TY - BOOK AU - Steele,James TI - Old Californian days T2 - The household library AV - F864 .S7 PY - 1889/// CY - Chicago PB - Belford-Clarke co. KW - Missions, Spanish KW - California KW - Ethnic groups KW - Description and travel KW - Gold discoveries N1 - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.145 ER -