viva California! Seven Accounts Of Life In Early California Paperback -

Here Are Seven Previously Uncollected Documents Relating To The History Of California, From Its Early Days As AMexican Territory To The First Fifty Years Of Statehood As Part Of The United StatesJosé Del Carmen Lugo, ANativeborn Californio, Tells Of His Life As ARanchero In San Bernardino And Elsewhere, And The Coming Of The Norteamericanos In The sBenjamin Davis benito Wilson Recounts Many Of The Same Events From The Perspective Of An Englishspeaking Settler Who Intermarried With One Of The Early Landowning Mexican Families, And Later Supported The U.sSide During The Mexicanamerican War Of Alexandre Holinski Touts The Virtues Of Frontier California And San Francisco During The Gold Rush Days, As Seen From AForeigners Unique PerspectiveMark Lafayette Landrum, Who Settled In California During The Early Days Of Statehood, Relates His Rise To Power As ALocal Politician In Northern CaliforniaAmos Carpenter Rogers Gives Us An Account Of ARough Voyage Round The Tip Of South America To The Gold Rush FieldsAlexander HTodd And William TBallou Provide Further Illumination With Their Brief Accounts Of Life In Early California And The Pacific NorthwestFor The Student Of California History, These Firstperson Narratives Will Open AWindow Onto APeriod Now Long ForgottenComplete With Notes, Bibliography, And Detailed IndexMichael Burgess Is AProfessor Emeritus At California State University, San BernardinoMary Wickizer Burgess Was The Copublisher For Many Years Of Borgo PressBetween Them They Have Authored Over Books'