Steele, James.

Old Californian days [by] James Steele ... - Chicago, Belford-Clarke co., 1889. - viii, 9-227 p. incl. front., illus. 20 cm. - The household library ; v. 6, no. 3 . - Household library (Belford, Clarke & Co.) ; v. 6, no. 3. .

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.




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Missions, Spanish--California.
Ethnic groups--California.


California--Description and travel.
California--Gold discoveries.

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