THRESHOLD REMARKS. 7 



History of Los Angeles County. By J. Albert "Wilson. Published by 

 Thompson & West. 1880. [This is altogether the best " County History" 

 yet gotten up here.] 



California. By Josiah Royce. Houghton, Miflin & Co., Boston. 1886. 

 [Partisan against Col. Fremont.] 



History of California. Two volumes. By Theodore H. Hittell. San 

 Francisco. 1885. [This is on the whole the fairest and best history of 

 the State yet published.] 



Tourists' Guide Book to Southern California. By G. Wharton James, 

 F. R. A. S. Baumgardt & Co., Los Angeles. 1895. [This work uses the 

 name South California instead of Southern California, all the way through 

 — a new feature which I heartily commend.] 



Board of Trade pamphlets. Different years. 



Bound volumes of the weekly Pasadena Union, 1884-85-86. 



Bound volumes of the Pasadena Daily Star. 



Stitched volumes of the Pasadena Standard. 



Record Books of the City Clerk. 



Record Books of the City Recorder. 



Record Books of the San Gabriel Orange Grove Association, the origi- 

 nal Pasadena colony, or "Indiana colony," as it was commonly called. 



Record Books of the Pasadena Land and Water Co. 



Special articles local to California, in leading magazines of both the 

 Atlantic and Pacific coast; bound volumes of the Overland Monthly, Atlantic 

 Monthly, Harper's Monthly, Popular Science Monthly, Illustrated Califor- 

 nian, the Century Magazine, and others of lesser note. 



Notes of a Military Reconnoissance," etc., by Major W. H. Emory, of 

 U. S. topographical engineers, 1846-47. Washington : 30th congress, ist 

 session. Senate. Executive document No. 7. [This gives maps, diagrams, 

 descriptions, etc., of three battles in California ; but I did not find this work 

 until Stephen Foster showed it to me, after my Chapter IV. was printed. 

 [Seepage 102 1^.] Maj. Emory says: "We saw the Mexicans place /^«r 

 pieces of artillery on the hill, so as to command the passage " [at San Gab- 

 riel river.] See forward, page 93. 



THE BICYCLE EPISODE. 

 In pursuance of my work I found it necessary to go many times to ex- 

 amine natural objects, to consult old settlers, to procure documents or books, 

 to authenticate localities by name, and for many points and particulars which 

 it was needful I should know from personal investigation and not merely 

 from hearsay, in order to write understandingly about them. I could not 

 afford to keep a horse for making such trips ; and walking proved very soon 

 that it was too slow and tiresome for me. I was past sixty years old, and had 

 never strode a bicycle in my life — but now I needed to learn the new trick. 



