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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 6: White conquerors. (search)
ome money and more experience. I stayed in San Francisco five or six weeks, looking round, and feeling for an opening, but the sharpers of that city would have peeled and picked me to the bone. I came down south, and finding two or three ranches in this valley built by English fellows, I thought the place would suit me, and I stayed. How long ago? Five or six years or so; just when Salinas was a sprinkle of log huts. And you have now a good run? My run extends from the Salinas River right across the Galivano range, to San Benito River. Why, that is an estate as big as a Scotch county? Yes, the dear old dad will stare when I go home some day, and tell him what his scapegrace son has been doing for the last twelve years. Ha! ha! the dear old dad will stare when I tell him he sent me out with sixpence, and I ask him to come and see what I have bought with his sixpence-a little place in California, about the size of County Linlithgow! The lands all round Sa