Name/Title
DONS OF THE OLD PUEBLOEntry/Object ID
95.20.1.4Description
Book: "The Dons Of The Old Pueblo" by Percival J. Cooney, (Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1914). The grey fabric hardcover has the title and author imprinted in gold ink and an illustration of a mission bell tower on the front cover and the spine. White paper with black ink. The text of 439 pages has a table of contents, a colored frontispiece illustration and one ink line map of routes traveled by Fremont and Stockton in the Los Angeles area. Overall appearance and condition of the book is good. There are acid burns to front and back endpapers. Historical novel about California in the 1840s and 1850s. "Christmas Greeting from Mr. & Mrs. Geo P Mckay/Oceanside/Dec 25th 1914"Lexicon
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Documentary Artifact, Books, Rand McNally and Company, Literature, American