The Silverado Squatters
California, description and travel
Ethnic groups
Mines and mineral resources
Printing
Voyages and travels
Specimens
Travel
Description and travel
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, the Oakland woman with whom he had fallen in love in France. The two were married in the spring of 1880 and honeymooned in a cabin at Silverado, a mining ghost town on Mt. St. Helena. In the …
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