Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tate, so that at no time in the year isSanta Barbara lonesome. Horseback-riding, surf-bathing, driving among thecanons and getting the views from the foothills, or merely dreaming away thehours in the calm enjoyment of the delicate atmosphere, the visitors experience nodifficulty in passing the time. Santa Barbara has a future as interesting as thepast has been. It is probably not destined to achieve great commercial import-ance. It does not expect to rival San Francisco, nor compete with Los Angelesfor the first place in the southern part of the State. Through its harbor, which isone of the most perfect on the coast, it will receive a steadily increasing quantityand variety of imports; and as the port of a rich and productive region, it musttransact a considerable amount of business. But the true future of Santa Barbaralies in the manifold advantages which it possesses over other places on this favoredcoast, as a place for homes and villas. Not only in the town itself but in the val-
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OLD MISSION CHURCH AT SANTA BARBARA. 192 TO THE GOLDEN GATE. 193 leys and among the foothills are many perfect sites, where, surrounded by a fewacres, which a little care will transform into a garden, the happy proprietor spendshis days in peace and calm contentment. The Old Mission. A visit to Santa Barbara is not complete without ameditative stroll through the old mission, the history of which is pleasantly givenby Mr. E. McD. Johnstone in his delightful book By Semi-Tropic Seas asfollows: This of Santa Barbara is the best preserved of all the old missions,and has had, perhaps, the most notable history of any. Its presidio, or militarygarrison, was founded by Father Junipero Serra, on April 29, 1782, but it was notuntil the 4th day of December, 17S6, on the celebration of the feast of Santa Bar-bara, virgin and martyr, that the cross was raised and the mission founded. A fewdays after, the Rev. Father Lasuen celebrated mass and preached from a hut orbooth made for the occasion. The

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