A Souvenir Of California: state map with the missions and a poem by Bret Harte

Front:
A SOUVENIR TGALIFORNIA Bells of the Bast,whose long forgatten music Still fills the wide expanse, Tingeing the sober twilight of the Present With the color of tSonoma 1823 San Rafaef 1817 San francisco-1776 romance, Mission San Jose-1797 Santa Clara1777tSan Jose de Guadalupe1797 Santa Cruz 1794 SanJuan Bautista1797 Carmel by the Sea-770Monterey-1770 t Soledad-1791 San Anlonio-1771 t San Miguel1797 tSan Luis Obispo 1772 La Purisima Concepcion-1787 San Buena Ventura-1782 San Fernando-1797 Santa Barbara-1786 Los Angeles-1822ttSan Gabriel-1771 SanJuan Capistrano-1776 San Luis Rey-1798 San Diego-1769 I hear your call, and see the sun On rock and wave and sand, As down the coast the Mission voices, blending. Girdle the heathen land. descending Borne on the swell of your long waves I touch the farther Past I see the dying glow of Spanish glory The sunset dream and last ! receding. Bret Harte.

Back:
COPYRIGHT 1915. REV. JOSEPH P. MCQUAIDE, Ph. D. PUBLISHED BY H. S. CROCKER CO.