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This book contains 85 stories of Lost Mines and Treasurers, in Central California (composed of the Counties of Alameda, Fresno, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Monterey, San Benito, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Tuolumne). Many of the stories concern treasurers buried by the Priests, the Spanish, Indians, bandits and Colonial settlers during the many incidents and wars that rocked the area in the 16th through the early 20th centuries. I found the data for this book while doing research on old mines for my series of books Mines of the American West. The â€œLost Mines and Treasurersâ€ were identified from articles in early American newspapers and other sources considered reliable. Where possible, for those lost treasures still to be found, I have tried to tie them to modern mines or areas and include some background data on such areas. In doing this, some of them seemed to â€œfall shortâ€ in the area of fact and logic, which I may point out. The reader should understand that this is a collection of data from old and new publications and not a focused specifically on the effort to find the specific properties, although some research, especially from a logic standpoint, has been done. If the reader can glean critical information from these original articles and the limited research that allows or helps him or her to locate a â€œlost mineâ€ or â€œlost treasureâ€, I wish him or her well and leave it to them to reap the rewards.The print version of this book has been produced in the 8Â½â€ X 11â€ format to keep the price low. If done in 6â€ X 9â€ or smaller, the book would be 2 or 3 times as many pages in length and would cost substantially more to increased â€œon demandâ€ print costs. These seem to be heavily influenced by the total number of pages. While this may be one of the seeming drawbacks to â€œon-demand printingâ€ - the benefit of â€œon-demand printingâ€ is that specialty books, such as this, are now practical to publish where the target market may be relatively small and minimal returns to the author are acceptable.Due to the number of stories I found for the State of California, the stories have been split into three books, Southern California, Central California and Northern California. This was done to keep the cost of the book under $10.00 and to keep the book small enough so that if it were produced in a smaller page size, such as the more common 6â€ X 9â€ or smaller, or as a â€œpocket bookâ€, the number of pages would still be manageable. It should also be noted that I may periodically update and revise the electronic version before creating a Fourth Edition. The guidelines for submissions for the electronic versions allow updates, without producing a full new edition, while the â€œprint on demandâ€ or hard copy paperback version does not and require that a full new edition to be developed to incorporate any changes. As such, the two books may not be exactly the same, as it is likely the electronic version will be updated more frequently than the paperback.