Adobe days
by Sarah Bixby Smith
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935
- Title
- Adobe days : being the truthful narrative of the events in the life of a California girl on a sheep ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles while it was yet a small and humble town; together with an account of how three young men from Maine in eighteen hundred and fifty-three drove sheep and cattle across the plains, mountains and deserts from Illinois to the Pacific coast; and the strange prophecy of Admiral Thatcher about San Pedro harbor
- Original Publication
- Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1925.
- Credits
- Carla Foust, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F850.5: United States local history: Pacific States
- Subject
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 74799
- Release Date
- November 26, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Untitled
- 3.ADOBE DAYS
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.CONTENTS
- 7.FOREWORD
- 8.Untitled
- 9.CHAPTER I BACKGROUND
- 10.CHAPTER II THE VERY LITTLE GIRL
- 11.CHAPTER III DOWN IN MAINE
- 12.CHAPTER IV FATHER’S STORY
- 13.CHAPTER V DRIVING SHEEP ACROSS THE PLAINS
- 14.CHAPTER VI RANCHO SAN JUSTO
- 15.CHAPTER VII LOS ALAMITOS AND LOS CERRITOS
- 16.CHAPTER VIII THE RANCH STORY CONTINUED
- 17.CHAPTER IX FLOCKS AND HERDS
- 18.CHAPTER X EL PUEBLO DE NUESTRA SEÑORA LA REINA DE LOS ANGELES
- 19.CHAPTER XI MORE ABOUT LOS ANGELES
- 20.CHAPTER XII THE BACK COUNTRY AND THE ADMIRAL
- 21.CHAPTER XIII SCHOOL DAYS
- 22.CHAPTER XIV PIONEERING AT POMONA COLLEGE
- 23.CHAPTER XV CONCLUSION
- 24.Transcriber’s Notes:
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