California Coast Trails

One man, one horse, and the whole California coast. In 1911, Joseph Smeaton Chase rode from Mexico to Oregon along cliff paths and mission roads, sleeping under sycamores and writing down everything: the fog, the ranchos, the characters, the sea. You will discover a vanished California preserved in vivid, easy prose, equal parts adventure and elegy. A classic of American travel writing, complete and unhurried. Saddle up with the sample.