SAN DIEGO DAILY UNION, California, Nov. 12, 1871  

* Early Anaheim description 
* Rare old West publication

Very early from San Diego--a volume 2 issue--when the population was just 2300, with a nice engraving of the harbor in the masthead. 
The front page has a wonderful and very descriptive article headed: "ANAHEIM" with subheads: "On the Road From Gallatin--The 17 Mile House--Sheep Ranges--History of Anaheim--What Has Been Done There--Description of the Town and Its Prominent Places--The Wine Interest--General Business".
This very detailed article takes two-thirds of the front page.
Four pages, 12 by 18 inches, printed on high-quality newsprint, some very light staining to the front page, good condition.

Background: This 1871 issue of the San Diego Daily Union is an museum-grade artifact from the "Wild West" era of Southern California, printed when San Diego was a fledgling settlement of just 2,300 souls. It represents a rare Volume 2 specimen, featuring the iconic, intricately engraved masthead of the San Diego harbor—a bold piece of 19th-century branding used to lure settlers to the Pacific. The true "crown jewel" of this edition is the massive, two-thirds-of-the-front-page exposé on Anaheim; written over a decade before the "Great Boom of the Eighties," it provides a vivid, firsthand account of the legendary German wine colony at its absolute zenith, detailing the vanished stagecoach stops like the 17 Mile House and the "lost" town of Gallatin. For a collector, this is more than just paper; it is a primary-source time capsule capturing the exact moment the pastoral sheep ranges of the Southland began their transformation into an agricultural empire, making it an essential cornerstone for any serious collection of California history or viticulture lore.