The Little Lady of Lagunitas. Richard Savage

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066214388

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       INTRODUCTION.

       LAGUNITAS.

       BOOK I. — THE LAST OF THE DONS BY THE BLUE PACIFIC.

       CHAPTER I. — UNDER THE MEXICAN EAGLE.—EXIT THE FOREIGNER.—MONTEREY, 1840.

       CHAPTER II. — AT THE PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO.—WEDDING CHIMES FROM THE MISSION DOLORES.—LAGUNITAS RANCHO.

       CHAPTER III. — A MISSING SENTINEL.—-FREMONT'S CAMP.

       CHAPTER IV. — HELD BY THE ENEMY.—"THE BEAR FLAG."

       BOOK II. — GOLD FOR ALL.—A NEW STAR IN THE FLAG.

       CHAPTER V. — THE GOLDEN MAGNET.—FREE OR SLAVE?

       CHAPTER VI. — LIGHTING FREEDOM'S WESTERN LAMP.

       CHAPTER VII. — THE QUEEN OF THE EL DORADO.—GUILTY BONDS.

       CHAPTER VIII. — JOAQUIN, THE MOUNTAIN ROBBER.—THE DON'S PERIL.

       "JOAQUIN."

       CHAPTER IX. — THE STRANGER'S FOOT AT LAGUNITAS. VALOIS' SPANISH BRIDE.

       BOOK III. — GOING HOME TO DIXIE: STARS AND STRIPES, OR STARS AND BARS?

       CHAPTER X. — A LITTLE DINNER AT JUDGE HARDIN'S.—THE KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE.

       CHAPTER XI. — "I'SE GWINE BACK TO DIXIE."—THE FORTUNES OF WAR.—VAL VERDE.

       CHAPTER XII. — HOOD'S DAY.—PEACHTREE CREEK.—VALOIS' LAST TRUST.—DE GRESS' BATTERY.—DEAD ON THE FIELD OF HONOR.

       BOOK IV. — A LOST HEIRESS.—MILLIONS AT STAKE.

       CHAPTER XIII. — MOUNT DAVIDSON'S MAGIC MILLIONS.—A CALIFORNIA PLUTOCRACY.—THE PRICE OF A CRIME.

       CHAPTER XIV. — A MARIPOSA BONANZA.—NATALIE DE SANTOS BORN IN PARIS.—THE QUEEN OF THE EL DORADO JOINS THE GALLIC "FOUR HUNDRED."

       CHAPTER XV. — AN OLD PRIEST AND A YOUNG ARTIST.—THE CHANGELINGS.

       CHAPTER XVI. — NEARING EACH OTHER.—THE VALOIS HEIRS.

       CHAPTER XVII. — WEAVING SPIDERS.—A COWARD BLOW.—MARIE BRARD'S DOOM.

       "YOURS, MAXIME VALOIS."

       "PEYTON."

       PHILIP.

       BOOK V. — REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.

       CHAPTER XVIII. — JOE WOODS SURPRISES A LADY.—LOVE'S GOLDEN NETS.

       SAN FRANCISCO.

       HARDIN.

       "THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

       CHAPTER XIX. — LOVERS ONCE.—STRANGERS NOW.—FACE TO FACE.

       CHAPTER XX. — JUDGE HARDIN MEETS HIS MATCH.—A SENATORIAL ELECTION.—IN A MARIPOSA COURT-ROOM.—THE TRUST FULFILLED AT LAGUNITAS.

INTRODUCTION.

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      Forty-two years have passed since California's golden star first glittered in the flag of the United States of America.

      Its chequered history virtually begins with the rush for gold in '48-'49.

      Acquired for the evident purpose of extending slave-holding territory, it was occupied for years by a multitude of cosmopolitan "free lances," who swept away the defenceless Indians, and brutally robbed the great native families, the old "Dons."

      Society slowly made headway against these motley СКАЧАТЬ