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California Mining Town Newspapers, 1850-1880 (1954) (112 pages)

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A Note On The Author ORN in Alabama, Helen S. Giffen became a “native” Californian at the age of one year, when her parents moved to the Los Angeles area. Her interest in the history of early California began when, as a small girl, she explored the Mission San Gabriel, even falling into the old wall of cactus surrounding the mission orchard, thereby receiving a baptism of thorns. Her youthful curiosity developed into the mature interest of the historian, tempered with a knowledge that many historians lack: that the things of the past impose influences on the present far beyond our conscious recognition, Her study of California and Southwest history was intensified by association with the Southwest Museum, where she was first librarian of the Munk Library of Arizoniana. This period of librarianship was to have a lasting influence, and has kept her in the field of historical research. After her marriage Mrs. Giffen, in company with her husband, undertook a survey of the extant adobe houses Vil