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·LITERARY CALIFORNIA ·

POETRY PROSE and

PORTRAITS

Gathered by

ELLA STERLING MIGHELS

Author of the "Story of the Files," "Full Glory of
Diantha," "Little Mountain Princess," "Society and
Babe Robinson," "Fairy Tale of the White Man."

Westward the star of empire takes its way;
The first four acts already past,

A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offering is the last.

-Berkeley.

HARR WAGNER PUBLISHING CO.

San Francisco, California

1918

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Copyright 1918

Harr Wagner Publishing Co.

Class of 1900

CONTENTS

FRONTISPIECE

PORTRAIT OF THE GATHERER..

THE CHILDREN'S STATUE OF THE PIONEER MOTHER..

DEDICATION

CALIFORNIA "49"

INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD

A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE HAMLIN FITCH..........CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY

A LITERARY LIGHT OF THE EARLY DAYS.

A TRIBUTE TO MARSHALL.

WHAT IS EDUCATION?.

MARY V. TINGLEY LAWRENCE

.N. J. BIRD

.MRS. M. M. BAY 50

THE LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE OF THE EARLY DAYS...

ONE OF THE TRADITIONS TO BE HANDED Down...... THE GATHERER

.S. HARTMAN

BRET HARTE 52

WILLIAM H. MILLS 53

THE GATHERER

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.ADELAIDE J. HOLMES Bausman

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SHORT HISTORIES OF THINGS.

OLD BALLAD OF THE PIONEERS-HOME AGAIN............

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