The Silverado Squatters (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Life in its shadow goes rustically forward. Bucks, and bears, and rattlesnakes, and former mining operations, are the staple of men's talk. Agriculture has only begun to mount above the valley. And though in a few years from now the whole district may be smiling with farms, passing trains shaking the mountain to the heart, many-windowed hotels lighting up the night like factories, and a prosperous city occupying the site of sleepy Calistoga; yet in the meantime, around the foot of that moun tain the silence of nature reigns in a great measure unbroken, and the people of hill and valley go sauntering about their business as in the days before the flood.

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THE
SILVERADO SQUATTERS.
The scene of this little book is on a high mountain. There are, indeed, many higher ; there are many of a nobler outline. It is no place of pilgrimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont Blanc of one section of the Californian Coast Eange, none of its near neighbours rising to one-half its altitude. It looks down on much green, intricate country. It feeds in the spring-time many splashing brooks. Prom its summit

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; In the Valley :; PAQB; I Calistoga 13; II The Petrified Forest 24; III Napa Wine 34; IV The Scot Abroad 48; With the Children of Israel :; I To Introduce Mr Kelmar 59; II First Impressions of Silverado 68; III The Return 92; The Act of Squatting 103; The Hunter's Family 127; The Sea Fogs 153; The Toll House ¡71; A Starry Drive 185; Episodes in the Story of a Mine 197; Toils and Pleasures 223

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