The splendid idle forties : stories of old California

Author(s)

• Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Bibliographic Information

The splendid idle forties : stories of old California

by Gertrude Atherton ; with illustratiions by Harrison Fisher

（Americans in fiction, 49）

Gregg Press, 1968

Other Title

Before the gringo came

Note

First published in 1894 under title: Before the gringo came

Reprint of: MacMillan, 1902

Contents of Works

• The pearls of Loreto
• The ears of twenty Americans
• The wash-tub mail
• The conquest of Doña Jacoba
• A ramble with Eulogia
• The isle of skulls
• The head of a priest
• La pérdida
• Lukari's story
• Natalie Ivanhoff : a memory of Fort Ross
• The vengeance of Padre Arroyo
• The bells of San Gabriel
• When the devil was well

Details

• NCID: BA02988368
• LCCN: 68020004
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ridgewood, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 389 p., [8] leaves of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10174828