Untold Tales of California: Short Stories Illustrating Phases of Life Peculiar to Early Days in the West, Embalmed in Book That They May Remain When the Actors Are Gone (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The men who were participants in, or at least witnesses of, many characteristic tragedies or other thrilling or interesting happenings of the earlier California life, and who have fascinated succeeding generations by their narratives, are fast passing to their reward, and very soon some of the richest true stories of Western life will be told for the last time unless they can be embalmed in literature while at least a few of the actors are yet here to authenticate them. Untold Tales, which is to say unrecorded tales of California, is a theme worthy of the ablest pen, and the data necessary to its com pleteness is deserving of extended research. It may now be too late to do the subject full jus tice, as doubtless many interesting stories aregone with those whose words or deeds created them.

It is with the view of recording a few inci dents and happenings peculiar to early life in California, which otherwise might soon be for gotten, that the following brief stories are writ ten, and not with any hope of domg the subject that full justice which ought to be done by some one who has more talent and time to devote to it.

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