Books - Local Authors

The Wildflowers of Bidwell Park points out some of the more interested and common wildflowers of the 3670 acres in the park. Some are rare, some ab...

Butte County mining camps and foothill farms were an active front in the California Indian wars. Using centuries-old tribal tactics, Butte Creeks, ...

This book celebrates the history of the town of Durham using archival photographs and crisp, accurate descriptions as it travels the times of 1860 ...

The City of Chico is a City of Trees, and the jewel in the crown of the city is Bidwell Park, full of attractive trees. This book aims to tell you ...

The Land of Orland in 1840 was adobe ranches and cattle. Later, the Sacramento River brought steamboats and trains that hauled agricultural bounty....

The Feather River has shaped this town from the Gold Rush to lumber, trains and electricity. This book is an ode to the people who lived and flouri...

After authoring and co-authoring over three dozen books, critically acclaimed writer-photographer Douglas Keister looks back at his childhood years...

Table Mountain, near Oroville, is one of the premier wildflower destinations in all of California. Every spring scores of people make the pilgrimag...

150 pages of photography and stories of the most destructive wildfire in California history as well as the inspirational process of rebuilding.

An Illustrated Introduction to the Fascinating Birds of Bidwell ParkWithout some effort on the part of the observer, all birds seem similar. This b...

Chico in the Images of America series by Arcadia Publishing is authored by Edward Booth, John Nopel, Keith Johnson, and Darcy Davis. This book offe...