TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bell,Horace
TI  - Reminiscences of a ranger: or, Early times in Southern California
AV  - F867 .B43 1881
PY  - 1881///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes, printers
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - California
KW  - Ethnic groups
KW  - Law
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Mines and mineral resources
KW  - Business
KW  - California, Southern
N1  - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site
N2  - Horace Bell (1830-1918) left Indiana to seek gold in California. In 1852, he moved to Los Angeles and later became involved in American filibustering in Latin America and saw service in the Union Army before returning to Los Angeles after the Civil War to become a lawyer and newspaper publisher. Reminiscences of a ranger (1881) includes anecdotes of Bell's experiences as a Los Angeles Ranger pursuing Joaquin Murietta in 1853, a soldier of fortune in Latin America, a Union officer in the Civil War, and a Los Angeles newspaper editor. He provides lively ancedotes of Los Angeles and its residents under Mexican and American rule, emphasizing cowboys and criminals and native Americans. Throughout, Bell gives special attention to the fate of Hispanic Californians and Native Americans under the United States regime. For another collection of Bell's reminiscences, see On the old west coast (1930)
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/calbk.103
ER  -