Sketches of Early California: A Collection of Personal Adventures

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1971 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Introduction and commentaries by Oscar Lewis. viii, 181pp. Illustrated throughout with sketches and early prints, map. Yellow cloth. A very fine and bright copy with price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket with the lightest of rubbing and edgewear. A collection of first-hand accounts of the most dramatic decade in California history, from the late 1830's to the Gold Rush days. Includes Rancho and Mission Days by Guadalupe Vallejo; Priests and Mission Life by William Heath Davis; The First Emigrant Train by John Bidwell; A Glimpse of Domestic Life in 1828 by Brigida Briones; No Place for a Woman by Dame Shirley, and more..