Excerpt from History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sierras: An Historical Story of the State's Marvelous Growth From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Hen we study the progress made in northeastern California, especially during the past two decades of the nineteenth century and the Opening years of the twentieth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.