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Title: Overland Tales

Author: Josephine Clifford

Release Date: March 11, 2013 [eBook #42308]

Language: English

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Overland Tales.

Overland Tales
BY JOSEPHINE CLIFFORD.

SAN FRANCISCO:
A. L. BANCROFT & CO.
1877.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by
JOSEPHINE CLIFFORD,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

COLLINS, PRINTER.

Dedicated

TO MY KINDEST

AND

MOST CONSTANT READER,

MOTHER.

PREFACE.

In the book I now lay before the reader, I have collected a series of stories and sketches of journeyings through California, Arizona, and New Mexico. There is little of fiction, even in the stories; and the sketches, I flatter myself, are true to life—as I saw it, at the time I visited the places.

A number of these stories first appeared in the Overland Monthly, but some of them are new, and have never been published. I bespeak for them all the attentive perusal and undivided interest of the kind reader.

The Author.

CONTENTS.