Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues

The Sierra Nevada has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Along with towering granite mountains, crystalline lakes, and spiky conifer forests, the Sierra is also home to tales so outlandish and outrageous that they have to be real. Could the human imagination have invented someone like Eliza Gilbert? Born in Limerick. Ireland, she transformed herself into Lola Montez, the Sevillian aristocrat who brought the provocati...