ran several small banks in Berkeley and Oakland.
Subjects: history, biography, California Gold Rush, ghost towns, Wild West
Places: Nevada, California, Candelaria (Nev.), Tonopah (Nev.), Aurora (Nev.), Benton (Calif.), Bishop (Calif.), Berkeley (Calif.), Oakland (Calif.), East Bay (Calif.)
People: Benjamin Franklin Edwards
Time periods: 1865-1959, The California Gold Rush
LC classification: HG2463.E38 M4