Author: JAMES, GEORGE WHARTON
Title: Heroes of California the Story of the Founders of the Golden State As Narrated By Themselves Or Gleaned from Other Sources
Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There are two markings in the book showing that it was part of a private library -- a hand inked note on the rear pastedown and an ink stamp on the bottom edge of the text block. As best I can make out, this book was the property of the S. P. Co. Railway Library (Southern Pacific). "James had a long-running feud with Charles Fletcher Lummis, a California writer with similar regional interests. Both men also explored the American Southwest, becoming acquainted with Father Anton Docher, a French-born missionary priest who served at Pueblo of Isleta in New Mexico for 34 years. James's books included the well-received The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (1906) , Through Ramona's Country (1909) , In and Out of the Old Missions of California (1905) , and The Lake of the Sky (1915). Characteristics of his writing included romanticism, an enthusiasm for natural environments, idealization of aboriginal lifeways, and promotion of health fads. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Californiana George Wharton James California History Western Americana Biography California Biography
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Title: Heroes of California the Story of the Founders of the Golden State As Narrated By Themselves Or Gleaned from Other Sources
Description: Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There are two markings in the book showing that it was part of a private library -- a hand inked note on the rear pastedown and an ink stamp on the bottom edge of the text block. As best I can make out, this book was the property of the S. P. Co. Railway Library (Southern Pacific). "James had a long-running feud with Charles Fletcher Lummis, a California writer with similar regional interests. Both men also explored the American Southwest, becoming acquainted with Father Anton Docher, a French-born missionary priest who served at Pueblo of Isleta in New Mexico for 34 years. James's books included the well-received The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (1906) , Through Ramona's Country (1909) , In and Out of the Old Missions of California (1905) , and The Lake of the Sky (1915). Characteristics of his writing included romanticism, an enthusiasm for natural environments, idealization of aboriginal lifeways, and promotion of health fads. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Californiana George Wharton James California History Western Americana Biography California Biography
Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 42134
- Book number: 42134
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