spine yellowed, scrape mark on front. edge tear and spots on back cover. cover edge chips and a few page edge chips.slight corner curl. no marks on text.

Coloma's yesterdays are gone. They can never return. But Coloma today stands as a living monument to those men and women who followed the phantom lure of gold across oceans and deserts and mountains, and who stayed to build something lasting. To build a state. For here - in Coloma - was truly California's golden beginning.