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Description for Adobe Days
Paperback. Num Pages: 154 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803291782
SKU
V9780803291782
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About Sarah Bixby Smith
Gloria Ricci Lothrop is a professor of history at California State Polytechnic University.
Reviews for Adobe Days
"A description of California between the mining rush and the tourist rush. . . . A rich resource in the study of Southern California's social history. . . [And a] rare description of a child's life in the West."—Gloria Ricci Lathrop