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North Shore Books, Published 1980. Hardcover, 144 pp.; 23 cm; Second Edition, 1980; illustrated with black-and-white photographs; double-page Tomales Bay map by Steve Olmsted printed across the front paste-down and front free endpaper.In Good+ condition, no dust jacket. Green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine; mild edge and shelf wear to covers with a bit of color loss at the top and bottom of spine. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned but otherwise unmarked, with occasional light spotting.A history of Tomales Bay and its surrounding communities along the San Andreas Fault in coastal Marin County, California. Local historian Jack Mason chronicles the bay from Miwok settlement and Spanish exploration through ranching, the costly North Shore narrow-gauge railroad, the 1906 earthquake (the fault runs the length of the bay; the point of greatest 1906 slippage was at its southern end), the fishing and oyster industries, and the late-twentieth-century conservation effort that preserved the bay from development. The seventh of Mason's Marin histories, following Ben's Auto Stage (1967), Point Reyes (The Solemn Land) (1970), Early Marin (1971), Last Stage for Bolinas (1973), Summer Town (1974), and The Making of Marin 1850-1975 (1975).Contents: Part I, The Bay (A Very, Very Great River; The Miwok, A Sorry Exodus; The Hunters and the Hunted; Cows and Scows; Railroad Fever; Switzerland on the Bay; The People from Iz; Hog Island; Earthquake Bay; The Fabulous Fishery); Part II (Tomales, A Vanished Time; Olema, Dear Valley; The Emporium Town; The Narrow Gauge Villages; In George Dillon's Footsteps; The Inverness Pocket; The Indomitable Conservationists); Appendices; Bibliography; Index.