On the Shelf – 2/12

A look at newly donated nonfiction titles now available at the Downieville Library.

Paul Guffin

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Some New Stuff on the Shelves of the Downieville Library #

Recently, the library has been blessed with several donations of books, both print and audio. To get us started, here are the non-fiction print books that have been added. (Note: “SBS” indicates that the book is in the Special Books Section, meaning the book can be perused at the library, but may not be checked out.)

  • The Pioneer Steamer California, 1848-1849, by Victor M. Berthold (SBS)

  • Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West, by H.W. Brands

  • Nevada Ghost Town Trails, by Mickey Browman (SBS)

  • Four Months Among the Gold-Finders in Alta California, by J. Tyrwhitt Brooks (SBS)

  • Story of the Wild West and Camp-fire Chats, by Buffalo Bill (SBS)

  • Women’s Voices from the Mother Lode, Susan G. Butrulle (SBS)

  • The Diary of a Forty-Niner, by Chauncey Canfield (SBS)

  • He Opened the West: Jedediah Strong Smith, by Don M. Chase (SBS)

  • Lost Mines of the Old West, by Howard D. Clark (SBS)

  • Love and Nuggets, by Roland D. Crandall (SBS)

  • West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express, by Jim DeFelice (SBS)

  • On the Trail to the California Gold Rush, by Alonzo Delano (SBS)

  • Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers, by Richard Dillon (SBS)

  • Overland to California with the Pioneer Line, by Mary McDougall Gordon (SBS)

  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber & David Wengrow

  • Norman Rockwell, Illustrator, by Arthur L. Guptill

  • San Francisco Water & Power: A History of the Municipal Water Department and Hetch Hetchy System, by Warren D. Hanson (SBS)

  • Down the Wild Rivers: A Guide to the Streams of California, by Thomas Harris

  • Gold and Silver Colossus: William Morris Stewart and his Southern Bride, by Ruth Hermann (SBS)

  • Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, by Rachel Ignotofsy (juvenile)

  • Twenty Years on the Pacific Slope, by W. Turrentine Jackson (SBS)

  • Gold Diggers Atlas, by Robert Neil Johnson (SBS)

  • Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water, by Amorina Kingdon

  • A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush, by Lawrence Knorr (SBS)

  • Industrial Minerals and Rocks (Nonmetallics other than Fuels), by Stanley J. Lefond (SBS)

  • Mountains and Molehills, by Frank Marryat (SBS)

  • Climate: A Very Short Introduction, by Mark Maslin

  • Gold, Guns & Gallantry, by Norman McLeod (SBS)

  • Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, by Dale Morgan (SBS)

  • California Times and Trails, by Joan & Gene Olson (SBS)

  • The California and Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman, Jr. (SBS)

  • Sagebrush Rebel, by William Perry Pendley

  • San Francisco in the Seventies: the City as Viewed by a Mexican Political Exile, by Guillermo Prieto (SBS)

  • Little Known Tales in California History, by Alton Pryor (SBS)

  • The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War, by Leonard L. Richards

  • Health and Longevity, by Joseph G. Richardson

  • The California Star, 1847-1848: San Francisco’s First Newspaper, by Norma Baldwin Ricketts (SBS)

  • Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures, by Katherine Rundell

  • Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West, by Anne Seagraves

  • Women of the Sierra, by Anne Seagraves

  • 1897 Sears Roebuck & Co. Catalogue, by Sears Roebuck & Co. (SBS)

  • Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, by Eliot Stein

  • Berkeley One and Only, by Jon Sullivan

  • Rosa May: The Search for a Mining Camp Legend, by George Williams, III (SBS)

  • Fugitive Slave in the Gold Rush, by James Williams (SBS)