Stories of California when Spain and Mexico governed

California's Beginnings

      This children's reader has nearly all of the stories that serious students of California history should know.  The events in this book, about which children read, are factual.  Most histories of California contain very sketchy information about the exciting days when Spain and Mexico ruled California.  A child you know can read in this book about the Russian Nobleman who fell in love with the San Francisco Comandante's daugher, about the African, Indian and Spanish settlers of the little pubelo, "Our Lady, Queen of Angels," (Los Angeles) and about Richard Dana who had spent two years before the mast, among many exciting stories.