Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846.

Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846.

Role

Rose Marie Beebe (Editor)

Robert M. Senkewicz (Editor)

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This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses, and fandangos—but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss. Conflicts between missionaries and soldiers, Indians and settlers, friends and neighbors spill from these pages, bringing the ferment of daily life into sharp focus.

ISBN

978-0806151380

Publication Date

8-6-2015

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Disciplines

United States History

Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846.

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