In The Footprints Of The Padres

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Travel & Geography, Early Modern, Modern (19th C)

Authors: Charles Warren Stoddard In Year : 1912

Book Language: English

Audiobook: In The Footprints Of The Padres

Introduction And Introductory Poem
Old Days In El Dorado - 1. "Strange Countries for to See"
Old Days In El Dorado - 2. Crossing the Isthmus
Old Days In El Dorado - 3. Along the Pacific Shore
Old Days In El Dorado - 4. In the Wake of Drake
Old Days In El Dorado - 5. Atop o' Telegraph Hill
Old Days In El Dorado - 6. Pavement Pictures
Old Days In El Dorado - 7. A Boy's Outing
Old Days In El Dorado - 8. The Mission Dolores
Old Days In El Dorado - 9. Social San Francisco
Old Days In El Dorado - 10. Happy Valley
Old Days In El Dorado - 11. The Vigilance Committee
Old Days In El Dorado - 12. The Survivor's Story
A Bit of Old China
With the Egg-Pickers of the Farallones
A Memory of Monterey
In a Californian Bungalow
Primeval California
Inland Yachting
In Yosemite Shadows
An Affair of the Misty City - 1. What the Moon Shone on
An Affair of the Misty City - 2. What the Sun Shone on
An Affair of the Misty City - 3. Balm of Hurt Wounds
An Affair of the Misty City - 4. By the World Forgot

The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This third enlarged edition (1912) of his book more about California in general, in historia, and in memoria rather than her missions contains essays not included in the previous editions. “Charles Warren Stoddard was possessed of unique literary gifts that were all his own. These gifts shine out in the pages of this book. Here we find that mustang humor of his forever kicking its silver heels with the most upsetting suddenness into the honeyed sweetness of his flowing poetry. Here, too, we find that gift of word-painting which makes all his writings a brilliant gallery of rich-hued and soft-lighted wonder…. But no, the old California that Stoddard loved lives on, and will, because he caught and preserved its spirit and its coloring, its light and life and music. As the redwood thicket holds the sunlight, so do Stoddard's words keep bright and living, though viewed through a mist of tears, the California of other days.” ( Book Introduction and David Wales)