The  splendid idle forties
Subtitle: stories of old California.
By: With illus. by Harrison Fisher.
Series: Americans in fiction
Publisher: Gregg Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Ridgewood, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Spaniards -- California -- Fiction; Historical fiction, American; California -- History -- To 1846 -- Fiction
Notes: First published in 1894 under title: Before the gringo came.
Table of contents: title: The pearls of Loreto.; title: The ears of twenty Americans.; title: The wash-tub mail.; title: The conquest of Doña Jacoba.; title: A ramble with Eulogia.; title: The isle of skulls.; title: The head of a priest.; title: La pérdida.; title: Lukari's story.; title: Natalie Ivanhoff; a memory of Fort Ross.; title: The vengeance of Padre Arroyo.; title: The bells of San Gabriel.; title: When the devil was well.