King City, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Plan of Southern Part of the City of King-szé (or Hang-chau), with the Palace of the Sung Emperors."

"it is possible that Murray is right in supposing the place intended in these to be really King-tê chên in Kiang-si, the great seat of the manufacture of genuine porcelain"

"And this is about the way the Salinas Valley was when my grandfather brought his wife and settled in the foothills to the east of King City."

"in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded."

"It was a whole clot of Hamiltons growing up on the ranch to the east of King City."

"One morning she complained of feeling ill and stayed in her room in the King City hotel while Adam drove into the country."

"Olive did marry her young man and did move, first to Paso Robles, then to King City, and finally to Salinas."

"In a shed, covered with tarpaulins, lay the crated heavy furniture sent from San Francisco and carted out from King City."

"“I thought I’d ask George to come back. He doesn’t like a clerk’s job even if it is in King City.”"

"Liza awakened him and looked at his hand before she even glanced at the babies. While she did well the things he had done in a lumbering, masculine way, she gave him his orders and packed him off. He was to get up this instant, saddle Doxology, and ride straight to King City. No matter what time it was, he must wake up that good-for-nothing doctor and get his hand treated."

"Horace Quinn was the new deputy sheriff appointed to look after things around the King City district."

"I notice you changed your name. I want you to keep your new name. I guess you made up someplace you came from—well, that’s where you came from. And your reason—that’s when you’re maybe drunk—you keep your reason about two thousand miles away from King City."

"In King City, Dr. Tilson felt him over. The doctor grew more testy with his overworked years."

"Tom brought Olive’s letter from King City, and because he knew what it contained he waited until he caught Samuel alone before he gave it to him."

"I’m from near King City," Adam said."

"On the train back to King City from his trip to Salinas, Adam Trask was in a cloud of vague forms and sounds and colors."

"One week after the lesson a Ford bumped up the main street of King City and pulled to a shuddering stop in front of the post office."

"“I’ll leave it at the stable in King City. I’m nervous about driving the Ford alone.”"

"Just some men. In the post office at King City. They didn’t think I could hear. But I got good ears."

"Tom Hamilton labored like a giant... He went to King City and studied a flush toilet and then built one of craftily bent tin and carved wood."

"Things do not change with a change of scene. In Salinas, Cal had no more friends than he had had in King City."

"Will drove a big Winton now, with a hood as long as a coffin and a powerful, panting mutter in its bowels. He drove south from King City over the county road, through the gathering forces of spring, and the meadowlarks flew ahead, bubbling melody from the fence wires."

"Hick came in from King City. Just sold his crop. Bought out the house."