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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
29. Jan. 2013 · There were four of us squatters—myself and my wife, the King and Queen of Silverado; Sam, the Crown Prince; and Chuchu, the Grand Duke. Chuchu, a setter crossed with spaniel, was the most unsuited for a rough life. He had been nurtured tenderly in the society of ladies; his heart was large and soft; he regarded the sofa-cushion as ...
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.
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- Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson
- 1883
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.
The Silverado squatters, Summary. 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.
23. Sept. 2008 · The Silverado Squatters : Robert Louis Stevenson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Robert Louis Stevenson. Publication date. 1883. Publisher. Chatto and Windus. Collection. europeanlibraries. Book from the collections of. Oxford University. Language. English.
