Title: Owning the Sierra Nevada
First published: 2003
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.
Subjects: Description and travel, Land tenure, Social life and customs, Homes and haunts, Friends and associates, Mountain life
Places: California, Placer County, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Placer County (Calif.)
People: Brent Harold
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: F868.P7 H37 2006