Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
[Illustration: MONUMENT TO JUNÍPERO SERRA IN GOLDEN GATE PARK.
“His memory still rests like a benediction over the noble State which he
rescued from savagery.”]
SPANISH AND INDIAN
PLACE NAMES OF
CALIFORNIA
THEIR MEANING AND THEIR ROMANCE
BY
NELLIE VAN DE GRIFT SANCHEZ
[Illustration]
A. M. ROBERTSON
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
MDCCCCXIV
COPYRIGHT, 1914
BY
A. M. ROBERTSON
[Illustration: Philopolis Press San Francisco]
TO MY SON
AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author wishes to express grateful appreciation of generous aid given
in the preparation of this book by Herbert E. Bolton, Ph.D., Professor of
American History in the University of California.
Acknowledgment is also due to Dr. A. L. Kroeber, Assistant Professor of
Anthropology, Dr. Harvey M. Hall, Assistant Professor of Economic Botany,
Dr. John C. Merriam, Professor of Palaeontology, Dr. Andrew C. Lawson,
Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, all of the University of California;
Mr. John Muir, Father Zephyrin Engelhardt, O.F.M., Mr. Charles B.
Turrill, of San Francisco, and many other persons in various parts of the
state for their courtesy in furnishing points of information.
For the sources used in the work, the author is indebted, in great
measure, to the Bancroft Library at the University of California, and to
the many writers from whose works quotations have been freely used.
“NONE CAN CARE FOR LITERATURE IN ITSELF WHO DOES NOT TAKE A
SPECIAL PLEASURE IN THE SOUND OF NAMES; AND THERE IS NO PART OF
THE WORLD WHERE NOMENCLATURE IS SO RICH, POETICAL, HUMOROUS,
AND PICTURESQUE AS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.... THE NAMES
OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES THEMSELVES FORM A CHORUS OF SWEET
AND MOST ROMANTIC VOCABLES; ... THERE ARE FEW POEMS WITH A
NOBLER MUSIC FOR THE EAR; A SONGFUL, TUNEFUL LAND; AND IF THE
NEW HOMER SHALL ARISE FROM THE WESTERN CONTINENT, HIS VERSE
WILL BE ENRICHED, HIS PAGES SING SPONTANEOUSLY, WITH THE NAMES
OF STATES AND CITIES THAT WOULD STRIKE THE FANCY IN A BUSINESS
CIRCULAR.”
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
[Illustration]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION 3