History of California

by Helen Elliott Bandini

Preface
Chapter I. The Land and the Name
Chapter II. The Story of the Indians
Chapter III. "The Secret of the Strait"
Chapter IV. The Cross of Santa Fe
Chapter V. Pastoral Days
Chapter VI. The Footsteps of the Stranger
Chapter VII. At the Touch of King Midas
Chapter VIII. The Great Stampede
Chapter IX. The Birth of the Golden Baby
Chapter X. The Signal Gun and the Steel Trail
Chapter XI. That Which Followed After
Chapter XII. "The Groves Were God's First Temples"
Chapter XIII. To All that Sow the Time of Harvest Should be Given
Chapter XIV. The Golden Apples of the Hesperides
Chapter XV. California's other Contributions to the World's Bill of Fare
Chapter XVI. The Hidden Treasures of Mother Earth
Chapter XVII. From La Escuela of Spanish California to the Schools of the Twentieth Century
Chapter XVIII. Statistics

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CHAPTER VIII. GRECIAN PHILOSOPHY.
CHAPTER VII. ROMAN LITERATURE.
CHAPTER II. THE RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION
The Last Days of Absolute Monarchy - The French Revolution
CHAPTER XV. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, 1815.
CHAPTER IX. THE CHURCH IN IRELAND DURING THE REIGNS OF MARY AND ELIZABETH (1553-1603)
CHAPTER II. THE RELIGIOUS CHANGES UNDER HENRY VIII. AND EDWARD VI.
CHAPTER VII. HOW THE COLONIES WERE GOVERNED
CHAPTER VIII. SEVEN YEARS' WAR, 1756-1763 - ENGLAND's OVERWHELMING POWER AND CONQUESTS ON THE SEAS, IN NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, AND EAST AND WEST INDIES. SEA BATTLES: BYNG OFF MINORCA; HAWKE AND CONFLANS; POCOCK AND D'ACHE' IN EAST INDIES.
First War with China, and efforts to suppress the Slave-Trade - A.D. 1840.