Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
PAGE I. The Sparrow Hawk's Own 1 II. Mothering Mountains 25 III. The Coasts of Adventure 45 IV. The Port of Monterey 61 V. Old Spanish Gardens 85 VI. The Land of the Little Duck 105 VII. The Twin Valleys 125 VIII. The High Sierras and the Sage-brush Country 147
Very different from the spring flutter and fullness, must have been the look of the land in the year of the martyrdom of Padre Jayme Bravo, which was the year of Bunker Hill and...
5. Part 5The forests of Point Pinos are sanctuary. It is still possible to hear there at long intervals the demoniac howl of the little grey dog of the wilderness, "Brother Coyote," the...
8. Part 8Geographically the range begins on the south at Tehachapi, but at Walker's Pass, a day's journey to the north, is the first appearance of its most salient characteristic, the gr...
3. Part 3Entering the cañons of the San Gabriel, one is struck with the endearing quality of their charm. In a country which disdains every sort of prettiness, and dares even to use mono...
7. Part 7One is reduced to the figures of the real estate "booster" for terms of proportion. That modest checkering of green, hours away to the left, is a forty-mile field of alfalfa; be...
6. Part 6Where the twin rivers set back the tides from the bay, the Land of the Little Duck begins. The tides come head-on past the Golden Gate and the river answers to their tremendous...
4. Part 4The bay lies squarely fronting the Pacific swell, about a hundred miles south of the Golden Gate, between the horns of two of the little tumbled coast ranges, cutting back to re...
1. Part 1PAGE I. The Sparrow Hawk's Own 1 II. Mothering Mountains 25 III. The Coasts of Adventure 45 IV. The Port of Monterey 61 V. Old Spanish Gardens 85 VI. The Land of the Little Duck...
9. Part 9Another item which adds to the suggestion of the illimitable spread of sage-brush country, like the sea, is the way the sparse forests of the mountain-tops appear to be islanded...