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Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such... More

Stegner's Angle of Repose and The Spectator Bird were just two of his masterpieces. His others include passionate pleas for the preservation of wildness and the retreat of concrete as he watched Silicon Valley stretch from horizon to horizon. Distinguished journalist Fradkin closely follows Stegne... More

A gripping history of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, now with a new preface discussing how the 1906 earthquake compares to Hurricane Katrina.... More

Twenty-five years ago Philip L. Fradkin read a book about a remote bay on the Gulf of Alaska coast. The noted environmental historian was attracted by the threads of violence woven through the natural and human histories of Lituya Bay. Could these histories be related, and if so, how? The attempt... More

Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. Fradkin. The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold R... More

Philip L. Fradkin, one of California's most acclaimed environmental historians, felt drawn to the coast as soon as he arrived in California in 1960. His first book, California: The Golden Coast, captured the wonder of the shoreline's natural beauty along with the controversies it engendered. In The ... More