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    Not So Fast: Meandering Through Angels Camp, California
    Not So Fast: Meandering Through Angels Camp, California
    Not So Fast: Meandering Through Angels Camp, California
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    Not So Fast: Meandering Through Angels Camp, California

    By Sunny Lockwood

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    Meandering Through Angels Camp explores the mining and literary history of one of California's best preserved Gold Rush towns. (4,800 words)

    * The Not So Fast travel essays explore fascinating places for readers who enjoy slow and easy travels — who like photographing landscapes, wandering gentle trails, strolling through libraries or along ocean beaches, who like to check out historic buildings and towns.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSunny Lockwood
    Release dateAug 16, 2011
    ISBN9781466125902
    Not So Fast: Meandering Through Angels Camp, California
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    Sunny Lockwood

    Sunny Lockwood has loved reading and writing since she was a child. Among her favorite authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Loren Eiseley, C.S. Lewis, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Anna Quindlen and Alexander McCall Smith. Publications began buying her stories and poems when she was a high school junior. After college, she was a magazine editor, a weekly newspaper editor and, later, a daily newspaper reporter. Her stories and articles have won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the National Federation of Press Women. Her freelance stories have appeared in national and regional magazines. Shades of Love, stories from the heart, is her first fiction collection. Not So Fast travel essays explore interesting places in the American West from her very personal point of view. She lives with her husband on 22 wild and weedy acres in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Read her blog, “onword,” at http://bit.ly/EQbWb Check out her website: http://sunnylockwood.com Read more of her work at http://scribd.com/luddite Befriend her on facebook: http://bit.ly/sunnylockwood Follow her on twitter: http://twitter.com/sunnylockwood Email her at: sunnylockwoodwrites@gmail.com

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      Not So Fast - Sunny Lockwood

      Not So Fast

      Meandering Through Angels Camp, California

      Words and Images by Sunny Lockwood

      Copyright 2011 by Merikay McLeod

      All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      None of the text or the photographs in this Not So Fast essay may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

      This Not So Fast travel essay is for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share it with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Formatted for ebook by R.M. ArceJaeger

      About the Not So Fast Series

      Not So Fast explores fascinating places for readers who enjoy slow and easy travels — who like photographing landscapes, wandering gentle trails, strolling through libraries or along ocean beaches, who like to check out historic buildings and towns.

      Introduction

      If you want to enjoy a couple of hours in a town that time more or less forgot, you’d do well to visit Angels Camp, California. The only incorporated city in the Mother Lode County of Calaveras, Angels Camp has powerful connections to author and humorist Mark Twain, which it nourishes through its yearly Jumping Frog Jubilee and

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