| By Shore and Sedge Contributor(s): Harte, Bret (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421896214 ISBN-13: 9781421896212 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $10.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2007 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.46 lbs) 160 pages |
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| Publisher Description: On October 10, 1856, about four hundred people were camped in Tasajara Valley, California. It could not have been for the prospect, since a more barren, dreary, mono-tonous, and uninviting landscape never stretched before human eye; it could not have been for convenience or contiguity, as the nearest settlement was thirty miles away; it could not have been for health or salubrity, as the breath of the ague-haunted tules in the outlying Stockton marshes swept through the valley; it could not have been for space or comfort, for, encamped on an unlimited plain, men and women were huddled together as closely as in an urban tenement-house, without the freedom or decency of rural isolation; it could not have been for pleasant companionship, as dejection, mental anxiety, tears, and lamentation were the dominant expression; it was not a hurried flight from present or impending calamity, for the camp had been deliberately planned, and for a week pioneer wagons had been slowly arriving; it was not an irrevocable exodus, for some had already returned to their homes that others might take their places. It was simply a religious revival of one or two denominational sects, known as a "camp-meeting." |
