portada Glimpses of Three Coasts (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Helen Hunt Jackson

Editorial

Createspace

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

398

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

24.6x18.9x2.1 cm

Peso

0.71 kg.

ISBN13

9781515064077

Categorías

Textos antiguos, clásicos y medievales

Glimpses of Three Coasts (en Inglés)

Helen Hunt Jackson (Autor) · Createspace · Tapa Blanda

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"[...] The history begins with the cattle interest; hardly an industry, perhaps, or at any rate an unindustrious one, but belonging in point of time at the head of the list of the ways and means by which money has been made in the country. It dates back to the old mission days; to the two hundred head of cattle which the wise Galvez brought, in 1769, for stocking the three missions projected in Upper California. From these had grown, in the sixty years of the friars' unhindered rule, herds, of which it is no exaggeration to say that they covered thousands of hills and were beyond counting. It is probable that even the outside estimates of their numbers were short of the truth. The cattle wealth, the reckless ruin of the secularization period, survived, and was the leading wealth of the country at the[...]."