Old Californian days
By: James Steele
Publisher: Belford-Clarke Co.
Published: 1889
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: History; Miscellanea; Description and travel; Gold discoveries; Spanish Missions; Ethnic groups
Other titles: Old California days.
Description: James Steele visited California in the 1880s. Old Californian days (1889) is the book Steele based on that trip. He provides a sketch of the history of California before the Gold Rush and surviving remnants of that history: the mission churches (San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano), Spanish-American culture in modern California, and Native American tribes.
Notes: Earlier ed. has title: Old California days.