[76] Delano, “Life on the Plains.”
[77] “The Virginia Editor is a young, unmarried, intemperate, pugnacious, gambling gentleman.”—George W. Bagby, “The Old Virginia Gentlemen and Other Sketches.”
[78] They were the Reverend Walter Colton, Chaplain in the United States Navy, and Alcalde, as already mentioned, and Dr. Robert Semple, a well-known Pioneer politician.
[79] “Men and Memories of San Francisco,” by Barry and Patten.
[80] “California: its Characteristics and Prospects.”
[81] See also supra, p. [169].
[82] It must be admitted that the ministers were placed in a difficult situation, being obliged to cope with the hardy, humorous materialism of Pioneer life. The following dialogue is an authentic illustration:—
“Mr. Small, do not you believe in the overruling Providence of God?”
“Which God?”
“There is but one God.”