Front matter
Reading edition
To the courtesy of the editors of the “Argonaut,” “Out West,” “Criterion,” “Arena” and “Munsey’s”—in which publications many of these sketches have already seen print—is due their reappearance in more permanent form.
“The boy swayed backward—backward.”—Page 10
The Loom of the Desert
by Idah Meacham Strobridge
LOS ANGELES MCMVII
Copyright, 1907, by Idah Meacham Strobridge Printed by the Baumgardt Publishing Company Los Angeles, California
Of this autographed edition of “The Loom of the Desert,” one thousand copies were made; this one being number 351
Idah M. Strobridge
MARRIED: In Newark, New Jersey, Thursday, evening, June the Second, 1852, Phebe Amelia Craiger of Newark, to George Washington Meacham of California.
To these—my dearest; the FATHER and MOTHER who are my comrades still, I dedicate these stories of a land where we were pioneers.
