Early Beginnings of El Dorado Gold Discovery County by El Dorado County Chamber of Commerce - 1960

New York: American Heritage, Publishing Co., Jointly with National Historical Society, 1979. Assumed First Edition . Hard Back. Fine. 8 1/2" X 11. 352 Pages Indexed. Red cloth boards with gold lettering to the spine. Slip case is very good with pictorial cover. The date 1 Aug 84 is inked on the half title page. Findings of the new, scientific archaeology do not generally contradict the conclusions of the pioneers, although they may refine the dating. It is still true that the first civilizations, marked by cities, governments, armies, laws, religion, and writing, arose in the Mesopotamian Valley between three and four thousand B.C. and at the same time or almost as soon, though without cities, in Egypt. It is during that magic millennium that the comprehensible record of civilized man begins. The discovery of selected chapters of that record is the subject of this book.