Seven States of California

Philip Fradkin is the author of six highly acclaimed books on the American West, including the newly updated A River No More (California, 1996). A former environmental writer for the Los Angeles Times, he also served as Assistant Secretary of the California Resources Agency, as Western editor for Audubon magazine, and has taught nonfiction writing at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He shared in a Pulitzer prize awarded to the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the 1965 Watts racial conflict.

• Preface                      The Approach                   I: Deserts                     II: The Sierra                 III: Land of Fire            IV: Land of Water            V: The Great Valley          VI: The Fractured Province   VII: The Profligate Province Acknowledgments              Source Notes                 Index