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

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