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ness The Spring, the Fig-trees and the Live Oaks A Rodeo
Robber Bands Nearest Justice 150 Miles Away! Sale of
Sheep in San Francisco Mexicans Who Panned for Gold
Before the Forty-niners Lincoln and Beale Anecdotes
"Monarch of all he Surveys" Charles Nordhoff s Visit to
Tejon Description of Life there His Praise of what Gen
eral Beale Had Accomplished Kit Carson s Ride by Joaquin
Miller Beale Falls Foul of the Poet Sad Scenes on the
Rancho . . . .- . . . . . . 272
CHAPTER XVI LAST YEARS
General Beale Purchases the Decatur House Its Distinguished
Occupants and Ghost Story Beale s Political Activity His
Untiring Efforts to Help the Negro Appointed by Grant
Minister to Austria Newspaper Comment in California A
Bill of Sale from Slavery Days Awkward Diplomatic Sit
uation The Emperor and Count Andrassy Friendship of
Grant and Beale Their Correspondence Published Arthur
Fails to Appoint Beale Secretary of the Navy Grant s Re
sentment Beale Ends the Grant-Blaine Feud Last Days
Rancho.......... 291
Beale s Death
Scenes in Washington and on the Tejon
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . 307