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Splendid Idle Forties, by Gertrude Atherton
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Title: The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California
Author: Gertrude Atherton
Release Date: June 23, 2004 [EBook #12697]
Language: English
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[Illustration: "'IT WAS ONLY THE PEARLS YOU WANTED.'"]
THE SPLENDID IDLE FORTIES
STORIES OF OLD CALIFORNIA
BY
GERTRUDE ATHERTON
AUTHOR OF "THE CONQUEROR," "SENATOR NORTH" "THE ARISTOCRATS," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRISON FISHER
1902
TO
THE BOHEMIAN CLUB
OF SAN FRANCISCO
AS A SLIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
ITS COURTESY IN PLACING
ITS FINE
LIBRARY OF CALIFORNIAN LITERATURE
AT MY DISPOSAL
NOTE
This is a revised and enlarged edition of the volume which was issued some years ago under the title, "Before the Gringo Came."
CONTENTS
THE PEARLS OF LORETO
THE EARS OF TWENTY AMERICANS
THE WASH-TUB MAIL
THE CONQUEST OF DOÑA JACOBA
A RAMBLE WITH EULOGIA
THE ISLE OF SKULLS
THE HEAD OF A PRIEST
LA PÉRDIDA
LUKARI'S STORY
NATALIE IVANHO