| Adobe Days Contributor(s): Smith, Sarah Bixby (Author), Lothrop, Gloria Ricci (Foreword by), Cowan, Robert Ernest (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0803291787 ISBN-13: 9780803291782 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1987 Annotation: In this rollicking reminiscence Sarah Bixby Smith tells of Los Angeles when it was " a little frontier town" and " Bunker Hill Avenue was the end of the settlement, a row of scattered houses along the ridge." She came there in 1878 at the age of seven from the San Justo Rancho in Monterey County. Sarah recalls daily life in town and at San Justo and neighboring ranches in the bygone era of the adobes. Exerting a strong pull on her imagination, as it will on the reader' s, is the story of how her family drove sheep and cattle from Illinois to the Pacific Coast in the 1850s. The daughter of a pioneering woolgrower, Sarah Bixby Smith became a leading citizen of California. In her foreword to the Bison Book edition, Gloria Ricci Lothrop discusses, among other things, the value of "Adobe Days" in helping to fill in the "silent history" of women and children in the Old West. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 87005936 |
| Lexile Measure: 1360 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.97" W x 8.99" (0.55 lbs) 154 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this rollicking reminiscence Sarah Bixby Smith tells of Los Angeles when it was "a little frontier town" and "Bunker Hill Avenue was the end of the settlement, a row of scattered houses along the ridge." She came there in 1878 at the age of seven from the San Justo Rancho in Monterey County. Sarah recalls daily life in town and at San Justo and neighboring ranches in the bygone era of the adobes. Exerting a strong pull on her imagination, as it will on the reader's, is the story of how her family drove sheep and cattle from Illinois to the Pacific Coast in the 1850s. The daughter of a pioneering woolgrower, Sarah Bixby Smith became a leading citizen of California. Gloria Ricci Lothrop is a professor of history at California State Polytechnic University. |