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Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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Along an avenue of stately poplars planted by Lucky Baldwin.
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The Builders 539 usual talent and ability, and these qualitiesof his have preserved it intact with its im-posing array of belated industries and ac-tivities in an age in whose social economyit can find no place. Just as he is a relicof another age in the expansion of thisnation, so his ranch harks farther back intoa more remote era and affords a vanishingglimpse of the life which was before theStars and Stripes were flown over this vastterritory to the west of the Rockies, andsouth of the area first explored and claimedby the Hudson Bay Companys pioneerswho invaded the Pacific Slope from thenorth. Not far from Santa Anita ranch is theold Mission of San Gabriel, whose life wasco-existent with that of these Spanishgrants and ranchers. The gray bell-tower,the massive adobe walls, and the quietgardens where once walked the black-robedpadres, and where their Indian convertstoiled, have been preserved to lend a littletouch of old-world atmosphere to the land-scape of to-day. They will be ke

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