height of california's gold rush in the 1850's, this town of shasta had seven hotels saloons, bars, , bookshops, wholesale businesses, retail businesses. you can see the shell of the buss

loved dickens, loved austen, but i own a bookshop now, and i have for going on six years, and those daysfor me. now ijust read not only things that are just out, the things i read are the things that will be coming out in six months. this is a confession. henryjames, once you get stuck into henryjames, he is impossible to abandon, isn't he? no, i will never abandon henry james. i will always go back every few years and reread the awkward age. that is the thing. it is not that i want to read more james. i want to just keep rereading the ones that i love. it is interesting to look at that in respect of your own narrative, because as i said, your narrative has the feeling of it has a pulse thatjust seems to keep going. you are a great one for concealing the inevitable artifice of writing. good. whereas james was a great one for putting the inevitable artifice of writing... absolutely. i wasn't influenced by him, ijust love him. i suspectjust reading your prose that you're one of these people, once you start a story, although you work at it very hard, and i have no doubt you are very meticul

saloons, bars, bookshops, wholesale businesses, retail. you can see the shell of the businesses across the street, ones that were oftentimes abandoned between the 1870's and the 1880's when the county seat moved from the courthouse in this building into downtown redding.

there's a book you can get at the bookshop and it's a collection of his recipes. it was inspired by a very good cook and when marty died she thought the best tribute it could be to him was to have a cookbook of his recipes. >> the thing about him is he was so remarkable in so many ways. if you just thought about him as a tax lawyer or as a professor of tax he would be extraordinarily distinguished in those ways, but all these other talents, golf, chef, he really was a unique person and it was a privilege to be his friend and to be his colleague. you include some wonderful writings by marty and you have a favorite? >> it's a great introduction, one of those is in marty's own word, in the audiobook. >> it's a fellowship program, we have a program of that. another was a speech that he had written and was planning to give to the tenth circuit judicial conference in the summer of 2010. he died in june of that year but his speech was already written out. i went to the tenth circuit and i read marty's speech and it wasn't quite the timing that he would have but it was ok

saloons, bars, bookshops, wholesale businesses, retail. you can see the shell of the businesses across the street, ones that were oftentimes abandoned between the 1870's and the 1880's when the county seat moved from the courthouse in this building into downtown redding.

saloons, bars, bookshops, wholesale businesses, retail. you can see the shell of the businesses across the street, ones that were oftentimes abandoned between the 1870's and the 1880's when the county seat moved from the courthouse in this building into downtown redding. at shasta state historic park, we share the history of the area's gold rush with our visitors as well as telling stories of how the area was first settled by the early american pioneers. one of whom was pearson martin redding who came to the area in the 1840's. at the time, he worked for another prominent california resident john sutter in sacramento and was with a small group of men early during california's gold discovery on the american river. he realized that the terrain, the geology, and the geography along the american river was very similar to the area that he had passed through and had established mexico's most northern land grant. he came to the area in 1848 and discovered gold on clear creek. word soon spread throughout the united states and the world rushed in.