The journey of the Flame
Subtitle: being an account of one year in the life of Señor Don Juan Obrigón, known during past years in the three Californias as Juan Colorado, and to the Indiada of the same as the Flame, born at San José del Arroyo, Lower California, Mexico, in 1798, and, having seen three centuries change customs and manners, died alone in 1902 at the Great Cardon, near Rosario, Mexico, with his face turned toward the south
By: written down by Antonio de Fierro Blanco [pseud.] Englished by Walter de Steiguer [pseud.] With illustrations by Alfredo Ramos Martinez.
Publisher: Printed by the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1933
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: California -- History -- To 1846 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Historical novel in the form of a personal narrative, in which a centenarian recounts adventures of his journey from Lower California to San Francisco with Don Fermin Sanhudo in 1810. Attributed to Walter Nordhoff.
Notes: Maps on lining-papers.
"The 'Journey of the Flame' is in fact an historical novel." - Introd., p. xvi.