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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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ve winter homesin Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Diego, Cor-onado, Riverside, Redlands, Santa Cruz,San Jose, Sausalito, and a hundred townsall the way to San Francisco and beyond.Many others are on a voyage of discovery,to try out the rumors and compare thecountry to Italy, while the greater num-ber are there because, winter and summer,California is to them, a great and wonder-ful playground, a national park affording a remarkable variety of interesting recre-ations, due to the fact that winter in Cal-ifornia in the lowlands, means the seasonof wild flowers. The writer of these lines was lured toCalifornia nearly twenty-five years ago,and in this paper proposes to answer thequestion, why it is worth while to see thecountry from Siskiyou to San Diego andfrom the Sierras to the sea. The averageCalifornia real estate man has little ideaof the modesty of his ancestors who wereoriginally attracted by the beauty ofthings and the almost perfect climate.To-day the visible charms of the region 535
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Along the American Riviera 537 have all been exploited or tested, and hehas claims for California that create pro-found astonishment when heard; but per-haps the strangest feature is that in mostcases they are susceptible of proof. In aword, the California hustler of to-daybrazenly challenges you to mention some-thing desirable that he cannot produce outof hand. His motto seems to be, If youdo not see what you want ask for it, andit will be forthcoming. It must be con-fessed that the chances are that he willsucceed in satisfying the skeptic if he is ina fairly receptive frame of mind, and hisclaims are certainly extraordinary. The Californian claims the greatest val-ley in the world, or the most beautiful inthe Yosemite; the finest trout streams,the deepest and highest lakes, the mostpicturesque national parks, and last andby no means least, the finest climate, ofall kinds and variety. If you say theclimate is too sun-shiny, that there istoo much pleasant weather, he will quotethe fog

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