[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’.”