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Fairy Tales from Gold Lands

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By May Wentworth
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A collection of short tales intended for children that transplant Christmas legends and folkloric romances to California's landscapes, combining retellings of nativity-associated lore, Spanish and Mexican local legends, and sentimental scenes of childhood. Stories range from a tender origin tale linking saintly gift-giving to Santa Claus, to romantic and supernatural episodes set near missions and mining camps, portrayals of eccentric local figures, and dramatic frontier sketches such as discoveries in desert valleys. Narrative styles alternate between moralizing Christmas vignettes, romanticized sketches of regional life, and fanciful short stories, aiming to entertain young readers with romance, pathos, and regional color.

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Title: Fairy Tales from Gold Lands

Author: May Wentworth

Release date: December 10, 2017 [eBook #56155]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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The Moorish Pearls.  p. 31.

FAIRY TALES
FROM
GOLD LANDS.

BY MAY WENTWORTH.

List to these legends quaint and old,
Tales of the marvelous land of gold,
Rich in its mines of shining ore,
Rich in romance and mystic lore;
List to these tales, they come onto thee,
From over the waters—the boundless sea.

NEW YORK:
A. ROMAN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
SAN FRANCISCO:
417 & 419 MONTGOMERY STREET.
1868.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867,
BY A. ROMAN & COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.