Greg Velm - Wiley AP U.S. History

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About the Author

Greg Velm is the author of the best-selling book True Gold: History and Adventure in Northern California. Hes been in The New York Times, Time, Youth, and Via Magazine. Greg has lectured at Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, and the University of California, Davis, on social history. He lives with his family near the American River in California. When hes not living in the past, Greg rides mountain bikes through the Sierra foothills and tries to outsurvive other old dudes in the shortest triathlons he can find.

Authors Acknowledgments

Nobody ever writes a book by himself; I get by with a little help from my friends and fellow thinkers Bob Strickler, Mike Tucker, Patricia Rose, Albert Lowey-Ball, Bob Greeley, P. K. Agarwal, Rayne Dawson, Wayne Fiske, Terry Taylor, Mary Ann McDonnell, John Azzaro, Irick Collins, Bodhi Garrett, Jean Caspers, Stuart Bair, Craig Lovell, Dan Egerter, Rick Kraus, and Terry and Mo Burton. Thanks to the dedicated teachers who create beautiful history sites and to the thousands of anonymous contributors to the ever-expanding and improving world of Wikipedia. Thanks to Matt Wagner of Fresh Books and to my talented editors at Wiley: Tracy Barr and Lindsay Lefevere.