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Title: Californian trails, intimate guide to the old missions; the story of the California missions
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Hall, Trowbridge
Subjects: Spanish mission buildings -- California California -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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peerfrom out the latticed doors no longer wear the mantillathat added such interest to the ugliest face and madea Madonna out of every pretty one; but instead only thedusty motor bonnet covered with fluttering veils. The earliest hotel registers have been carefully pre-served, and they bear the historic names of many acelebrity from both the Spanish and later Mexicanregimes. There is something rather sad in this con-sciousness of having fallen from high estate and beingobliged to bolster up ones pride by talking of what usedto be. Nearby is the Castro House, even more attractive,withdrawn as it is behind its line of trees. Here theRose of the Rancho, the beautiful daughter of thehouse, used to dance the Bamba, that most difficult ofSpanish dances, liked above all by Senorita Castro, whowith a clever flirting of her silken shawl could easilyhint at the handsome roundings of her naked arms anddraw admiration to her tiny feet. Here it was whenCommander Sloat made his memorable landing at
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SAN JUAN HAUTISTA MISSION CALIFORNIAN TRAILS, INTIMATE GUIDE TO THE OLD MISSIONS 181Monterey, raising the Stars and Stripes over the CustomHouse, signalHzIng the passing of CaHfornia from Mexicanrule. Here meetings were held with General Castroand excited speeches were made advocating revolutionary-methods that brought for the f rst time the war-like fifeand drumming to the peaceful life of the inhabitants ofthe old mission town. At nightfall the loiterers still leisurely stroll aboutthe plaza to be stared at—and then in turn to sit beneaththe locust boughs to stare. It gives a feeling of peace, this old Spanisb-Mexxantown. And it makes a fitting home for the Mission ofSan Juan Bautista. SAN JUAN BAUTISTA When one pauses long enough to remember that theword mission comes from the Latin wz^o, meaningI send, San Juan Bautista—St. John the Baptist—ispeculiarly fitting as a mission nam.e. Yet San Juan isthe fifteenth pearl of the mission chaplet, not havingbeen founded until June 24

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