01704cam a22002891 4500 ca 10001446 DLC 20260227111052.0 cr ||||||||||| 830608s1888 nyu 000 0 eng ca 10001446 DLC CarP DLC n-us-ca F866 .S843 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. The Silverado squatters, by Robert Louis Stevenson ... New York, J.W. Lovell company [1888] 96 p. 19 cm. Lovell's library, no. 1214 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, the Oakland woman with whom he had fallen in love in France. The two were married in the spring of 1880 and honeymooned in a cabin at Silverado, a mining ghost town on Mt. St. Helena. In the next fourteen years, Mrs. Stevenson nursed her husband while he produced the verses, stories, and books of travel and adventure that made him famous. Silverado (1888) tells the story of the newlywed Stevensons' trip to Silverado. Stevenson writes of their journey from San Francisco up the Napa Valley to Calistoga and then up the mountain to their goal. He describes their neighbors, and recounts tales of the town in its glory days as a silver mining camp. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. No known restrictions on publication. California Description and travel. Ethnic groups California. Mines and mineral resources California. calbk 132 t http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.132 14188 14188