1. The Three Brothers, Yosemite Valley _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE 2. San Diego, looking across the Bay toward Point Loma 9 3. Redlands, looking toward San Bernardino Range 16 4. A Eucalyptus Grove 33 5. Glendale, Valley of the San Gabriel 40 6. A Cañon in the Sierra Madre 49 7. The Cemetery, Santa Barbara Mission 56 8. Sycamores, a Coast Range Cañon 59 9. Tall Chaparral, Santa Cruz 62 10. Looking down on Monterey and the Bay 65 11. Pescadero, a Chinese Fishing Village, Monterey Bay 72 12. Cypress Point, near Carmel 75 13. Santa Cruz Mountains, the Coast Range 78 14. The Patio, Old Spanish Residence 88 15. The Golden Gate and Black Point, from Hyde Street, San Francisco. (Site of the Panama Exposition, 1915) 107 16. Tamalpias 110 17. Mill Valley, and Backwater of San Francisco Bay 113 18. Waiting for Duck--Los Baños 120 19. Mirror Lake, Yosemite 129 20. Among the Redwoods of the Great Twin Valleys 131 21. Clear Lake, Lake County 134 22. Castle Crag, Rattlesnake Cañon 136 23. McCloud River, Upper Sacramento Valley 139 24. Donner Lake, on the old Emigrant Trail 142 25. Laurel Lake, Upper Sacramento 145 26. Yosemite Falls 152 27. Blue Lake, Lake County 155 28. Lake Tahoe, the High Sierras 158 29. Mount Shasta--Sierra Glow 161 30. Valley of the Yosemite 163 31. The Half Dome, Yosemite 166 32. Shasta--Snow Clouds 168 _Sketch Map at end of Volume._ I THE SPARROW-HAWK'S OWN For a graphic and memorable report of the contours of any country, see always the aboriginal account of its making. That will give you the lie of the land as no geographer could sketch it forth for you. California was made by Padahoon the Sparrow-Hawk and the Little Duck, who brooded on the face of the waters in the Beginning of Things.