A history of the various elements that went into making Old California, by one of its master writers. Chapters include "Pioneer Transportation in America," "The Virginal Mule-Tamer," "Oranges Three-Hundred Years Ago," "Indelible Spain," and others. Charles Lummis (1859-1928) was an author, journalist, editor, photographer, Los Angeles city librarian, adventurer, close friend and Harvard classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, and champion of the American Indian. He walked from Cincinnati to Los Angeles in the winter of 1884-1885 to accept a job on the then three-year old Los Angeles Times.