The Silverado Squatters

Description

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, the Oakland woman with whom he had fallen in love in France. The two were married in the spring of 1880 and honeymooned in a cabin at Silverado, a mining ghost town on Mt. St. Helena. In the next fourteen years, Mrs. Stevenson nursed her husband while he produced the verses, stories, and books of travel and adventure that made him famous. Silverado (1888) tells the story of the newlywed Stevensons' trip to Silverado. Stevenson writes of their journey from San Francisco up the Napa Valley to Calistoga and then up the mountain to their goal. He describes their neighbors, and recounts tales of the town in its glory days as a silver mining camp.

Description

IT is difficult for a European to imagine Calistoga, the whole place is so new, and of such an accidental pattern; the very name, I hear, was invented at a supper-party by the man who found the springs.

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Other Editions

• The Silverado SquatterseBookeBooksLib2005-01-01
• The Silverado squattersRoberts Brothers1884-01-01
• The Silverado squattersJ.W. Lovell company1888-01-01
• The Silverado squatters.Scribner's Sons1895-01-01
• The Silverado squattersChatto & Windus1895-01-01
• The Silverado squattersScribner1899-01-01