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Title: Adobe days : being the truthful narrative of the events in the life of a California girl on a sheep ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles while it was yet a small and humble town; together with an account of how three young men from Maine in eighteen hundred and fifty-three drove sheep and cattle across the plains, mountains and deserts from Illinois to the Pacific coast; and the strange prophecy of Admiral Thatcher about San Pedro harbor

Original Publication: Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1925.

Credits: Carla Foust, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Summary: A native Californian, Sarah Hathaway Bixby Smith (1871-1935) was born at her family's sheep ranch near San Juan Bautista, where she lived until the family moved to Los Angeles some six years later. Her father, Llewellyn Bixby, had left Maine to settle in the West in 1851, and he and his brothers became one of southern California's most influential families. Adobe days (1925) is Mrs. Smith's account of her early childhood on the ranch and trips east to visit relatives in Maine, girlhood in Los Angeles, visits to Los Cerritos and Los Alamitos ranches, and her education in Los Angeles public schools and at Pomona and Wellesley Colleges. She supplements this with the life of her father, Llewellyn Bixby: his journey to California via Panama and months as a prospector at the Volcano Diggings, cattle and sheep drives across country, and real estate investments in Los Angeles and neighboring counties. More generally, she discusses the role of Mexican and Chinese servants and other aspects of housekeeping and childrearing, sheep husbandry and the wool business, Los Angeles's growth, the history of Southern California under the Spanish, and the evolution of Pasadena, Riverside, Anaheim, and San Bernardino.

Author: Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935

EBook No.: 74799

Published: Nov 26, 2024

Downloads: 1454

Language: English

Subject: Agriculture -- California

Subject: Urbanization -- California

Subject: Real estate development -- California

Subject: Mines and mineral resources -- California

Subject: Ethnic groups -- California

Subject: Women -- California

Subject: Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935 -- Childhood and youth

Subject: Sheep ranches -- California

Subject: Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Los Angeles

Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography

Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History

LoCC: United States local history: Pacific States

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

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2024-12-23T13:30:36Z Adobe days : being the truthful narrative of the events in the life of a California girl on a sheep ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles while it was yet a small and humble town; together with an account of how three young men from Maine in eighteen hundred and fifty-three drove sheep and cattle across the plains, mountains and deserts from Illinois to the Pacific coast; and the strange prophecy of Admiral Thatcher about San Pedro harbor

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Title: Adobe days : being the truthful narrative of the events in the life of a California girl on a sheep ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles while it was yet a small and humble town; together with an account of how three young men from Maine in eighteen hundred and fifty-three drove sheep and cattle across the plains, mountains and deserts from Illinois to the Pacific coast; and the strange prophecy of Admiral Thatcher about San Pedro harbor

Original Publication: Cedar Rapids: The Torch Press, 1925.

Credits: Carla Foust, Craig Kirkwood, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https: //www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Summary: A native Californian, Sarah Hathaway Bixby Smith (1871-1935) was born at her family's sheep ranch near San Juan Bautista, where she lived until the family moved to Los Angeles some six years later. Her father, Llewellyn Bixby, had left Maine to settle in the West in 1851, and he and his brothers became one of southern California's most influential families. Adobe days (1925) is Mrs. Smith's account of her early childhood on the ranch and trips east to visit relatives in Maine, girlhood in Los Angeles, visits to Los Cerritos and Los Alamitos ranches, and her education in Los Angeles public schools and at Pomona and Wellesley Colleges. She supplements this with the life of her father, Llewellyn Bixby: his journey to California via Panama and months as a prospector at the Volcano Diggings, cattle and sheep drives across country, and real estate investments in Los Angeles and neighboring counties. More generally, she discusses the role of Mexican and Chinese servants and other aspects of housekeeping and childrearing, sheep husbandry and the wool business, Los Angeles's growth, the history of Southern California under the Spanish, and the evolution of Pasadena, Riverside, Anaheim, and San Bernardino.

Author: Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935

EBook No.: 74799

Published: Nov 26, 2024

Downloads: 1454

Language: English

Subject: Agriculture -- California

Subject: Urbanization -- California

Subject: Real estate development -- California

Subject: Mines and mineral resources -- California

Subject: Ethnic groups -- California

Subject: Women -- California

Subject: Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935 -- Childhood and youth

Subject: Sheep ranches -- California

Subject: Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Los Angeles

Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography

Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History

LoCC: United States local history: Pacific States

Category: Text

Rights: Public domain in the USA.

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