About the Author

John F. Burns is former State Archivist of California and History-Social Science Consultant for the California Department of Education. His publications include Sacramento: Gold Rush Legacy, Metropolitan Destiny (1999), and the forthcoming Capital Dreams: The Transformation of Sacramento. Richard J. Orsi is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Hayward, and Editor Emeritus of California History, quarterly of the California Historical Society. He is coauthor of The Elusive Eden: A New History of California (2002).