The health seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900 / by John E. Baur ; introduction to the second edition by Robert G. Frank Jr.

San Marino, Calif. : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, [2010]

xliii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.

Originally published: San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, c1959.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building a health legend -- Advertising the resorts -- Los Angeles, capital of the "Sanitarium Belt" -- Town building -- Medicine and pseudo-medicine -- Faith and charity -- Mineral waters -- Prescription : agriculture -- Those who came -- The role of government -- Climax and anticlimax.