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The splendid idle forties : stories of old California
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- Creator
- by Gertrude Atherton ; with illustrations by Harrison Fisher
- Included Title
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- Before the Gringo came
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1902
- Physical Details
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- vii, 5 unnumbered pages, 3-389, 1 unnumbered page (last blank), 8 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 21 cm
- OCLC
- ocm03408207
- 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].
- The pearls of Loreto.--The ears of twenty Americans.--The wash-tub mail.--The conquest of Doña Jacoba.--A ramble with Eulogia.--The isle of skulls.--The head of a priest.--La Pérdida.--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