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2nd printing, a trade paperback (index added.) INSCRIBED on the title page by the author and dated in 1994. Local history of the California town originally incorporated in 1869 as Mokelumne, illustrated with many photographs. Among the interesting pieces of information is this comment about the fact that in 1878 the town had two newspapers, both run by woman - who were sisters - and one of these women, Laura deForce Gordon, was a noted suffragette, the second woman admitted to the bar in California, and the second woman (after Susan B. Anthony) admitted to the bar of the US. Index. 128 pp. Laid in is the original handwritten receipt by the author. Near fine in a illustrated wrappers. .

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