Romance and Drama in the Valley of Sunshine
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Excerpt from Romance and Drama in the Valley of Sunshine: Being a Story of Old Palmdale Ke Valley of SunsKine Part One %Any years ago, in the old Mormon settle 1 nient of San Bernardino, there lived a physician Dr. Wozencraft. He was known as a dreamer, even as, before him, Christopher Columbus was a dreamer. But for Dr. Wozencraft there was no Isabella; so he got no farther with his dream than in his minds eye to have pictured the chocolate waters of the Colorado river painting green the gray Colorado desert. People laughed at him and his dream until death ended both the dreamer and the unkind laughter and only a few of the old timers of San Bernardino and of Riverside, now remember the man and his mania. But when a generation of years had turned the good old Doctor into dust and his memory into mist, the new race produced new dreamers, and they did the very thing in which he failed to interest the men of his day they turned the chocolate waters of the Colorado river onto the gray Colorado desert until no longer it was a desert, but it became the green Imperial valley instead. The world knows the rest, but not many know of the dead dreamer and his disappointment and the romance of justice had been realized were the name, now Imperial, spelled Wozencraft. And this Imperial valley 13 years ago it was the scorn of the tenderfoot, the malediction of the prospector, and the doubt of the old timer. Then the waters were turned in from the Colorado river, and after a little while the government of the United States, in the person of men of book learning, condemned the Imperial valley project as an alkali delusion. The next year the government softened the condemnation; and within ten years afterwards the state of California annihilated it by establishing there a new county, that now has a population of 30, 000, and is one of the heaviest contributors to the commercial welfare of Los Angeles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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