MONUMENT TO JUNÍPERO SERRA IN GOLDEN GATE PARK.
“His memory still rests like a benediction over the noble Statewhich he rescued from savagery.”
SPANISH AND INDIAN
PLACE NAMES OF
CALIFORNIA
THEIR MEANING AND THEIR ROMANCE
BY
NELLIE VAN DE GRIFT SANCHEZ
A. M. ROBERTSON
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
MDCCCCXIV
COPYRIGHT, 1914
BY
A. M. ROBERTSON
TO MY SON
AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author wishes to express grateful appreciation ofgenerous aid given in the preparation of this book byHerbert E. Bolton, Ph.D., Professor of American Historyin the University of California.
Acknowledgment is also due to Dr. A. L. Kroeber,Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Harvey M. Hall,Assistant Professor of Economic Botany, Dr. John C.Merriam, Professor of Palaeontology, Dr. Andrew C.Lawson, Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, all of theUniversity of California; Mr. John Muir, Father ZephyrinEngelhardt, O.F.M., Mr. Charles B. Turrill, of SanFrancisco, and many other persons in various parts of thestate for their courtesy in furnishing points of information.
For the sources used in the work, the author is indebted,in great measure, to the Bancroft Library at theUniversity of California, and to the many writers fromwhose works quotations have been freely used.
“NONE CAN CARE FOR LITERATURE IN ITSELF WHODOES NOT TAKE A SPECIAL PLEASURE IN THE SOUND OFNAMES; AND THERE IS NO PART OF THE WORLD WHERENOMENCLATURE IS SO RICH, POETICAL, HUMOROUS, ANDPICTURESQUE AS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA....THE NAMES OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES THEMSELVESFORM A CHORUS OF SWEET AND MOST ROMANTIC VOCABLES;... THERE ARE FEW POEMS WITH A NOBLER MUSICFOR THE EAR; A SONGFUL, TUNEFUL LAND; AND IF THENEW HOMER SHALL ARISE FROM THE WESTERN CONTINENT,HIS VERSE WILL BE ENRICHED, HIS PAGES SING SPONTANEOUSLY,WITH THE NAMES OF STATES AND CITIESTHAT WOULD STRIKE THE FANCY IN A BUSINESS CIRCULAR.”
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Page | |
| CHAPTER I | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| California | 13 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| In and About San Diego | 21 |
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