The Silverado Squatters
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The Silverado Squatters
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
|---|---|
| Published | 1883 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Robert Louis Stevenson’s short memoir of 1880, when, newly married and broke, he spent two months camped in a derelict bunkhouse at an abandoned silver mine above Calistoga — the squatting, the neighbours, and the young Napa wine industry, which he judged still prospecting for its best ground. A sharp outsider’s account of a raw American place in the year it was becoming something else. |
The Silverado Squatters
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published on Substack in December 2025, in the Ages 13–99+ band under Autobiography — the slightest of those entries, and the only one set in the American West.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the list this came from.
- Robert Louis Stevenson — the author.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.