Excerpt from California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride From Mexico to Oregon In describing the features of the scenery no at tempt has been made to paint in high colors. In deed, on a te-reading of the manuscript the im pression is that, in the desire to avoid the flamboy ant at all hazards, the balance may have been weighted a trifle on the conservative side. But if a mistake has been made, it is in the right direction; and the writer states here his plain belief that Cali formia, with her magnificent mountain ...
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Excerpt from California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride From Mexico to Oregon In describing the features of the scenery no at tempt has been made to paint in high colors. In deed, on a te-reading of the manuscript the im pression is that, in the desire to avoid the flamboy ant at all hazards, the balance may have been weighted a trifle on the conservative side. But if a mistake has been made, it is in the right direction; and the writer states here his plain belief that Cali formia, with her magnificent mountain range of the Sierra Nevada, her generally diversified configura tion, a shore-line extending through nearly ten de grees of latitude (with the variety in climate and in animal and vegetable life which that fact implies), and a history tinged first with the half-pathetic ro mance of Spain and then by the brief but lurid Epic of Gold, is by much the most beautiful, interesting, and attractive of all the States of the Union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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