Sunset . o pass thisalong to you—another page from theStory of Yesterday. As one of our older Sunset readersputs it, There is a great deal of histori-cal highjacking about pioneer that reason we feel it our pleasanteditorial duty to bring you, in thesepages, occasional pictures and para-graphs reminiscent of the West thatis gone; to call your attention to themost authentic of our western books,at the same time exposing others thatare not entirely accurate. One new western book that immedi-ately inspires confidence is MotherLode, by Louis J. Stellman (HarrWagner Pub. Co., $). Here
Sunset . o pass thisalong to you—another page from theStory of Yesterday. As one of our older Sunset readersputs it, There is a great deal of histori-cal highjacking about pioneer that reason we feel it our pleasanteditorial duty to bring you, in thesepages, occasional pictures and para-graphs reminiscent of the West thatis gone; to call your attention to themost authentic of our western books,at the same time exposing others thatare not entirely accurate. One new western book that immedi-ately inspires confidence is MotherLode, by Louis J. Stellman (HarrWagner Pub. Co., $). Here is awriter who learned early in his news-paper experience that there is no alibifor inaccuracy. For 30 years Mr. Stell-man has studied and painstakingly re-ported the history of California. InMother Lode you have not only hisbest book, but a dependable referenceto take along with you when you visitthis romantic section of Sunset A Cioldtn Highway, by (another good book of Gold Rush. days), there is a map in the back, mark-ing the trail for those who wish to fol-low this golden highway in modernmanner. Our recent reading has included alsothe delightful book, The Winter Di-versions of a Gardener, by Richard-son Wright—a book about gardeningand not about the West. There is in thebook, however, a western reference thatillustrates this point of historical inac-curacy. In reporting old gardens (whichMr. Wright does with true feeling) herefers to Narcissa Whitman as the brideof Dr. McLaughlin of the HudsonsBay Company at Fort Vancouver on theColumbia River in 1825. There arethree things wrong with Mr. Wrightsstatement: First, he has misspelled name. Second, NarcissaWhitman, as the name might imply,was the wife of Dr. Marcus Whitman—not of McLoughlin. Third, NarcissaWhitman did not come to Oregon un-til 1836, 11 years after 1825. It is truethat she visited the gardens at Fort Van-couver and that she wrote about themin her diary, but otherwise
Size: 3227px × 774px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidsunset74jans, bookyear1898
