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Alta California
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Author : Nick Neely
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2020-06-09
Alta California written by Nick Neely and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-09 with History categories.
This national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650–mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco—sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyon’s That Wild Country. In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. Despite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespí, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portolá expedition—nearly 250 years later. Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neely’s adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. The result is a collage of historical and contemporary California, of lyricism and pedestrian serendipity, and of the biggest issues facing California today—water, agriculture, oil and gas, immigration, and development—all of it one step at a time. “Rich in little–known history . . . Up the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coasts, then inland into the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay. Somewhere along here, the owl moons and woodpeckers do something you might not have thought possible in 2019: they make you fall, or refall, in love with California, ungrudgingly, wildfires and insane housing prices and all . . . What a journey, you think. What a state." —San Francisco Chronicle
The History Of Alta California
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Author : Antonio Maria Osio
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1996-05-15
The History Of Alta California written by Antonio Maria Osio and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-15 with History categories.
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.
Alta California
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Author : Steven W. Hackel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-11-16
Alta California written by Steven W. Hackel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-16 with History categories.
"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
The Land Known As Alta California
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Author : Regina V. Phelan
language : en
Publisher: california history
Release Date : 1997
The Land Known As Alta California written by Regina V. Phelan and has been published by california history this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
California Through Russian Eyes 1806 1848
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Author : James R. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2013-10-23
California Through Russian Eyes 1806 1848 written by James R. Gibson and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with History categories.
In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collection of Russian accounts of Alta California, many of them translated here into English from Russian for the first time, presents richly detailed impressions by visiting Russian mariners, scientists, and Russian-American Company officials regarding the environment, people, economy, and politics of the province. Gathered from Russian archival collections and obscure journals, these testimonies represent a major contribution to the little-known history of Russian America. Well educated and curious, the visiting Russians were acute observers, generous in their appreciation of Hispanic hospitality but outspoken in their criticisms of all they found backward or abhorrent. In the various reports and reminiscences contained within this volume, they make astute observations of both Hispanic and Native inhabitants, describing the Catholic missions with their devout friars and neophyte workers; the corruptible Franciscan missionaries; the sorry plight of mission Indians; the Californios themselves, whose religion, language, dwellings, cuisine, dress, and pastimes were novel to the Russians; the economic and social changes in Alta California following Mexican independence; and the schemes of American traders and settlers to draw the province into the United States. Amplified by James R. Gibson’s informative annotations, and featuring a gallery of elegant color illustrations, this unique volume casts new light on the history of Spanish and Mexican California.
Gateway To Alta California
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Author : Harry W. Crosby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Gateway To Alta California written by Harry W. Crosby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.
Alta California
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Author : Lynn Elliott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-12
Alta California written by Lynn Elliott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with categories.
Set in the 18th Century, Alta California tells the story of Paco Palido, a young man, half-indigenous half-Spanish, caught between two worlds. As a mission soldier employed by Padre Junipero Serro, Paco is privy to the confrontation between the army, led by Captain Felipe de Neve, and the church, each believing in their vision for the future of California Indians following Spain's imminent loss of Alta California. Already conflicted, a personal crisis stirs within Paco's soul after a confrontation with the Chumas Indians of Santa Barbara. It is from this moment on that two young women come to occupy Paco's mind: one woman is a submissive, domesticated baptized Indian; and the other woman is, Ifapi, a "wild" Chumash Indian and member of a warring tribe steadfastly refusing Christianization. Meeting Ifapi and her tribe creates the ultimate spiritual crisis for Paco Palido. His life will never be the same again.
Spanish Alta California
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Author : Alberta Johnston Denis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Spanish Alta California written by Alberta Johnston Denis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with History categories.
The Alta California Supply Ships 1773 76
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Author : Charles Edward Chapman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
The Alta California Supply Ships 1773 76 written by Charles Edward Chapman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with California categories.
Bucareli intended to supply the northern outposts in California by ship from San Blas. The outposts had not been able to establish agricultural resources and had no manufacturing. Everything had to be supplied from Mexico. Because of storms and the few ships available to deliver supplies, people in the outposts endured great hardships. Eventually the ships did bring supplies and the Anza land expedition from Sonora to San Francisco brought supplies and population.
The Alta California Supply Ships 1773 76
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Author : Charles E 1880-1941 Chapman
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Alta California Supply Ships 1773 76 written by Charles E 1880-1941 Chapman and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
Originally published in 1930, this non-fiction work tells the story of the Spanish supply ships that sailed from Mexico to California in the late 18th century, supporting the missions and military outposts that formed the nucleus of Spanish colonial power in the region. With meticulous research and vivid storytelling, author Charles E. Chapman offers a window into a little-known chapter of California history, shedding light on the daily lives of sailors, explorers, and colonists in a time of great change and upheaval. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.