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By Helen Elliot Bandini

By Helen Elliot Bandini


Illustrated By Roy J. Warren

B. Cal. W. P. 16





CONTENTS

Preface

History of California

Chapter I. — The Land and the Name

Chapter II. — The Story of the Indians

Chapter III. — “The Secret of the Strait”

Chapter IV. — The Cross of Santa Fe

Chapter V. — Pastoral Days

Chapter VI. — The Footsteps of the Stranger

Chapter VII. — At the Touch of King Midas

Chapter VIII. — The Great Stampede

Chapter IX. — The Birth of the Golden Baby

Chapter X. — The Signal Gun and the Steel Trail

Chapter XI. — That Which Followed After

Chapter XII. — “The Groves Were God’s First Temples”

Chapter XIII. — To All that Sow the Time of Harvest Should be Given

Chapter XIV. — The Golden Apples of the Hesperides

Chapter XV. — California’s other Contributions to the World’s Bill of Fare

Chapter XVI. — The Hidden Treasures of Mother Earth

Chapter XVII. — From La Escuela of Spanish California to the Schools of the Twentieth

Chapter XVIII. — Statistics

Counties of California

List of Governors

Bibliography

Index







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