California Sketches New And Old
Author: first_name: Oscar Penn
last_name: Fitzgerald
Language: English
Year: 1895

Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps, lost clergymen, freed slaves, Northern sympathizers, Southern sympathizers, soldiers…. Oscar Penn Fitzgerald was a Methodist clergyman, journalist and educator. He served as California Superintendent of Public Instruction (1867–1871). His <i>California Sketches</i> were published in two series (1879 and 1881) and a consolidated volume (1895). This reading i