Book Description

Excerpt from A Pastoral Prince: The History and Reminiscences of J. W. CooperThis little volume is sent out into the world already over burdened with books - not as an aspirant for literary honors, but simply as the unpretentious record of a plain business man, who came to California in 1850, assisted in driving the first band of sheep across the plains from the Missouri River in 1851, had his full experience as a miner and teamster in the northern portion of our State, and in 1863 settled in the upper part of Santa Barbara County, where he engaged in the business of sheep-raising.At that time there was no American family in the Lompoc Valley, nor, indeed, within a large radius around. The place was the abode of various species of wild animals, which made incessant warfare on the flocks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.