The Weimar Joint Sanatorium opened to receive indigent tuberculosis patients on November 17, 1919. Located five miles south of Colfax in Placer County, California, the Sanatorium operated for sixty years, accepting applicants from 15 California counties. While some recovered, many residents died and about a third of them were buried in the adjoining Weimar Cemetery, their graves marked only by a wooden stake with a brass number disc. In 2012 a massive research effort, known as the Weimar Project, began. The purpose was to match numbers with names for the people buried in the Weimar Cemetery...

The history of the Iowa Hill Divide in Placer County, California begins in 1850 with the Gold Rush, even before California became a state. The first school on the Divide opened in 1854, and others soon followed. This book documents the rich history of these schools and includes:
- Histories and maps of the six school districts on the Divide: Iowa Hill, Wisconsin Hill, Monona Flat, Red Point (Humbug), Damascus, and Prospect Hill
- History of each of the five school buildings in Iowa Hill, including the solar-powered school
- Complete lists of students, teachers, and enrollment for...

People and the settlements they live in make up the human history of a place. This book is about the towns of the Iowa Hill Divide in Placer County, California and the people who lived in them from the Gold Rush era to the present day. Based on extensive research, it includes:
- Detailed annotated history of the founding of Iowa Hill
- Detailed annotated history of the "old" Iowa Hill Store, originally built 1853 and lasting until 1968
- An examination of the validity of various legends about Iowa Hill, such as Iowa Hill was once considered for the State Capitol
- History of...

Gold and fire: for towns from the Gold Rush era, gold built them up and fire tore them down, only for them to finally be forsaken by the mines. This is the story of the Iowa Hill Divide, where only Iowa Hill remains of the many former towns from the Gold Rush. Based on extensive research, this book includes:
Detailed chronology of the Iowa Hill Divide from the Gold Rush
to the present day
Analysis of the impact of mining, and thoughts on why the mines
declined
Analysis of the Iowa Hill Divide economy during the Gold Rush
Description of the major fires that decimated...

This is a record of 13 months in a German POW camp during World War II, illustrating a phenomenal grace under pressure.
Stalag Luft I (short for Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager-Luft) was one of nine German POW camps for Allied airmen during World War II in addition to the Dulag Luft interrogation center. The camps were run by the Luftwaffe independently of the German Army. At the time of its liberation by Russian troops in May 1945, nearly 9,000 men were incarcerated at Stalag Luft I alone.
The International Red Cross gave blank diaries to POWs to use as they pleased. Many...