A Ward of the Golden Gate - Bret Harte - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781981196975 - May 15, 2018
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A Ward of the Golden Gate

Bret Harte

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A Ward of the Golden Gate

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; the low-lying Mission road was a quagmire; along the City Front, despite of piles and pier and wharf, the Pacific tides still asserted themselves in mud and ooze as far as Sansome Street; the wooden sidewalks of Clay and Montgomery streets were mere floating bridges or buoyant pontoons superposed on elastic bogs; Battery Street was the Silurian beach of that early period on which tin cans, packing-boxes, freight, household furniture, and even the runaway crews of deserted ships had been cast away.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 15, 2018
ISBN13 9781981196975
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 124
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 7 mm   ·   176 g
Language English  

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