[16] “Pioneer Times in California.”
[17] Mr. Kipling, who visited California in the year 1898, speaks of “the remarkable beauty” of the women of San Francisco,—descendants in most cases of the Pioneers.
[18] The Reverend Walter Colton, “Three Years in California.”
[19] Just across the river, in the State of Illinois, is another Pike County, similar in soil and population; and this Illinois county was the scene of John Hay’s “Pike County Ballads.”
[20] Eliza W. Farnham, “California, Indoors and Out.”
[21] Bayard Taylor, “El Dorado.”
[22] Edwin Bryant, “California.”
[23] See Thornton’s “Oregon and California in 1848.”
[24] A Waif of the Plains.
[25] When the Waters Were Up at “Jules’.”