YOSEMITE CALIFORNIA, by Carleton Emmons Watkins, 1878

"President Teddy Roosevelt visited California's Yosemite Valley in 1903... artist Carleton Emmons Watkins was there 25 years earlier, in 1878."

FIRST AMERICANS IN LOS ANGELES, by Margaret Romer, 1924

"On Christmas Day in the year 1828 the American brig 'Danube' was wrecked on the rocks at San Pedro. The crew were rescued and a few of them remained as settlers. Among these was John Groningen, a German. The Spanish people could not twist their tongues around the name so they called him Juan Domingo."