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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

Gold in the Sun 1900–1919

Dedication
An Introduction
The Town That Wanted To Grow Up And Be Something
Here Come The Cultists And The Health Seekers
Who Could Have Guessed These Stones Were Gems?
The River That Proved It Was Lord Of The Desert
The Auto Challenges The Train and Shapes The City
It Was Not Yet Too Late To Design a City - Or Was It?
Beauty Wins A Round In Parks And The Exposition
The Wobblies And A Story No One Likes To Remember
San Francisco Shows How Politics Should Be Played
A 'Magic City' Surprises Even Those Who Built It
The Rainmaker - And Who Caused The Big Flood?
The Military Appreciated What The Natives Did Not
Southern California And The Gold Nobody Noticed
Supplement: Pictorial Story On Spanish Colonial Architecture

 

Chronology
Mayors of San Diego
Governors of California
Population

First Printing of Gold in the Sun: 1965, Copyright © Copley Press

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