Latest volume in the series “Something From Nothing, The Early History Of West Calaveras County” is a 48-page color magazine featuring articles by historian Sal Manna which have appeared in The Valley Springs News. Vol. III includes the only known photo of Sgt. John Dawson, the Mother Lode’s only African-American Civil War soldier, and stories on Pardee Dam, a 1916 trip across America in a Model T, Calaverasites on the Klondike Gold Rush, Native American rock art, World War I’s Calaveras Liberty Boys and notorious murderer Troy Dye.