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The Mendocino Papers (Paperback)
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The Mendocino Papers (Paperback)
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Loot Price R453
Discovery Miles 4 530
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The idea of this book, the first in a series, is to give readers a
sense of what vast Mendocino County is like, really like, from its
beginnings to now. The contents derive from my readings of the
scant formal histories of the county, and from my readings of the
slightly more abundant memoirs of early settlers. My experiences
are mixed in, and some of the book is autobiographical because you
may want to know something about the person telling you these
things. My family's history is intertwined in mostly oblique ways
with the county, whose written history commenced with its merciless
first settlers, the long, lethal sons of Missouri who rode west
from the gold fields to occupy what must have seemed to them an
endless, empty Eden of well-watered little valleys. But there had
been people in this Eden for 12,000 years. Those people were
annhilated before they could teach us what only they knew. The
bouncing ball of the narrative you'll find here moves back and
forth across time conveying, I hope, my sense of an accelerating
history of often absurd, often bloody events visited upon a
uniquely beautiful part of the country.
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