Book/Printed Material Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points usually visited by tourists.
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Image 1 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 2 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I ,r^- ■■}ic *^;^i- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 3 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 7 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... OVER THE Purple Hills: OR, SKETCHES OF TRAVEL IN CALIFORNIA OF IMPORTANT POINTS USUALLY VISITED BY TOURISTS. By CAROLINE M., CHURCHILL. AUTHOR OF LITtLe SHEAVES. CHICAGO: HAZUTT REED, PRINTERS, 1 72 AND...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 8 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, hj CAROLINE M. CHURCHILL, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 9 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... I IVLy Westei^ Patrons, this volume is respectfully dedicated BY THE AUTHOR.- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 10 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 11 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... PREFACE. In making a few prefatorial remarks I desire to say that this little work, now presented to the public, is a book of travels written by a woman, and the journeyings...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 12 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 6 PREFACE. the year for the last six years. I have in the last two years disposed of seven thousand copies of my first work, which is also a book of travels,...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 13 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... PREFACE. 7 SO eccentric. Verily, the world is made up of strange inconsistencies, and I suppose that I am one of them. I would therefore like a word in justice to myself,...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 14 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 15 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... CONTENTS San Francisco and Mayfield 11 Monte Diablo 16 Bartlett s Springs 25 Stockton 59 Napa 74 Lake Tahoe 83 Coral or Alabaster Cave 113 Going into the Yosemite Valley 117 What...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 16 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 17 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... OYER THE PUEPLE HILLS. SAN FKAlSrCISCO AND MAYFIELD. LEAVING San Francisco with its damp- freighted winds, I never more fully appre- ciated the glories of the interior, those por- tions of the...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 18 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 12 OVER THE PURPLE HILLS. regions of snow and ice to the plush-covered hills of California. As we near Menlo Park the Detroit people wonder why the forest trees are not cut...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 19 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... SAN FRANCISCO AND MAYFIELD. IS The land about here is said to be owned in large tracts, so that the small farmer has no chance except bj renting; and then it seems...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 20 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 14 OVER THE PURPLE HILLS. to take them to the hunting ground, the dogs played scent and hunt around the depot in glee- ful anticipation of the game that was to be...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 21 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... SAN FRANCISCO AND MAYFIELD. 16 soil and finest climate upon the earth will only produce human animals, (classes excepted,) where the educational interest of the working people is neglected. There is probably...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 22 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... MONTE DIABLO. MONTE DIABLO is tlie name of a prom- inence three tlionsand eight luindred and lifty-eight feet above the level of the sea. This point occurs about twenty-eight miles from San...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 23 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... MONTE DIABLO. IT streets of San Francisco with its shipping may be seen upon one hand and the dome of the State House at Sacramento upon the other. In the north looms...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 24 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 18 OVER THE PURPLE HILLS. making an excellent range for grazing purposes. I tarried four days about Monte Diablo, and had the pleasure of seeing one of the most gorgeous sunsets that...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 25 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... MONTE DIABLO. 19 ing it from the elevation of the hotel some dis- tance above the valley the effect was wonderful. In a few moments it changed from a flame color to...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 26 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 20 OVER THE PUKPLE HILT^. north tlie landscape was as clear as if the hills upon the south side of the point were not entirely enveloped in this downy covering. What a...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 27 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... MONTE DIABLO. 21 upon this ocean of fog, I could imagine it peo- pled with ethereal beings, as it would require but an occasional flap of angel wings to keep afloat upon...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 28 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 22 OVER THE PURPLE HILLS. is concentrated into iron pipes and wooden flumes and dashed with Niagara force into tlie red clay bank to start from its hiding place the yellow gold...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 29 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... MONTE DIABLO. 23 lending the facination of force to the scene, all to- gether forming a fearful, moving picture, while we could stand on Monte Diablo s top and view the landscape...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 30 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 24: OVER THE PURPLE HILLS. practical life by the Sanramoon Yalley to Liver- more. This route to Monte Diablo is most desira- ble. The Sanramoon Yalley is one of the most productive...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 31 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... BAETLETT^S SPRINGS. 17^ ROM Cloverdale, which is the present ter- minus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the route to Bartlett s Springs is literally up- ward and onward. After reaching the Springs...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 32 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 2d over the purple hills. p. M. Here again is verified tlie adages which declare that there is nothing in a name, and that a rose would smell as sweet bv any...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
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Image 33 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... babtlett s springs. 2T this illuminating fluid to towns and cities, where it may be used for lighting streets and dwellings, for chemical and scientific purposes, and the con- venience of the...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 34 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 28 ovp:r the purple hills. ill the center of the streets. I think there are as many as thirty of these mighty shades along in one row, spreading their sheltering arms impar-...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 35 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 29 that it shall never develop wealth because of not being an agricultural district. When its resources for rearing sheep, goats and cattle are fully known, we shall see that wealth can...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 36 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 30 OVER THE PURPLE HILLS. no longer a wonder to me that these monnt- aineers cleave to their native hills until they become like wild men, in many respects closely resembling the...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 37 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 31 thej are not intellectual equals, do not manifest the disagreeable traits of the inferior human animal. Bartiett s Springs are situated in the northern part of Lake county, upon a spur...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 38 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 6j£ over the purple hills. drinking and washing. The results were that in a few days he began to improve, his rheumatism left him entirely, and he became perfectly sound. This discovery...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 39 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... about seventy-five of these structures upon a piece of table land where the springs come forth. Some of these cabins are accommodated with a chimney running up on the outside aft^r the...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877
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Image 40 of Over the purple hills: or, Sketches of travel in California of important points ... 34 OVER THE PURPLE HILLS. steads were of the most simple possible structure, so loosely put together as to tremble and totter with the weight of one person thej were clear from...- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1877