In this new retrospective, author Steve Lech has compiled more than 200 postcards to chronicle the city's history as, among other things, the birthplace of the navel orange industry. In addition, he has researched and written on many aspects of the history of both the city and county of Riverside, and is the author of Along the Old Roads--A History of the Portion of Southern California That Became Riverside County, 1772-1893.