A Westward Ford Tour Across Borderlands
A travelogue details a Ford journey westward with encounters at the Texas border and a near clash with a Mexican customs officer. The writer describes being inspected, facing a required border walk, and a body search while noting they concealed a pistol. The trip returns via the Old Camino Real past historic Spanish Missions along the coast.
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Texas Ranger
United States
Mexico
San Diego
Los Angeles
California Westward Journey Through Missions and Industry
A travelogue describes following the old mission trail from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond, noting Ramona's Wedding Place and palm trees. It mentions Universal City, cactus experiments near Burbank, and Bakersfield oil fields with tall derricks, cost figures, and scale.
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San Diego
Ramona
U. S
California
Los Angeles
Yosemite Park
Sunset Boulevard
Universal City
Southland
Bank
Burbank
Acre
San Gabriel Range
Fernando
Bouquet Canyon
Tehachapi
Bakersfield
California Exposition notes and Golden State tours
A travelogue recounts cistern filter benefits, oil field activity near Bakersfield, and trips through Visalia Tulare Fresno Madera Merced Stockton Oakland to San Francisco. It describes Yosemite Park Big Trees Mariposa Grove and a visit to the 1899 Exposition including Iowa building, Ford assembly demonstration, The Zone attractions, and battleship tours aboard Missouri South Dakota Ohio and Oregon.
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Yosemite Park
Yosemite Valley
Rolfe
Yosemite
San Diego
Iowa
Henry Mord
Ford
Yellowstone Park
Uncle Sam
Missouri
South Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
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J. H. Lighter
Marion Bruce
Independent
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Ioe
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Yhone
John J
Visalia
Hanford
Tulare
Fresno
Great Fruit District
Old Sol
Madera
America
Xéeprewileck
John Frost
Kentucky
C. A. Grant & Son
First National Bank
Rolfe, Iowa
MSA
W. S. McEwen
Robert Bruce
James Bruce
Joseph McEwen
Ans’t
D. D. McEwen
Asn’t
Board OF Directors
J. B. Kent
Cealrwizn
Robert Bruce James Bruce
W. 8S
McEwen
the State Savings Bank
T. Olson
the Updike Grain Co
H. A. Stelter
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