A Sagebrush Heritage

Description:

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.

subjects: history,  biography,  California Gold Rush,  ghost towns,  Wild West

People: Benjamin Franklin Edwards

Places: Nevada,  California,  Candelaria (Nev.),  Tonopah (Nev.),  Aurora (Nev.),  Benton (Calif.),  Bishop (Calif.),  Berkeley (Calif.),  Oakland (Calif.),  East Bay (Calif.)

Times: 1865-1959,  The California Gold Rush