Excerpt from El Estranjero: The Stranger; A Story of Southern California The scenes portrayed and the actions reflected in the following pages are in most instances true to the life of early days, representing, as they do, many Of the historical events which transpired in one Of the most picturesque Of the western settlements. This pueblo was situated at the foot Of the San Bernardino Range of mountains in Imperial county, an empire in itself, one of the proudest counties in the Golden State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.