California. Searching for the Golden State. By James D. Houston. NY: Knopf, 1982. 1st ed. Lge 8vo. viii, 288pp., notes. 1/4 cloth, maps as endpapers, corners rubbed, else Fair+ in chipped illust. DJ. The author taught Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz and in 1973 coauthored with his wife Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar.