Knibbs, Henry Herbert: Overland Red. V1. 18 Dec 2009
 

Knibbs, Henry Herbert, 1874-1945, wrote 13 novels and six books of poems.Rembered most for his Western Poetry.

Excerpt
Through the San Fernando Valley, toward the hills of Calabasas runs that old road, El Camino Real of the early Mission days.
And now replicas of old Mission bells, each suspended in solitary dignity from a rusted iron rod, mark intervals along the dusty way, once a narrow trail worn by the patient feet of that gentle and great padre, Junípero Serra,—a trail from the San Gabriel Valley to the shores of Monterey. A narrow trail then, but, even then, to him it was broad in its potential significance of the dawn of Grace upon the mountain shores of Heaven's lost garden, California.