Orange County: The Golden Promise

	ORANGE COUNTY: The Golden Promise
	History of the "most California county" comes alive, from its founding by Franciscan friars; the challenges of an arid land in the early years and of its bankruptcy and land use controversies in more recent times.
	"[The author] is...uniquely qualified to take us back to the origins of the county in her book and then walk us forward lovingly and honestly...putting human faces on the names and places... makes the most tangled historical events accessible to the casual reader." —Orange County News
	Pamela Hallan-Gibson 8½ x 11 - 440 pages - Over 500 b&w and color photos - Hardcover ISBN 1-892724-26-X $34.95