The Mentor: #121: Southern California the land of sunshine

Lummis, Charles F.

New York: The Mentor Assoc. 1916. 12p., 7x10 inches, b&w photo illustrations, supplementary reading list, open letter, very good periodical in worn, original decorated wraps. Serial No. 121, Volume 4 number 21, December 16, 1916.

Includes a poem"Just California" by John Stephen McGroarty. A travelogue of Southern California by way of boosting it as a utopia in the making. Lummis was one of the chief propagandists for the settlement of Los Angeles. Brief essays on the climate, the "oil wealth," beaches; the photos show, along with the picturesque missions, the palm trees and the ocean, a number of automobiles and broad empty streets.

Cat.No: 86564

Price: $15.00