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Author: Antonio Maria Osio Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 0299149749 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 401
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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.
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.
Author: Steven W. Hackel Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520289048 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 366
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"A set of probing and fascinating essays by leading scholars, Alta California illuminates the lives of missionaries and Indians in colonial California. With unprecedented depth and precision, the essays explore the interplay of race and culture among the diverse peoples adapting to the radical transformations of a borderland uneasily shared by natives and colonizers."—Alan Taylor, author of The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution "In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the missions of California and the communities that sprang up around them constituted a unique laboratory where ethnic, imperial, and national identities were molded and transformed. A group of distinguished scholars examine these identities through a variety of sources ranging from mission records and mitochondrial DNA to the historical memory of California's early history."—Andrés Reséndez, author of Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850
Author: Leonard Pitt Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520219588 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 362
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Charts the social and ethnic history of Spanish-speaking California and the displacement of California's Mexican ranching elite following the Mexican War and the gold rush of 1849.
Author: Robert Cotton Publisher: America Star Books ISBN: 9781630007591 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 390
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Mexican California is a story that takes place in Alta California, a northern Mexican province during the Mexican-American war of 1846-1848. President James K. Polk, who won the presidential election on a platform of Manifest Destiny following the annexation of Texas as the 28th state in 1845, sent American forces into the territory under the leadership of General Stephan Kearney and John C. Fremont as Commodore Robert Stockton assaulted Alta California from the sea. The story unfolds with two neighboring families, the Russells and Gradillas, sharing labor and fortune near the pueblo of San Diego de Alcala. The love of young Jesse Russell and Elena Gradillas blossoms amid the increasing violence of gamberros-bad guys or rogues, jinetes de la noche-night riders, who were killing, raping, burning and pillaging Mexican families to gain their lands for wealthy land grabbers. The Lancers are involved with skirmishes between Mexican and American forces as they continue to pursue the gamberros. They finally clash resulting in dead and wounded on both sides and the Lancers return to the pueblo de los Angelos where they are nursed back to health and provided R. & R. by the Sisters of the church, Nuestra Senora la Reina, and residents of the community. After the fall of Mexico City and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago, Alfredo Sarmiento, sensing the time is ripe, arranges the assassination of the two ranchers, Joe Russell and Miguel Gradillas, in order to seize their land and coerce Elena into marriage against her will. Jesse and the Lancers return as the ceremony begins.
Author: Antonio Maria Osio
Author: Antonio Maria Osio
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Author: California Mission Studies Association. Meeting