Grass Valley, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Al Alcorn: I would fly Nolan and the guys back to Grass Valley quite often."

"I - GRASS VALLEY Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7"

"Angle of Repose I GRASS VALLEY"

"You were there. Did it use to be that way? When Shelly went down there to go to school she was the brightest girl in Grass Valley High."

"He also learned that Foote had a granddaughter living in Grass Valley, California (near the Empire Mine, where Foote’s husband had been the superintendent)."

"The Nevada City that I remember died quietly, along with Grass Valley, when the quartz mines closed down."

"‘He loves it here,’ she said, and shook her hair back, laughing her ho ho ho. 'Isn’t it a gas? He loves the country. Why didn’t you tell me about Grass Valley?’ he asks me. This is a place, this isn’t just Anywheresville. This is a place where a man could live."

"As those things went in Grass Valley, I also grew up privileged, son of the superintendent of the Zodiac and grandson of the general manager."

"“Down again where the grade stiffened past Grass Valley, and then down, down, down, three different tones, and finally there it was at the dutiful bass growl that would take it all the way over the range, and even that receding, losing itself among the pines.”"

"By then his family were living here in Grass Valley, but their son did not come the rest of the way west to see them."

"“I’ve got fifteen years of Grass Valley letters still to put in order, and there isn’t a lot of time,” Shelly said. “Isn’t a lot of time before what?” I said."