It might be Poindexter arriving by the more direct route from the steamboat that occasionally lay off the ancient embarcadero of the Los Cuervos Rancho.
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All you see before you is yours from the embarcadero to yonder Coast Range."
"On the Frontier"
Bret Harte
"It doesn't look pretty, perhaps," continued Poindexter, "but it's the richest land in the State, and the embarcadero will some day be a town.
"On the Frontier"
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