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California Coast Trails: a Horseback Ride from Mexico to Oregon
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republished 1987 by the Palm Springs Public Library
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1060:(March 1952). "I Well Remember J. Smeaton Chase".
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188:. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1911. p. 354.
956:"CLP | Radio | Scripts | Chase"
139:Cone-bearing Trees of the California Mountains
841:Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915
808:"Author and Artist Seek Material for Booklet"
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1252:: The Shady Myrick Research Project.
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845:. Oxford University Press. pp.
655:California Padres and Their Missions
597:Smeaton Chase, J. (March 25, 1906).
203:Hotchkiss, C. W. (1911). "Review of
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1309:Works by or about J. Smeaton Chase
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880:at www.ventanawild.org
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