Spotted Dog Press was founded in 1995 with the publication of its first book "Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles." SDP INC publishes several books on the area including the bestselling local guidebook "Climbing Mt. Whitney" (Peter Croft); "Close Ups of the High Sierra" (Norman Clyde); "Death Valley to Yosemite: Frontier Mining Camps and Ghost Towns" (Mary DeDecker and L. Burr Belden); "Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans" (Ansel Adams); "Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall" (Valerie Mendenhall Cohen).