Gold Miner's Daughter: A Memoir of Boom, Bust and Bliss in the High Sierra - Paperback

Thomas, Mabel W.: - Mabel Thomas was born in Grass Valley, California in 1878 and lived at the Sierra Buttes Mine for two years and in Sierra City, California until 1896 when she moved to Oakland. She graduated from San Jose Teachers College in 1897 and the University of California at Berkeley in 1901. She had a long career in the Oakland Public Library, retiring in 1948 as chief reference librarianThomas, Laura Romanin: - Laura Thomas was born in 1952 in Nurnberg, Germany, grew up in Oakland, California and graduated in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley in Journalism. She spent 35 years working on northern California daily newspapers, the Davis Enterprise, Sacramento Bee, Napa Register, Vallejo Times-Herald, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle as well as the national magazine, U.S. News and World Report.