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Richard Savage
The Little Lady of Lagunitas
A Franco-Californian Romance
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066214388
Table of Contents
BOOK I. — THE LAST OF THE DONS BY THE BLUE PACIFIC.
CHAPTER I. — UNDER THE MEXICAN EAGLE.—EXIT THE FOREIGNER.—MONTEREY, 1840.
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.
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.
BOOK IV. — A LOST HEIRESS.—MILLIONS AT STAKE.
CHAPTER XIII. — MOUNT DAVIDSON'S MAGIC MILLIONS.—A CALIFORNIA PLUTOCRACY.—THE PRICE OF A CRIME.
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.
BOOK V. — REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.
CHAPTER XVIII. — JOE WOODS SURPRISES A LADY.—LOVE'S GOLDEN NETS.
CHAPTER XIX. — LOVERS ONCE.—STRANGERS NOW.—FACE TO FACE.
INTRODUCTION.
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 adventurers. Mad riot, wildest excess, marked these earlier days.
High above the meaner knights of the "revolver and bowie knife," greater than card sharper, fugitive bravo, or sly wanton, giant schemers appeared, who throw, yet, dark shadows over the records of this State.
These daring conspirators dominated legislature and forum, public office and society.
They spoiled the Mexican, robbed the Indian, and paved the way for a "Lone Star Republic," or the delivering of the great treasure fields of the West to the leaders of Secession.
How their designs on this grand domain failed; what might have been, had the South been more active in its hour of primary victory and seized the Golden West, these pages may show.
The golden days of the "stars and bars" were lost by the activity of the Unionists and the mistaken policy at Richmond.