Californio Voices The Oral Memoirs of Josï¿½ Marï¿½a Amador and Lorenzo Asisara

Name: Californio Voices The Oral Memoirs of Josï¿½ Marï¿½a Amador and Lorenzo Asisara
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ISBN: 9781574414387

ISBN-10: 1574414380

ISBN-13: 9781574414387

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gregorio Mora-Torres

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In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early Californios, one of them being eighty-three-year-old Don José María Amador, a former “Forty-Niner” during the California Gold Rush and soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco. Amador tells of reconnoitering expeditions into the interior of California, where he encountered local indigenous populations. He speaks of political events of Mexican California and the widespread confiscation of the Californios’ goods, livestock, and properties when the United States took control. A friend from Mission Santa Cruz, Lorenzo Asisara, also describes the harsh life and mistreatment the Indians faced…

Book details

Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Publication date: 9/26/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English