Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area.
Recently included in the San Francisco Chronicle \'s Top 100 Western Non-Fiction list, The Ohlone Way has been described by critic Pat Holt as a mini-classic..
One of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indian people who inhabited Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans.
This land of inexpressible fertility, as one early explorer described it, supported one of the densest Indian populations in all of North America.
From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds with a sound like that of a hurricane.
Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout.
Two hundred years ago, herds of elk and antelope dotted the hills of the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area
