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An edition of The splendid idle forties: stories of old California (1902)

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The Macmillan Comapny, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
Language
English
Pages
389

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Subjects

Fiction, History, Spaniards, Social life and customs, Local History, American Historical fiction, Zamorano 80, California, fiction, Fiction, historical, general

Places

California

Times

To 1846

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The splendid idle forties: stories of old California
1902, F.A. Stokes
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The splendid idle forties: stories of old California
1902, Macmillan
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The splendid idle forties: stories of old California
1902, The Macmillan Company, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
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The splendid idle forties: stories of old California
1902, The Macmillan Comapny, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
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Table of Contents

1. The pearls of Loreto.
Page 1
2. The ears of twenty Americans.
Page 47
3. The wash-tub mail.
Page 129
4. The conquest of Dona Jacoba.
Page 157
5. A ramble with Eulogia.
Page 203
6. The isle of skulls.
Page 253
7. The head of a priest.
Page 281
8. La Pérdida.
Page 317
9. Lukari's story.
Page 325
10. Natalie Ivanhoff: a memory of Fort Ross.
Page 339
11. The vengeance of Padre Arroyo.
Page 357
12. The bells of San Gabriel.
Page 369
13. When the devil was well.
Page 379

Edition Notes

A revised and enlarged edition of a volume issued in 1894 under the title: Before the Gringo came.
Verso of t.p.: Set up and electrotyped October, 1902. Norwood Press.
Frontispiece and plates facing pages 76, 144, 200, 248, 264, 304 and 348.
Advertisement on page [ii].

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New York, London

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS1042 .S65 1902, PZ3.A869 Sp

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Pagination
vii, [5], 3-389, [1] p. (last p. blank), [8] leaves of plates ;
Number of pages
389

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6920805M
Internet Archive
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LCCN
02024242
OCLC/WorldCat
3408207

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1797269W

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First Sentence

"WITHIN memory of the most gnarled and coffee-coloured Montereno never had there been so exciting a race day."

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