Days of '49
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COPYRIGHT, 1925,
BY GORDON YOUNG
DAYS OF '49
—B—
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DEDICATED
TO THE
NATIVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS
OF CALIFORNIA
Foreword
“Whoever wants merely an eulogistic story of the glories of the pioneer life in California must not look for it in history, and whoever is too tender-souled to see any moral beauty or significance in events that involve much foolishness, drunkenness, brutality, and lust must find his innocent interests satisfied elsewhere. But whoever knows that the struggle for the best things of man is a struggle against the basest passions of man,and that every significant historical process is full of such struggles, is ready to understand the true interest of scenes amid which civilization sometimes seemed to have lapsed into semi-barbarism. It is, of course, impossible to read this history without occasionally feeling a natural horror of the crimes that for a while were so frequent; but one's horror is itself a weakness, and must give way, for the most part, to a simple realistic delight in the jovial fortitude wherewith this new community bore the worst consequences of its own sins, and, after a remarkably short time, learned to forsake the most serious of them. Early California history is not for babes, nor for sentimentalists; but its manly wickedness is full of the strength that, on occasion, freely converts itself into an admirable moral heroism.”—California: A Study of American Character.—By Josiah Royce
- Chapter 1 11
- Chapter 2 22
- Chapter 3 48
- Chapter 4 65
- Chapter 5 113
- Chapter 6 123
- Chapter 7 134
- Chapter 8 154
- Chapter 9 170
- Chapter 10 180
- Chapter 11 199
- Chapter 12 206
- Chapter 13 226
- Chapter 14 252
- Chapter 15 259
- Chapter 16 285
- Chapter 17 291
- Chapter 18 297
- Chapter 19 314
- Chapter 20 342
- Chapter 21 360
- Appendix 360
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