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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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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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Library of Congress
PS1042 .S65 1902

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

ID Numbers

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OL6920805M
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LCCN
02024242
OCLC/WorldCat
3408207

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

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