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History of San Diego by Richard Pourade
The Explorers | Time of the Bells | The Silver Dons | The Glory Years
Gold in the Sun | The Rising Tide | City of the Dream

The Glory Years
1865–1899

Background
It All Began with Father Horton
Move Over, San Francisco...
The Train that Never Came
The Mountain that Spouted Gold
The Panic that Broke the Bubble
The Great Tidelands Robbery
The Day the Town Went Wild
Why Not Sell the Climate?
The Big Gun Fight at Campo
The Discontented Seventies
The Train that Finally Came
A Boom Nobody Would Believe
When the Games Ran All Night
Our 'Innocent' Lambs Are Sheared
The Town that Wouldn't Give Up

The Glory Years
Chronology
Mayors
Governors
County Towns 1888
County Post Offices 1895
The Glory Years was scanned, converted to digital text and proofread by Bill Parsons.
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First printing of The Glory Years: November 1964, Copyright © Copley Press

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Digitizing the Pourade Series


The Explorers / Time of the Bells / The Silver Dons / The Glory Years
Gold in the Sun / The Rising Tide / City of the Dream

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