1965 The Days of Old The Days of Gold Bill Talbitzer 1st Edition Signed CA TH8

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1965 The Days of Old The Days of Gold Bill Talbitzer 1st Edition Signed California TH8

PREFACE
This is a collection of stories about men and women who lived in California many years ago, when the State was young and offered a golden promise to the world.
The history of such people can be told in one of two ways.
It can consist of a chronological report of their lives and of the times and the places in which they lived.
Or it can select for the telling the out of the ordinary incidents that must occur in every lifetime. For no man can live out his allotted time without having spent at least one day or one hour in the sun.
Those about whom these stories are written were, for the most part, ordinary individuals, no different from the Californians of today except for the time in which they lived. History is most pleasant to read when it is enriched by the human failings and successes of those who lived it.