The Herald's History of Los Angeles City

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By Charles Dwight
Willard

Published 1901
Kingsley-Barnes & Neuner
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365 pages

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CHAPTER PAGE I Sons of the Soil	9
yang, acorns, spaniards
n The Edge of the Spanish Empire	18
cabrillo, viscaino, sergas
How Governor Portola came to Los Angeles	38
portola, galvez, crespi
The Banner of the Virgin	48
portola, somera, monterey
The Pueblo Plan	57
bucareli, neve, presidios
How Governor De Neve came to Los Angeles	66
neve, croix, zuniga

VTII The Roster of	77
vanegas, zanja, marchessault
The Mission System	87
savages, civilize, neophytes
Eighteenth Century Los Angeles	97
arguello, comisionado, vanegas
In the Spanish Province	106
branciforte, fermin, romeu
Exit Spain	116
arrillaga, neophytes, iturbide
The Pueblo Begins to Grow	126
palomares, carillo, cota
The Epoch of Revolutions	140
alvarado, micheltorena, chico
The Ruin of the Missions	146
echeandia, figueroa, secularization
The Foreigner Arrives	159
wolfskill, mellus, furguson
Local Events of Mexican Rule	168
ayuntamiento, pena, reina
The Pastoral Age in California	179
californians, razon, gente
The Stars and Stripes	190
micheltorena, fremont, commodore
The Americans Enter Los Angeles	201
sloat, gillespie, stockton
The Last Revolution in Los Angeles	212
bandini, kearny, inocencia
Los Angeles Regained	223
kearny, abila, cahuenga
The Pueblo is made American	235
sindico, stevenson, guardhouse
California Enters the Union	247
califor, vara, wilmot
The City Takes Shape	261
cahuenga, buena, plaza
The Beginning of Things	268
geles, chinamen, nians
Between Old and New	289
goller, flouring, freighting
In War Times	299
betterments, ifornia, catalina
The Coming of the Railway	310
beaudry, downey, soledad
The Epoch of the Boom	322
townsites, boom, acre
The Reorganization	333
vandever, boom, comers
The Modern City	344
fermin, seawall, monica
Index	355
gallery, admirable, chamber

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Los Angeles - Page 313
Three hundred and fifty citizens of Los Angeles went up from the pueblo to meet fifty residents of San Francisco, who came down to celebrate the union ...
more pages: 128 174 205 273 300 315 338 351

San Pedro - Page 175
Don Abel Stearns built a large warehouse at San Pedro in the early thirties, and when his political enemies could find no other convenient method to ...
more pages: 10 160 193 211 315 338 351

Monterey - Page 192
The continuous strain under which the two countries rested is revealed in the incident of the raising of the American flag at Monterey by Commodore ...
more pages: 46 52 53 113 159 193 236

San Juan Capistrano - Page 125
Bouchard then came south, landing near Santa Barbara, where he sacked the Ortega ranch house, and at San Juan Capistrano, where he visited the mission ...
more pages: 63 88 120 131 167

Pasadena - Page 338
Louis capitalists, who built a system running from Pasadena and Glendale through the city to San Pedro, which they called the Terminal. ...
more pages: 47 220 318

Santa Monica - Page 314
Local capital was interested to some extent The line from Santa Monica was constructed in 1875, and a substantial wharf was built at its ocean ...
more pages: 318 349 350

San Diego - Page 41
He set out for the north in March of 1769, and arrived at San Diego in the middle of May. By this time the people from the ships had constructed a ...
more pages: 42 50 52 53 55 88 339

Purisima - Page 109
the padres as was De Neve, a fact which is well illustrated in the circumstances that attended the founding of Santa Barbara and Purisima missions. ...
more pages: 63 87 110 131

Santa Barbara - Page 46
a small detachment under the lead of a lieutenant named Ortega, afterwards the founder of the Ortega family of Santa Barbara, came in sight of the bay ...
more pages: 60 77 109 125 212 339 352

San Jose - Page 99
geles had received one emigrant from San Jose, a certain Sebastian Alvitre, who, for nearly twenty years, enjoyed the reputation of being the worst ...
more pages: 64 67 68 98 104 113 202

San Francisco - Page 313
Three hundred and fifty citizens of Los Angeles went up from the pueblo to meet fifty residents of San Francisco, who came down to celebrate the union ...
more pages: 24 46 88 273 312 315 324

La Paz - Page 20
A year later Cortes came up the gulf himself, and, landing at La Paz, formally took.
more pages: 25 39

San Luis Obispo - Page 300
Just before the war an effort was made to cut the state in two at the line north of San Luis Obispo and Kern counties, evidently with the design of ...
more pages: 60

Anaheim - Page 313
agreed that a branch line should be constructed to Anaheim. The matter was put to a vote, after a year's active discussion, in November, 1872, ...

Pomona - Page 313
San Francisco was than a little larger than Los Angeles is at present, while Los An-geles was about the size of Pomona. ...
more pages: 318

Salt Lake City - Page 338
In 1888 the people of Los Angeles became much elated at the prospect of securing a new transcontinental line to the east through Salt Lake City. ...
more pages: 314

San Bernardino - Page 312
to build down through the Soledad canyon into the city and out to the east to San Bernardino, to connect ultimately with the Texas Pacific at Yuma. ...

St. Louis - Page 338
The franchise for a road along the east bank was taken up by a party of St. Louis capitalists, who built a system running from Pasadena and Glendale ...
more pages: 286 316

Yuma - Page 324
when the Southern Pacific was com-pleted through to Yuma, where it met the Texas Pacific, Los Angeles had its second line to the east. ...
more pages: 311

Mesa - Page 98
These nine settlers were the original eleven, minus De Lara, Mesa and Quintero, expelled for general uselessness, and plus Sinova, the emigrant picked ...

Chicago - Page 347
At the Columbian exposition in Chicago in 1893, tne Midwinter fair in San Francisco in 1894, the Cotton expositon in Atlanta in 1896, ...
more pages: 77 258 286 i

San Antonio - Page 53
While Father Junipero was busy founding San Antonio, and advising with the new padres there, Somera and Cambon set out from San Diego on the 6th of ...

Vancouver - Page 50
The Russians were already working down from Alaska, and a little later the English made fur settlements around Vancouver. ...

Cedros - Page 22
When he passed Cedros island, which is about the middle of the peninsula, he entered upon a stretch of waters as full of strange and terrible ...
more pages: 40

London - Page 205
The hope was futile, for McNamara represented nothing but a firm of irresponsible London speculators, who wanted a land grant to serve as a claim ...
more pages: 9

Sinaloa - Page 70
Such were the privileges and the opportun-ities that Rivera was authorized to present to the people of Sonora and Sinaloa, along the west coast of ...

San Juan - Page 120
if it was against their will to work at Los Angeles, which it must have been assumed was the cause of their return to San Juan. ...

Long Beach - Page 305
The Cerritos ranch was sold to the Bixbys for $125000, 27000 acres, including the present site of Long Beach. Twenty-two lots, 50 feet each, ...

Atlanta - Page 347
At the Columbian exposition in Chicago in 1893, tne Midwinter fair in San Francisco in 1894, the Cotton expositon in Atlanta in 1896, ...

Sacramento - Page 254
of the Declaration of Independence and the firing on Fort Sumter—and that was the discovery of gold at Coloma, on the American river, near Sacramento. ...

New York - Page 295
Osborne. who came to Los Angeles from New York. He was presently succeeded in the business by John G. Downey, who afterwards became one of the ...
more pages: 297

Requena - Page 297
In 1856 the United States (not the mod-ern building) was constructed on Main and Requena streets. Shortly afterwards the Lafayette opened in a ...

Visalia - Page 311
Two exceptions to the rule were Bakersfield and Visalia, which have managed to hold their own in spite of the snub. ...

Bakersfield - Page 311
Two exceptions to the rule were Bakersfield and Visalia, which have managed to hold their own in spite of the snub. ...

New Orleans - Page 326
The display of Southern California oranges at the Cotton Exposition in New Orleans in 1884 took the premium over Florida fruit, ...

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas - Page 216
Kearny, who had left Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with 1600 men, and a full equipment of animals and supplies, in the month of June, 1846. ...

Boston - Page 77
their streets running to the cardinal points, the exceptions being those places—like Boston—that were never actually laid out, but that "just grew. ...

Pittsburg, Kansas - Page 286
however, it was no worse than has been seen since that period in various eastern cities, notably Cin-cinnati, Pittsburg, Kansas City and St. ...

Clearwater - Page 11
The people of Yang-na were probably on friendly terms with the people of the neigh-boring villages—at Pasadena, San Gabriel, Cahuenga and Clearwater. ...

Victorias - Page 169
There are plenty of Victorias in the country, but only one Los Angeles. The first American settlers had the habit of calling the place "Angeles"— ...

Rome - Page 28
It must be admitted that the title has not been misplaced, for no country on the globe has been more rigidly faithful to the church of Rome than Spain ...
more pages: 58 64

Santa Maria - Page 168
In 1827 Los Ange-les had a narrow escape from an official change of name, but not to Santa Maria, however. The Mexican authorities complained that the ...

Padua - Page 89
San An-tonio de Padua, for example, which, not more than ten years ago was a handsome, sub-stantial structure, having been preserved for church use up ...