How California’s name came to be

• April
• 26

8:06 am General

“The name California is the invention of another Spanish fiction writer: one Ardonez de Montalvo, who wrote around 1510:

“At the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise. This island is inhabited by robust dark women of great strength and great warm hearts; when children are born the females are preserved but the males are killed at once, saving only those required to guard against depopulation…”

excerpt taken from~ Men To Match My Mountains, Chp.V Pg.13

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