Adobe Days
Published on 6. November 2015
146 pages
978-1-78625-485-6 (ISBN)
Description
"e;In this rollicking reminiscence Sarah Bixby Smith tells of Los Angeles when it was "e;a little frontier town"e; and "e;Bunker Hill Avenue was the end of the settlement, a row of scattered houses along the ridge."e; She came there in 1878 at the age of seven from the San Justo Rancho in Monterey County. Sarah recalls daily life in town and at San Justo and neighboring ranches in the bygone era of the adobes. Exerting a strong pull on her imagination, as it will on the reader's, is the story of how her family drove sheep and cattle from Illinois to the Pacific Coast in the 1850s. The daughter of a pioneering woolgrower, Sarah Bixby Smith became a leading citizen of California."e;-Print ed.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- FOREWORD
- NOTE TO SECOND EDITION
- CHAPTER I - BACKGROUND
- CHAPTER II - THE VERY LITTLE GIRL
- CHAPTER III - DOWN IN MAINE
- CHAPTER IV - FATHER'S STORY
- CHAPTER V - DRIVING SHEEP ACROSS THE PLAINS
- CHAPTER VI - RANCHO SAN JUSTO
- CHAPTER VII - LOS ALAMITOS AND LOS CERRITOS
- CHAPTER VIII - THE RANCH STORY CONTINUED
- CHAPTER IX - FLOCKS AND HERDS
- CHAPTER X - EL PUEBLO DE NUESTRA SENORA LA REINA DE LOS ANGELES
- CHAPTER XI - MORE ABOUT LOS ANGELES
- CHAPTER XII - THE BACK COUNTRY AND THE ADMIRAL
- CHAPTER XIII - SCHOOL DAYS
- CHAPTER XIV - PIONEERING AT POMONA COLLEGE
- CHAPTER XV - CONCLUSION
