Excerpt from America Kelsey: Romance of the Great San Joaquin Valley This is a fictional story of life in the great San Joaquin valley based on actual historical facts. The heroine is America Kelsey, the first white girl to live in the section of the state of California now known as San Joaquin county. The names in most instances are those of people who actually lived there during the strenuous days depicted. The Indian tribes, history tells us, were as described. 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.