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The Silverado Squatters (1883) is a travel memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrift (and her son Lloyd Osbourne) to Napa Valley, California, in 1880.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson
- 1883
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- Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson
- 1883
Stevenson devotes much of Silverado Squatters to describing the beautiful landscape of the Napa Valley region. He is fascinated by the sea fogs that blot out the country. He also describes the flora and fauna, in particular the surprising abundance of rattlesnakes.
The Silverado Squatters explores the story of Stevenson and his new bride staying in the dumped housing of an old mine, the Silverado, without any legal claim. The writer presented an account of the honeymoon that this weird but loving couple spent in Silverado. This book is a travelogue of Robert Louis Stevenson, who spent a year in California ...
Silverado (1888) tells the story of the newlywed Stevensons' trip to Silverado. Stevenson writes of their journey from San Francisco up the Napa Valley to Calistoga and then up the mountain to their goal. He describes their neighbors, and recounts tales of the town in its glory days as a silver mining camp.
30. Jan. 2003 · Applewood Books, Jan 30, 2003 - History - 124 pages. Robert Louis Stevenson's unconventional 1880 honeymoon in an abandoned silver mining camp on the shoulder of Mount St. Helena provides the...
