A ward of the Golden Gate
(2016)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Interactive Media : Made available through hoopla, 2016
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781911535157 (electronic bk.) MWT11722013, 1911535153 (electronic bk.) 11722013
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

In San Francisco the rainy season had been making itself a reality to the wondering Eastern immigrant. There were short days of drifting clouds and flying sunshine, and long succeeding nights of incessant downpour, when the rain rattled on the thin shingles or drummed on the resounding zinc of pioneer roofs. The shifting sand-dunes on the outskirts were beaten motionless and sodden by the onslaught of consecutive storms; the southeast trades brought the saline breath of the outlying Pacific even to the busy haunts of Commercial and Kearney streets

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