Old Californian days /

James Steele visited California in the 1880s. Old Californian days (1889) is the book Steele based on that trip. He provides a sketch of the history of California before the Gold Rush and surviving remnants of that history: the mission churches (San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano), Spanish-American...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Steele, James W. (James William), 1840-1905 (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : Belford-Clarke Co., 1889.
Series:	Household library (Belford, Clarke & Co.) ; v. 6, no. 3.
Subjects:	California > Description and travel. California > Gold discoveries. Missions, Spanish > California. Ethnic groups > California. Ethnic groups. Gold mines and mining. Missions, Spanish. Travel. California.
Online Access:	http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.145 https://archive.org/details/oldcalifornianda01stee

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Summary:	James Steele visited California in the 1880s. Old Californian days (1889) is the book Steele based on that trip. He provides a sketch of the history of California before the Gold Rush and surviving remnants of that history: the mission churches (San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano), Spanish-American culture in modern California, and Native American tribes.
Physical Description:	227 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations ; 20 cm. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.