From Improvement Era, 1912.

From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1984.

From The Wasp, 1902.

From Los Angeles Graphic, 1913.

From Ranch of a Thousand Horns by Jean Bothwell and Phyllis Sowers.

A map of California "going Scientology."  From Ability, 1963.

From The Wasp, 1902.

From The Film Daily, 1925.

A map of Spanish ranchos in southern California.  The endpapers from Santa Monica College's 1933 yearbook.

From The Wasp, 1902.

From Watson's Magazine, 1906.

From California Sunshine by Lillian Hinman Shuey, 1888.

From Hartnell College's 1949 yearbook.

We're often asked, "is it teepee or tepee?"  You'll see tepee everywhere, but "popularity is only of temporary moment ... a vulgar struggling for supremacy" (Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, 1849).  Indeed, California's Wigwam Motel (on both the historic registry and alongside the ghostly vestiges of Route 66) spells it teepee.  That's surely definitive.  For further proof, we offer our own graphical evidence (heehee).

A lemon comet, as seen from Villa Park, California.

Santa Barbara, California, 1913.

"Camp Curry's Fire Fall," date uncertain.

"In Winter Dress."  Blue Jay, California.  Date unknown.

"Wellingtonia or mammoth tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum) towering above surrounding forest and person at its base."  Coloured lithograph after W. P. Blake, c. 1857.