{ "item_title" : "Deeper Than Gold", "item_author" : [" Brian Bibby", "Dugan Aguilar "], "item_description" : "Largely hidden from the tourists who travel through California's famed Gold Country is a parallel world of great beauty and wondrous depth -- one filled with the culture and history of Native Americans. While many travelers speed past a meadow, scarcely glancing at two large rocks that lay side by side, Indian people still slow down to look at Earth Maker and Coyote, resting after their labors of creating the world. In the shops and streets of Sonora, Oakhurst, and Grass Valley, one hears mostly English; yet in ceremonial roundhouses just off this beaten track, one can sometimes hear elders converse in Mewuk or another native language of the Sierra Foothills. Away from the hotel restaurants and fast-food joints of these Gold Country towns, a woman prepares a ceremonial meal in her backyard by placing red-hot stones into a basket of acorn soup. Part guide, part literary tribute, this beautifully designed book features the memories and knowledge of the people who know and love the Gold Country best. With family photographs from private albums and a generous selection of original contemporary photographs, Deeper Than Gold presents an intimate view of a remarkable and persistent people whose long tenure in Gold Country has left a subtle yet definitive impression and who still live quietly in the area around Highway 49.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/93/058/896/0930588967_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "18.95", "online_price" : "18.95", "our_price" : "18.95", "club_price" : "18.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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