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Sixty Years in Southern California

by Harris Newmark

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  1. 1Sixty Years in Southern California
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Foreword
  4. 4Preface
  5. 5Epigraph — Chapter I — Childhood and Youth 1834-1853
  6. 6Chapter II — Westward, Ho! 1853
  7. 7Chapter III — New York — Nicaragua — The Golden Gate 1853
  8. 8Chapter IV — First Adventures in Los Angeles 1853
  9. 9Chapter V — Lawyers and Courts 1853
  10. 10Chapter VI — Merchants and Shops 1853
  11. 11Chapter VII — In and Near the Old Pueblo 1853
  12. 12Chapter VIII — Round About the Plaza 1853-1854
  13. 13Chapter IX — Familiar Home-Scenes 1854
  14. 14Chapter X — Early Social Life 1854
  15. 15Chapter XI — The Rush for Gold 1855
  16. 16Chapter XII — The Great Horse Race 1855
  17. 17Chapter XIII — Princely Rancho Domains 1855
  18. 18Chapter XIV — Orchards and Vineyards 1856
  19. 19Chapter XV — Sheriff Barton and the Bandidos 1857
  20. 20Chapter XVI — Marriage — The Butterfield Stages 1858
  21. 21Chapter XVII — Admission to Citizenship 1859
  22. 22Chapter XVIII — First Experience With the Telegraph 1860
  23. 23Chapter XIX — Steam-Wagon — Odd Characters 1860
  24. 24Chapter XX — The Rumblings of War 1861
  25. 25Chapter XXI — Hancock — Lady Franklin — The Deluge 1861
  26. 26Chapter XXII — Droughts — The Ada Hancock Disaster 1862-1863
  27. 27Chapter XXIII — Assassination of Lincoln 1864-1865
  28. 28Chapter XXIV — H. Newmark & Co — Carlisle-King Duel 1865-1866
  29. 29Chapter XXV — Removal to New York, and Return 1867-1868
  30. 30Chapter XXVI — The Cerro Gordo Mines 1869
  31. 31Chapter XXVII — Coming of the Iron Horse 1869
  32. 32Chapter XXVIII — The Last of the Vigilantes 1870
  33. 33Chapter XXIX — The Chinese Massacre 1871
  34. 34Chapter XXX — The Wool Craze 1872-1873
  35. 35Chapter XXXI — The End of Vasquez 1874
  36. 36Chapter XXXII — The Santa Anita Rancho 1875
  37. 37Chapter XXXIII — Los Angeles & Independence Railroad 1876
  38. 38Chapter XXXIV — The Southern Pacific 1876
  39. 39Chapter XXXV — The Revival of the Southland 1877-1880
  40. 40Chapter XXXVI — Centenary of the City — Electric Light 1881-1884
  41. 41Chapter XXXVII — Repetto and the Lawyers 1885-1887
  42. 42Chapter XXXVIII — The Great Boom 1887
  43. 43Chapter XXXIX — Proposed State Division 1888-1891
  44. 44Chapter XL — The First Fiestas 1892-1897
  45. 45Chapter XLI — The Southwest Archæological Society 1898-1905
  46. 46Chapter XLII — The San Francisco Earthquake 1906-1910
  47. 47Chapter XLIII — Retrospection 1910-1913

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