About this book
The essayist explores American ideals of independence and self-reliance by probing her own life and those of her relatives, discussing how the character of California's settlers created the state as it exists today.
- American National characteristics
- History
- In literature
- Social conditions
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- National characteristics, American.
- National characteristics, american
- California, history
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