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Helen Hunt Jackson. Glimpses of Three Coasts
Glimpses of Three Coasts
Table of Contents
I. CALIFORNIA AND OREGON
OUTDOOR INDUSTRIES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
FATHER JUNIPERO AND HIS WORK. A SKETCH OF THE FOUNDATION, PROSPERITY, AND RUIN OF THE FRANCISCAN MISSIONS IN CALIFORNIA
THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE MISSION INDIANS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ECHOES IN THE CITY OF THE ANGELS
CHANCE DAYS IN OREGON
II. SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND
A BURNS PILGRIMAGE
GLINTS IN AULD REEKIE
CHESTER STREETS
III. NORWAY, DENMARK, AND GERMANY
BERGEN DAYS
FOUR DAYS WITH SANNA
THE KATRINA SAGA
ENCYCLICALS OF A TRAVELLER
THE VILLAGE OF OBERAMMERGAU
THE PASSION PLAY AT OBERAMMERGAU
Footnote
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The crop for 1881, in the four southern counties, was estimated at three millions of pounds; a statistic that must seem surprising to General Fremont, who, in his report to Congress of explorations on the Pacific coast in 1844, stated that the honey-bee could not exist west of the Sierra Nevadas.
A striking instance of this is to be seen in one of the most beautiful cañons of the San Gabriel valley, where, living in a three-roomed, redwood log cabin, with a vine-covered booth in front, is an old man kings might envy.
