Angels Camp, CA…”Barking Up The Big Trees: The Historic Dogs Of A California County” (Calaveras History Publishing) brings together the greatest stories, and more than 350 vintage photographs, of dogs spanning more than 100 years in Calaveras County, one of California’s original counties.

Authored by historian Salvatore John Manna, the book spans the 1860s to the 1970s, from dogs of the Gold Rush to the famed Maggie Lee featured in Rolling Stone magazine, from Native Americans with their dogs to the canine companions of renowned cattle queen Mrs. Ethel Adams, from portraits of children with their dogs to those of hunting dogs and stock dogs and, of course, dogs at the Calaveras Big Trees groves of giant Sequoias.

“Barking Up The Big Trees,” the first book published anywhere to focus on the dogs of a single county, is an entertaining, beautifully illustrated celebration of man’s best friend. About Sal Manna Calaveras County resident Sal Manna, journalist, author and historian, has penned or co-penned the Northern Calaveras County, Angels Camp and Copperopolis and Olives In California’s Gold Country editions of Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series and the first seven releases from Calaveras History Publishing, the imprint of the nonprofit Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History, of which he is the founder and president

Brands of Calaveras County 1854-1880 and 1881-1913, Glorious Trees: Alfred Russel Wallace in California, Something From Nothing, Something From Nothing II, To The Land Of Promise: The Extraordinary California Gold Rush Journal of Lewis Meyer, and now Barking Up The Big Trees. Contributing Editor (History) of The Valley Springs/Calaveras County News, his work has also been published in Las Calaveras from the Calaveras County Historical Society, and California History, the California Historical Society’s quarterly journal. #calaverascounty #ruralliving #dogsinhistory #angelscampmuseumlecture