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.
Details
Subjects
history · biography · California Gold Rush
Pages
283
First published
1972
Edition
Harlan-Young Press · Clothbound hardcover with paper jacket · 1972