California a Guide to the Golden State...US History Publishers, 1947 |
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The WPA Guide to California: The Golden State Federal Writers' Project Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2013 |
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Sivu 41 - Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons.
Sivu 54 - Husband and wife were both packing up; the blacksmith dropped his hammer, the carpenter his plane, the mason his trowel, the farmer his sickle, the baker his loaf, and the tapster his bottle. All were off for the mines, some on horses, some on carts, and some on crutches; and one went in a litter.
Sivu 58 - We propose to wrest the government from the hands of the rich, and place it in those of the people, where it properly belongs.