Title: The sunset land
First published: 1869
Description: John Todd (1800-1873), a Congregationalist clergyman in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, wrote widely and published several religious magazines. The sunset land (1870) contains Todd's experiences as a visitor to California in the mid 1860s, with essays on the state's history, climate, agricultural products, and geology; gold mining; the Calaveras redwoods; and Yosemite Valley. He devotes a chapter to Mormonism and what he believes to be its inevitable decline; another, to the triumph of the transcontinental railroad; and a third, to the city of San Francisco.
Subjects: Mormon Church, Description and travel, Business, Mines and mineral resources, Agriculture, Ethnic groups, Mormons and Mormonism, Mormons
Places: California
LC classification: F866 .T6