Harris Newmark reached Los Angeles in 1853, by way of Nicaragua and San Francisco, when it was still a dusty pueblo around a plaza. His reminiscences, edited by his sons, run year by year through its lawyers and courts, merchants and shops, home life and characters, as the little town grows into a modern city.
An indispensable source on early Los Angeles, crowded with names, anecdotes and street-level detail. Download the free EPUB.