The Southern Sierras of California

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First Edition. 367pp. Octavo [21 cm] Green cloth with title gilt stamped on the front board and decorative gilt stamping and landscape vignette on the front board. Very good. Gentle sunning to backstrip with small scuff to front board. Name in ink on front free endsheet. "In 1923, when Charles Saunders covered the ground that he writes about in The Southern Sierras of California, there were few mountains road accessible to the automobile. With the exception of an auto trip on the Rim of the World Highway in the San Bernardinos and a road trip between and around Palomar Mountain and the Pala Asistencia, all of Saunders wanderings were on foot. Saunders narrative deals with specific sections of the Southern Sierra, combining first-person travel accounts with passages on the people both famous and obscure who helped create the history and folklore of the area." William Donohoo. Zamorano Select 98

Charles Francis Saunders (1859-1941) was a naturalist, photographer, and prolific author of books and articles about, California, and the Southwest. In the early 1900s he moved to Southern California and spent much time exploring and traveling the deserts and mountains throughout the area. He had a deep love and appreciation for Native American ethnobotany and the California missions.