Copyright © 2018 by Gary Krist

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ISBN 9780451496386

Ebook ISBN 9780451496409

Cover design by Elena Giavaldi

Cover photographs: (left) From the Fletcher photograph collection, courtesy of the California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California; (right) USC Libraries. California Historical Society Colletion, 1860–1960

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