This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.

Printed For The Honnold Library Of The Associated Colleges.

1924. A book of California verse. Not since Edward Rowland Sill have any poems appeared which have more fully caught the spirit and quality of atmosphere, setting and beauty that distinguish the outdoor world of California from that of other parts of our country. The poems cover a wide range of thought and feeling and there is much variety in both content and form. There is much to like about their nature freshness, their tenderness and their human sympathy.

And In El Pueblo De Nuestra Senora De Los Angeles While It Was Yet A Small And Humble Town; Together With An Account Of How Three Young Men From Maine In 1853 Drove Sheep And Cattle Across The Plains, Mountains And Deserts From Illinois To The Pacific Coast And The Strange Prophecy Of Admiral Thatcher About San Pedro Harbor.

1924. A book of California verse. Not since Edward Rowland Sill have any poems appeared which have more fully caught the spirit and quality of atmosphere, setting and beauty that distinguish the outdoor world of California from that of other parts of our country. The poems cover a wide range of thought and feeling and there is much variety in both content and form. There is much to like about their nature freshness, their tenderness and their human sympathy.

And In El Pueblo De Nuestra Senora De Los Angeles While It Was Yet A Small And Humble Town; Together With An Account Of How Three Young Men From Maine In 1853 Drove Sheep And Cattle Across The Plains, Mountains And Deserts From Illinois To The Pacific Coast And The Strange Prophecy Of Admiral Thatcher About San Pedro Harbor.

And In El Pueblo De Nuestra Senora De Los Angeles While It Was Yet A Small And Humble Town; Together With An Account Of How Three Young Men From Maine In 1853 Drove Sheep And Cattle Across The Plains, Mountains And Deserts From Illinois To The Pacific Coast And The Strange Prophecy Of Admiral Thatcher About San Pedro Harbor.

1924. A book of California verse. Not since Edward Rowland Sill have any poems appeared which have more fully caught the spirit and quality of atmosphere, setting and beauty that distinguish the outdoor world of California from that of other parts of our country. The poems cover a wide range of thought and feeling and there is much variety in both content and form. There is much to like about their nature freshness, their tenderness and their human sympathy.

In this rollicking reminiscence Sarah Bixby Smith tells of Los Angeles when it was “a little frontier town” and “Bunker Hill Avenue was the end of the settlement, a row of scattered houses along the ridge.” 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.