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Author Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.

Title The splendid idle forties [microform] : stories of old California / by Gertrude Atherton ; with illustrations by Harrison Fisher.

Imprint New York : The Macmillan Company, 1902.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Basement Library of American Civilization Microfiche Cabinets  LAC 11818    ---  Available
Description vii, 389 p. : front., plates.
Series Library of American civilization ; LAC 11818
Note A revised and enlarged edition of a volume issued in 1894 under the title: Before the Gringo came.
Contents The pearls of Loreto -- The ears of twenty Americans -- The wash-tub mail -- The conquest of Doņa Jacoba -- A ramble with Eulogia -- The isle of skulls -- The head of a priest -- La Perdida -- Lukari's story -- Natalie Ivanhoff: a memory of Fort Ross -- The vengeance of Padre Arroyo -- The bells of San Gabriel -- When the devil was well.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 11818)
Subject California -- History, Local.

 
    
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