
website of Katie Willmarth Green	writer/historian/genealogist

Some (Flattering) Reviews

"This book brings to life the peoples and places of the Yuba River country. Depicting communities, places, sites and structures and following the region's waters, trails and roads, it introduces us to the place's ethnic groups, families, and individuals. We learn in telling democratic detail about their migrations, aspirations, dreams, adventures, mishaps, foibles, follies, and basic humanity. Generous photographs, maps, sidebars, and just plain good witty writing make this fine local history. Indeed, by breadth of insight, passion for subject, revealing anecdote, and use of gentle humor and kind disposition, author Katie Willmarth Green proves that when it comes to understanding a people and a place, local history need not concede an inch of ground to the explanations and generalizations of professional history."
—Joseph A. Amato, Dean and Professor of Rural and Regional History at SW Minnesota State U, principal founder of the Society for Local and Regional History, author of Rethinking Home: A Case For Writing Local History Beatty Image

"This is a rewarding book, filled with otherwise obscure information,based on the breadth and depth of [the author's] knowledge and research! Indeed [she] has produced a record of that region which is invaluable."
—J.S. Holliday, former President of the CA State Historical Society, author of The World Rushed In, Rush For Riches

"The author has panned more nuggets (albeit of local history and lore) from the Yuba River country of the Sierra Nevada than all of the prospectors and miners, both Anglo and Chinese, of the Gold Rush days."
—Richard H. Dillon, formerly Director of the Sutro Library in San Francisco, lecturer and author of many popular and scholarly histories about the West

"Katie serves up well researched history with a side dish of regional pride and a dollup of love. Thank you, Katie, for an important contribution to Sierra County and a good model for regional history."
—Hank Meals, archeologist, photographer and renowned author of Yuba Trails and many other regional writings

"This book is ...a treat not to be missed. Katie W. Green has written much more than just about cultural resource management and protection...It is a socio-political, ethnic, religious, environmental, gender, genealogical, transportation and recreational history all wrapped up into one...She also included meaningful observations about timely women's issues such as prostitution, dress codes, suffrage and loneliness."
—Knox Mellon, Founding Director of the CA Office of Historic Preservation, and a consultant in the area of California cultural resources

"...a personal and insightful blend of historical facts and anecdotal stories of the Gold Rush, an ethnic and political history of early California."
—Sierra Heritage magazine