Hello everyone: I just found this interesting book that includes two sections about California that's available online on the Internet Archive. "Western Wilds and the Men Who Redeem Them," by John Hanson Beadle, Cincinnati, Chicago (etc.), Jones Brothers & Co., 1878. https://archive.org/details/westernwildsmenw01bead (A couple of the chapters include the California subjects listed below, and many other states are described: Kansas, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon, & Texas. There are many sketches included.) Chapter XII. The Pacific Slope. Westward again - Corrine - Promontory - Dead Fall, Murder Gulch, Last Chance and Painted Post. - "Do me a favor: shoot me through the head!" - Fine morality of the gamblers - The Great Nevada Desert - "Sinks" - Up the Truckee - State Line - Down the Sierras - Wonders of Cape Horn - Sacramento - "San Joeykwin" - Or San Wahkeen? - In Yolo County - Davisville - Chineses and silk culture - Tules - Fruits and wine - Does it supersede whiskey? - The California seasons - "Frisco." - Chinese Theater - The Tragedy of Rip sah - Buddhist ceremonies - A gloomy sort of religion - 'Top-side Josh - The devil-drive - "Chinaman like Melica man." pp. 103-116 Chapter X. The Wonders of California. All aboard for Yosemite! - From chilly 'Frisco' to melting Stockton - By rail to Milton - Hot drive among the foothills - Cooperopolis - The broiling stage; air dead calm; thermometer 100 degrees - In the cool grove at last - The vegetable wonders of the world - A tree thirty-two feet thick - "Father and Mother" - "Husband and Wife," 250 feet high - "Uncle Tom's Cabke" - How came they here? - California names - Over Table Mountain - "Truthful James" - Old mining towns - Sonora - Chinese Camp - Garrotte - The Tuolumne Grove - Tamarack Flat - Reminiscences of the "strong-minded." - First view of Yosemite - Prospect Peak - The terrible descent - A fall 2,667 feet - El Capitan; Tu-toch-ah-uu-lo - A reverie on Cosmos - Mirror Lake - Reflected glories - The climb to Nevada Falls - Down to Vernal falls - The sublime and beautiful - J. M. Hutchings, the pioneer - "Spirit of the Evil Wind" - "Great Chief of the Valley" - Down hill to San Francisco - Climate of the Coast - A day at the Cliff House - Poluphloisboio Thalances (?) - Regretful good-bye to the Pacific Coast, pp. 140-163 Peggy Peggy B. Perazzo pbperazzo@comcast.net Stone Quarries and Beyond http://quarriesandbeyond.org/