The Silverado Squatters

In 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson followed Frances Osbourne to her home in San Francisco, where she agreed to his proposal of marriage. The couple decided to honeymoon in an abandoned shack on the Silverado mine site in California’s developing wine country. Stevenson’s account is a delightful travel story that provides a rare and vivid look at the flora and fauna, and above all the people, of an extraordinary period in the American West.