Shot by an unknown tourist, this 1951 silent home movie shows California and Nevada landmarks. Title card: “Looking down over La Canada from the Flintridge Hills” (0:37). Snow-covered cars and houses (1:30). “Bennett Valley and Valley of the Moon near Santa Rosa” (2:25). London Ranch plaque (3:40). “A weekend in Death Valley climaxed by a trip to Scotty’s Castle in Grapevine Canyon” (4:12). Death Valley ‘49ers Gateway (4:22), where over 100 emigrants died in 1849. Furnace Creek Inn, a luxury Death Valley hotel (4:38). Ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada with its famous Bottle House (6:12). Telescope Peak, the highest point in the Panamint Range (7:30). Title card: “Ryan— formerly the scene of extensive operations by the Pacific Coast Borax Company” (7:57). Dante’s View, about 6000 feet above sea level (8:41). Snow-covered Charleston Mountains in Nevada (9:27). Zebriskie Point, overlooking the Badlands (10:06). “Reflections in bad water— from 279.6 feet below sea level to the top of Telescope Peak— 11045 feet above sea level” (10:50). Salt pool from Dante’s Point (11:32). Mountains along Artist Drive (12:11). Ubehebe Crater (12:48). Scotty’s Castle in Grapevine Canyon (13:05). A wooden borax wagon (14:42). Kings River in the High Sierra Mountains (14:48). Russian River from Monte Rio to Jenner (16:45). Armstrong Grove in the redwoods near Monte Rio (18:06). State Highway 49 sign (18:42). Mariposa and the ruins of Fremont’s store at Bear Valley (18:47). Gold Coin Club and Capitol Cafe (18:55). Harrison Gold Mine vault (20:03). Hangman’s tree and locomotive at Coulterville (20:10). Title cards: “Present day Chinese camp” (20:48); “Jamestown and on to Sonora” (21:10). Columbia State Park (21:40). Fallon House Theatre (21:47) and Wells Fargo Express (22:24). Native Sons of the Golden West Museum (22:30). The Stanislaus River at Parrot’s Ferry (22:38). Title cards: “Mokelumne Hill and looking down over Placerville formerly known as Old Hangtown” (23:05); “Marshall’s Statue (24:33), the museum, Wah Hop’s store and the tail race at Sutter’s Mill, where Marshall first discovered gold at Coloma— 1848” (24:15). Grass Valley and Nevada City (25:08). E&H Surplus and Nevada City Cleaners signs (25:22). “At Donner Summit, we get a good view of Donner Lake, the summit, and the railroad snow sheds” (25:48). Monument to the Donner party, a group of stranded 1846 American pioneers (26:34). Lake Tahoe near Meeks Bay and view of Emerald Bay (26:53). Aspen trees at Conway Summit (28:02). La Purisima Mission (28:12). Title card: “In May of 1951 we started another tour of California by looking over Yosemite Park” (28:35). View of the valley from Glacier Point (28:51). Ribbon Falls running down the side of El Capitan (31:14). Bridal Veil Falls; Yosemite Falls (31:42); Mirror Lake, near Half Dome (31:54). Hangman’s Tree (32:38). Title card: “From Oroville we travel the length of the Feather River Canyon” (32:47). Indian Creek bridge (33:35). Buck’s Lake power house (34:37). The Sacramento River near Corning (35:30). “A fishing episode on the Sacramento— stars Paul Martin and a 21 1/2-pound salmon” (35:40). “Mt. Lassen from Highway 99” (38:23); sportsmen’s trailer park on the Sacramento River (39:06). Trinity National Forest headquarters (39:57). Weaverville Main Street (40:32). Trinity alps from Backbone Ridge guard station (40:50). Dogwood blossoms (43:00). North fork of the Trinity River (43:27). Benbow Inn on the Eel River (44:14); redwood trees on Highway 101 (44:52). Ridgewood Ranch (45:23); Fort Ross State historic Monument (45:31). Title card: “The result of trying to bring a ship into San Francisco via Highway 101 from Stewart’s Point” (46:21); the Kenkoku Maru ship run aground. Clear Lake (47:51); Blue Lakes near Ukiah (48:22); Sonoma Mission (48:46). View overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge from Point Lobos (49:49). San Francisco’s Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park (50:20); bears at the San Francisco Zoo (50:39). View of San Francisco from Twin Peaks (51:25). Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen’s sloop, the “Gjora,” in Golden Gate Park (52:09). The port of Monterey (53:34), Pacific Building (54:20). The first brick house in California (54:44); California’s first theatre (54:57); Colton Hall, home of California’s first constitution (55:12); Cypress Point on the 17-Mile Drive (57:33); Point Lobos State Park (58:14).

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