Over 400 octavo pages. Cloth, $3.50. Morocco, $6.00.
Says the author; "I have made no effort to compile dry, consecutive details of contemporaneous history, but simply to sketch a picture, imperfect as it may be, of life in California as I found it, while yet in its primitive, pastoral solitude, in contrast with the populous and thriving civilization which I have seen grow up around me."
Capt. Swasey is believed to be the oldest continuous resident of San Francisco.
The book gives the biographies of over 60 pioneers who came to California before the discovery of gold; and also of over 20 of the "men of '49," whom the author terms "argonauts" in contradistinction to those who came to California before the discovery of gold.
