Title: Old Californian 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.
Subjects: History, Miscellanea, Description and travel, Gold discoveries, Spanish Missions, Ethnic groups
Places: California