Excerpt from Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California HE time was late August some eleven years ago. The place that part of central California where, on one side, the plain unrolls in golden levels, and on ther swells upward toward the rounded undulations iof. The foothills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.