
YERMAH THE DORADO The Story of a Lost Race
FOREWORD
TO GOLDEN GATE PARK
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO THE CITY OF TLAMCO—ITS TEMPLES AND MARKETPLACES
CHAPTER THREE THE VIRGINS OF THE SUN AND THE VOICE OF TLAMCO
CHAPTER FOUR DISPATCHING RUNNERS TO THE YO-SEMITE
CHAPTER FIVE THE TEMPLE OF LOVE IN THE LAND OF FIRE
CHAPTER SIX THE AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE THEIR SEVERAL DIFFERENCES
CHAPTER SEVEN KEŒCIA VISITS THE ENCHANTED GARDENS
Yermah, a striking figure freshly escaped from the legendary city of Atlantis, rides out at dawn across the rolling grasses of a forgotten valley. Accompanied by his loyal horse Cibolo and the silent, leaping ocelot Oghi, he feels the wind’s exhilaration as he ventures beyond the towering temples of Tlamco, a vanished Llama metropolis hidden beneath the modern hills of what will one day be San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The narrative paints a vivid picture of an ancient civilization whose architecture once mirrored the heavens, and whose secrets linger in the very contours of the landscape.
Through lyrical prose, the story invites listeners to wander the border between myth and history, where the scent of dewy mornings and the rustle of wild oats stir the imagination. As Yermah explores this liminal world, the tale hints at deeper mysteries of a lost race, offering a gentle meditation on memory, place, and the timeless pull of adventure.
Language
en
Duration
~11 hours (638K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: A. Harriman Co., 1897,copyright 1913.
Credits
Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2022-05-17
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1859–1946
A pioneering California journalist, she moved from newspaper work into fiction and nonfiction that captured the culture, landscapes, and ambitions of the American West. She is best remembered today for "Yermah the Dorado," an unusual early speculative novel set in a lost ancient civilization on the site of future San Francisco.
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