"That is why, I suppose, the feel of the frontier and the sound of the sea are in my books."1
"[We also moved] to Claremont, just east of Los Angeles, to the foot of Mount Baldy--sagebrush country where descendants of the first Spanish settlers lived. And to Julian, an old gold-mining town southeast of Los Angeles on the Mexican border, in the heart of the Oriflamme Mountains, the ancestral home of the Diegueno Indians.
"That is why ... many of the people I have written about are Indians, Spaniards and Mexicans."2
"I was four years old and I had awakened out of a long sleep. The room was dark. The sea made faint sounds among the eaves, like mice stirring. From far off came the sound of waves breaking upon the beach. Though I listened, I heard nothing else.
"Lying there in my small bed, in the deep night, it suddenly came to me that the house was deserted, that I was alone. Quickly I slid to the floor and groped along the hall to my mother's room. I felt the bed. It was empty.
"At that instant I heard from a distance the sound of music.
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