✓ Read ✓ Geology Underfoot in Southern California by Robert P. Sharp ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB

"Written in a lucid style that is easily understood by anyone with even a smattering of interest in geology, this book is illustrated by scores of helpful photographs and maps. It is a dandy companion for any glovebox." --Lee Dye, Westways --Lee Dye, WestwaysSharp first visited Death Valley and Owens Valley as a child around 1920, and he continues to lead geology field trips to the a

Ø Read ☆ Wagons to the Willamette: Captain Levi Scott and the Southern Route to Oregon, 1844 1847 by Levi Scott ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB

He details a harrowing trip. Scott joined the Jesse Applegate's 1846 expedition seeking a better, safer way through the Cascades to the Willamette Valley. Their new southern route wound through the Umpqua Valley, three mountain ranges, and the Black Rock Desert before meeting t