Here is about the upper limit of the dwarf form of the goldcup oak, —eight thousand feet above sea-level, —reaching about two thousand feet higher than the California black oak (Quercus Californica).
I turned the Chrysler into this and crawled carefully around huge bare granite rocks and past a little waterfall and through a maze of black oak trees and ironwood and manzanita and silence.
The rugs were old, and of the true faded beauty; the etchings, nearly all of them proofs printed by the artist, made a good show with broad white margins and black frames, and there was no spurious black oak.