Zeph: A Posthumous Story

by Helen Hunt Jackson

Excerpt from Zeph: A Posthumous Story

Then, one would say it must have been nearer twenty, SO marvellously had the colony grown and developed. It was now what is called a thriving place of some six thousand peo ple, - all active, all making money, none rich, none very poor, few Of any pretence to what is called in Older places social position, but all or nearly all of fair intelligence and good business education in their respective callings.

67 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

People know American writer Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson for Ramona (1884), a romantic novel concerning the injustices that Native Americans suffered.

This author, an activist for rights, wrote best about the ill treatment in southern California.

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