Research Catalog

Title

Outpost of empire : the story of the founding of San Francisco / by Herbert Eugene Bolton.

Author

Bolton, Herbert Eugene, 1870-1953.

Publication

New York : Knopf, 1931.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bolton, Herbert Eugene, 1870-1953.

Description

xxi, 334, xvii pages, 55 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : facsimile, maps, portrait; 25 cm

Subject

• Anza, Juan Bautista de, 1735-1788
• Anza, Juan Bautista de, 1735-1788
• Travel
• Historia Da America
• San Francisco (Calif.) > History
• California > Description and travel
• California
• California > San Francisco

Genre/Form

• Biography
• collective biographies.
• Biographies.
• History.

Note

• Published in 1930 as vol. 1 of his Anza's California expeditions.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. The setting for the drama -- The empire -- Fringes of empire -- pt. 2. Opening a land route to California -- New california -- Expansion -- The need of transportation -- Anza's proposal -- Deliberations in mexico and madrid -- Getting ready -- In kino's foosteps -- Through pápago land -- The camino del diablo -- The meeting with chief palma -- The crossing -- Down the colorado -- Yumas and cajuenches -- The battle with the sand dunes -- Dancing on the rim of the desert -- The sand dunes circumvented -- Along the base of the sierras -- The roayl pass of san carlos -- Victory and short rations -- Garcés on the back track -- Anza and palóu see visions -- Straightened trails -- Up the gila and home -- Rewards -- pt. 3. The San Francisco Colony -- A colony for the san francisco bay -- Plans outlined -- Details perfected -- All sorts of advice -- Shoes and hair ribbons -- The colony assembled -- Pack saddles -- The order of march -- The casa grande de moctezuma -- The gila pimas -- Opas and cocomaricopas -- Guests of palma -- Again at santa olaya -- Keepers of the gate -- Over the desert -- Christmas in a canyon -- Rabbi, quis peccavit? -- Down the sunset slope -- At sam gabriel -- The san diego uprising -- Moraga chases deserters -- The canoe builders of the channel -- Simile est regnum -- First through the golden gate -- The harbor of harbors -- The tall redwood and the timid black angels -- The rio grande de san francisco -- The mountain that played the joke -- Parting tears -- Opéra bouffe -- A lone watch on the colorado -- Garcés's peregrinations -- Founding san francisco -- pt. 4. Anza and Palma in Mexico. -- Ferry maids and cosmetics -- A left-handed adiós -- The sermon that was never delivered -- Garcés returns to civilization -- The news back home -- Palma before the cathedral altar -- Epilogue

LCCN

31028220

OCLC

• ocm01819848
• 1819848
• SCSB-594524

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library