Author: Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299149749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.
The History of Alta California
Author: Antonio Maria Osio
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299149749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299149749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Antonio María Osio’s La Historia de Alta California was the first written history of upper California during the era of Mexican rule, and this is its first complete English translation. A Mexican-Californian, government official, and the landowner of Angel Island and Point Reyes, Osio writes colorfully of life in old Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and gives a first-hand account of the political intrigues of the 1830s that led to the appointment of Juan Bautista Alvarado as governor. Osio wrote his History in 1851, conveying with immediacy and detail the years of the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846–1848 and the social upheaval that followed. As he witnesses California’s territorial transition from Mexico to the United States, he recalls with pride the achievements of Mexican California in earlier decades and writes critically of the onset of U.S. influence and imperialism. Unable to endure life as foreigners in their home of twenty-seven years, Osio and his family left Alta California for Mexico in 1852. Osio’s account predates by a quarter century the better-known reminiscences of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Juan Bautista Alvarado and the memoirs of Californios dictated to Hubert Howe Bancroft’s staff in the 1870s. Editors Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz have provided an accurate, complete translation of Osio’s original manuscript, and their helpful introduction and notes offer further details of Osio’s life and of society in Alta California.
Rancho Life in Alta California
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher:
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Category : Adobe houses
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Adobe houses
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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A British Ranchero in Old California
Author: Sheldon Glenn Jackson
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Ontiveros Adobe
Author: Jay D. Frierman
Publisher:
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Category : Ontiveros Adobe Site (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Publisher:
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Category : Ontiveros Adobe Site (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Family and Community Life in Mexican Alta California
Author: Rodolfo Larios
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Life in California
Author: Alfred Robinson
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Life in California During a Residence of Several Years in that Territory
Author: Alfred Robinson
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Some Old Ranchos and Adobes
Author: Philip Scott Rush
Publisher:
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Category : Adobe houses
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Historical sketches on California's ranchos, chiefly those of San Diego, Orange and Riverside Counties. Addenda contains partial list of governors of California, Baja California, and the Northern District of Baja California.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adobe houses
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Historical sketches on California's ranchos, chiefly those of San Diego, Orange and Riverside Counties. Addenda contains partial list of governors of California, Baja California, and the Northern District of Baja California.
The Bojorques of Alta California and the Land Grant of Rancho Laguna de San Antonio
Author: Roger Rehm
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Ms. (photocopy) collection of drawings of people, scenes, buildings, etc. connected with the Bojorques family or the history of the Rancho.
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Ms. (photocopy) collection of drawings of people, scenes, buildings, etc. connected with the Bojorques family or the history of the Rancho.
Life in California
Author: Alfred Robinson
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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