Harry Carr Los Angeles City of Dreams (Illustrated by E.H. Suydam), D. Appleton-Century Co.: NY, 1935, 402 pp.
Chapter XXIII Los Angeles Is Somewhere Else
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"During the forties and fifties the Russian otter hunters came into these waters and brutally slaughtered the Catalina natives, coming ashore to massacre the men and steal the women. Most of those who escaped were brought to the mainland by the mission fathers to have their souls saved.
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