Nonfiction · 1883
The Silverado Squatters
The Silverado Squatters tells of the two months Robert Louis Stevenson and his new wife Fanny spent in the summer of 1880 camped in an abandoned mining bunkhouse on Mount Saint Helena in California's Napa Valley — part honeymoon, part attempt to recover Stevenson's fragile health in the mountain air, filled with sketches of the miners, settlers and vineyard owners of a Napa Valley still decades from its wine-country fame, and an early, admiring account of the California wine then just beginning to be taken seriously.
Robert Louis Stevenson published the book in 1883, drawn from the same trip that had also produced his earlier travel narrative Across the Plains; California, and Fanny, whom he'd married in San Francisco that May, remained central to the rest of his life and work.
Bibliomancer publishes the 1883 text exactly as Robert Louis Stevenson wrote it.
Contents
- Epigraph
- The Silverado Squatters
- Part I — In the Valley
- Chapter I — Calistoga
- Chapter II — The Petrified Forest
- Chapter III — Napa Wine
- Chapter IV — The Scot Abroad
- Part II — With the Children of Israel
- Chapter I — To Introduce Mr. Kelmar
- Chapter II — First Impressions of Silverado
- Chapter III — The Return
- The Act of Squatting
- The Hunter’s Family
- The Sea Fogs
- The Toll House
- A Starry Drive
- Episodes in the Story of a Mine
- Toils and Pleasures
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About the author
1850–1894 · Victorian
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.
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