History Of California The Mexican Governors The Last Mexican Governors The Americans
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Author | : Theodore Henry Hittell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
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General history of California.
Author | : Carlos Manuel Salomon |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806183462 |
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Two-time governor of Alta, California and prominent businessman after the U.S. annexation, Pío de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio who thrived in both the Mexican and the American periods. This is the first biography of Pico, whose life vibrantly illustrates the opportunities and risks faced by Mexican Americans in those transitional years. Carlos Manuel Salomon breathes life into the story of Pico, who—despite his mestizo-black heritage—became one of the wealthiest men in California thanks to real estate holdings and who was the last major Californio political figure with economic clout. Salomon traces Pico’s complicated political rise during the Mexican era, leading a revolt against the governor in 1831 that swept him into that office. During his second governorship in 1845 Pico fought in vain to save California from the invading forces of the United States. Pico faced complex legal and financial problems under the American regime. Salomon argues that it was Pico’s legal struggles with political rivals and land-hungry swindlers that ultimately resulted in the loss of Pico’s entire fortune. Yet as the most litigious Californio of his time, he consistently demonstrated his refusal to become a victim. Pico is an important transitional figure whose name still resonates in many Southern California locales. His story offers a new view of California history that anticipates a new perspective on the multicultural fabric of the state.
Author | : Robert Ryal Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1999-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806131016 |
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Juan Bautista Alvarado (1809-1882), a brilliant and ambitious politician, led California to transitory independence from Mexico in the decade before the American government took over the future state. In this biography of California's first civilian governor, Robert Ryal Miller illuminates much of the history of the Mexican period and the transition to American rule. Aided at first by his young uncle -- Commandant Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo -- Juan Alvarado led two armed revolts against Mexico, declaring himself governor of California at the age of twenty-seven. His administration emphasized education, cultural affairs, the court system, and private property rights. During his term in office -- he was the first governor to serve a full six years -- California was transformed from a poverty-stricken frontier garrison state to a proud pastoral economy based on widespread private ownership of ranches and farms. This informative account of Alvarado's life is based primarily on the 1,200-page manuscript that he dictated in 1876 to an agent of historian Hubert Howe Bancroft and on his "Notes on California History, " prepared in connection with a lawsuit over ownership of the 17,000-acre Rancho San Pablo (northeast of San Francisco), where Alvarado lived for more than thirty years after he left office.
Author | : California Mexican Fact-Finding Comm |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2021-09-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781015121706 |
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Author | : Emma Willard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Download Last Leaves of American History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Franklin Tuthill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Leonard Pitt |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520219588 |
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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 | : Henry Kittredge Norton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Antonio Maria Osio |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 1996-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299149749 |
Download The History of Alta California Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Irving Berdine Richman |
Publisher | : Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : History |
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