Adobe days : being the truthful narrative of the events in the life of a California girl on a sheep ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles while it was yet a small and humble town ... / by Sarah Bixby Smith ; introduction by Robert Ernest Cowan ; foreword by Gloria Ricci Lothrop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935--Childhood and youth.

Bixby Smith, Sarah.

Bixby Smith, Sarah, 1871-1935.

Sheep ranches--California.

Sheep ranches.

Frontier and pioneer life--California--Los Angeles.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Biography.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

California--Los Angeles.

California.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 148 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1987]

Summary:

In this rollicking reminiscence Sarah Bixby Smith tells of Los Angeles when it was " a little frontier town" and " Bunker Hill Avenue was the end of the settlement, a row of scattered houses along the ridge." She came there in 1878 at the age of seven from the San Justo Rancho in Monterey County. Sarah recalls daily life in town and at San Justo and neighboring ranches in the bygone era of the adobes. Exerting a strong pull on her imagination, as it will on the reader's, is the story of how her family drove sheep and cattle from Illinois to the Pacific Coast in the 1850s. The daughter of a pioneering woolgrower, Sarah Bixby Smith became a leading citizen of California. In her foreword to the Bison Book edition, Gloria Ricci Lothrop discusses, among other things, the value of "Adobe Days" in helping to fill in the "silent history" of women and children in the Old West.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: 3rd ed. rev. Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Zeitlin, 1931. With new foreword.

"A Bison book"--Spine.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0803291787

0803241771

OCLC:

15550742