The Silverado Squatters

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The book places its scene on a high mountain, while acknowledging that many mountains are higher and many have a nobler outline. The description of Napa Valley places Calistoga at the railroad's terminus, where travellers going farther must cross the mountain spurs by stage. The account of Calistoga describes a wide street with bright, clean, low houses, occasional verandahs and horse-posts, and townsfolk lounging along it.

The account of a night's lodging describes rough bunks filled with hay and faint starshine entering through an open door and window. The narrator describes rattlesnakes buzzing among the bushes and a snake habitually occupying the wood-pile, sometimes raising its head when firewood was collected.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).