California Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries, Second Edition, Paperback

Are the Santa Lucia Mountains really inhabited by shadowy Dark Watchers? Is the labyrinthine Winchester House still inhabited by the reclusive widow who masterminded its construction? And how did a sewing machine salesman make good on his promise to end a terrible drought in Southern California? From Mount Shasta's legendary Lemurians to battles with alien spacecraft, California Myths and Legends of makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the Golden State's most fascinating and compelling stories.

About author(s):Ray Jones is a historian, author, and publishing consultant living in Pebble Beach, California. He has written more than thirty books, including Niagara Falls: An Intimate Portrait and his award-winning Lighthouse Encyclopedia, both published by Globe Pequot Press. Joe Lubow, formerly Merrill College Librarian and Fellow at the University of California at Santa Cruz, has been an editor and author for more than thirty-five years.