From the Depth of the Mines Came the Law: A History of the Bench and Bar of Calaveras County [signed] [first edition]

An accurate and entertaining history of the Calaveras County (CA) Bar Association, its lawyers, judges, and cases This book creates a record which recaptures and preserves an era of jurisprudence that had its origins in the California Gold Rush. Chronicled here are some of the county's major dynasties and destinies, endowed by a culture of high-caste and outcast: freebooters and stray-shooters; claim jumpers and Bible thumpers; rogues, rascals, and roustabouts; spellbinders, stem-winders, and minders of the public weal...sometimes rising to nobility and heroism; other times descending to farce, folly, and low melodrama. Displayed herein are the many aspects of the human character.