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The squatter and the don : a novel descriptive of contemporary occurrences in California / by C. Loyal.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 6419
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, 1832-1895, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conflict of generations--Fiction.
- Conflict of generations.
- Mexicans--California--Fiction.
- Mexicans.
- Ethnic relations--Fiction.
- Ethnic relations.
- Land tenure--Fiction.
- Land tenure.
- Landowners--Fiction.
- Landowners.
- California--Fiction.
- California.
- Squatters--Fiction.
- Squatters.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Coleman(?), Edward, Mrs. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 421, [1] pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Samuel Carson & Co., publishers, 1885.
- Summary:
- "Problems of the land, squatter, and railroad interests in Alameda County, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego"--Baird & Greenwood.
- Notes:
- C. Loyal is a pseudonym of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton; see Baird & Greenwood.
- "This copy has the title-page with the pubolisher's name and pp. 365/366 is not a cancel, so 'Judge Lawlack" is used, it having been censored on the cancelled leaf in the other issue."--Bookseller's description.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has autograph ("Mrs Edward [Co]leman[?] Grass Valley"), possibly of Eliza Otis Coleman (née Richardson; 1863-1950), wife of Edward Coleman (1861-1932), in blue pencil on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: portion of pages 247-248 torn off with some loss of text; title leaf bound in verso first; intermittent staining of pages.
- Cited in:
- Baird & Greenwood. Annotated bibliography of California fiction, 1664-1970, 365
- Cowan & Cowan. Bibliography of the history of California, 1510-1930, II, p. 399
- OCLC:
- 1336862301
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