Project Gutenberg 2024-11-26 Public domain in the USA. 925 Bixby Smith, Sarah 1871 1935 Smith, Sarah Bixby Smith, Sarah Hathaway Bixby Bixby-Smith, Sarah Adobe days : $b 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 $aCedar Rapids :$bThe Torch Press, $c1925. 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) 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. https://archive.org/details/adobedaysbeingtr0000bixb_p3f3/mode/2up 20230811050749bixbysmith 1925 US en Agriculture -- California Urbanization -- California Real estate development -- California Mines and mineral resources -- California Ethnic groups -- California Women -- California Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935 -- Childhood and youth Sheep ranches -- California Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Los Angeles Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History F850.5 Text 365118 2024-11-26T00:00:46.951016 text/html 340137 2024-11-25T22:36:55 text/html 601056 2024-11-26T00:01:05.399385 application/epub+zip 599190 2024-11-26T00:00:55.386919 application/epub+zip 316015 2024-11-26T00:00:49.794938 application/epub+zip 1215016 2024-11-26T00:01:14.554318 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1184072 2024-11-26T00:01:04.716872 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 334759 2024-11-26T00:00:46.335969 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 314456 2024-11-25T22:36:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 4400 2024-11-26T00:01:14.678308 application/rdf+xml 13119 2024-11-26T00:00:54.783897 image/jpeg 1945 2024-11-26T00:00:54.678911 image/jpeg 744234 2024-11-26T00:00:47.001946 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia