B&W Illustrations; Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of very light bumping and rubbing. Blue cloth covered boards have gilt lettering to spine of the book. Text pages are generally clean & bright - there are two pages which have minimal inked underlining (page 17 and another one quite far into the book). There is some faint shadowing where several pages had pencilled underlining which was carefully erased. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. "This book contains the biographies of some fifty men and women who lived in California during the first half of the 19th century. A few were born here; most were immigrants, who blazed trails across the West, fought their way across the Sierras, settled in a raw new land and forever changed it. They came , not for gold, but for a new life in a new place."

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