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Book Spanish Mexican Families of Early California  1769 1850

Download or read book Spanish Mexican Families of Early California 1769 1850 written by Marie E. Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Mexican Families of Early California  1769 1850

Download or read book Spanish Mexican Families of Early California 1769 1850 written by Marie E. Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bandido

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  • Author : John Boessenecker
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2012-10-11
  • ISBN : 0806183160
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book Bandido written by John Boessenecker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was he a Mexican American Robin Hood who suffered at the hands of a racist government? In this engrossing biography, John Boessenecker provides definitive answers. Bandido pulls back the curtain on a life story shrouded in myth — a myth created by Vasquez himself and abetted by writers who saw a tale ripe for embellishment. Boessenecker traces his subject's life from his childhood in the seaside adobe village of Monterey, to his years as a young outlaw engaged in horse rustling and robbery. Two terms in San Quentin failed to tame Vasquez, and he instigated four bloody prison breaks that left twenty convicts dead. After his final release from prison, he led bandit raids throughout Central and Southern California. His dalliances with women were legion, and the last one led to his capture in the Hollywood Hills and his death on the gallows at the age of thirty-nine. From dusty court records, forgotten memoirs, and moldering newspaper archives, Boessenecker draws a story of violence, banditry, and retribution on the early California frontier that is as accurate as it is colorful. Enhanced by numerous photographs — many published here for the first time — Bandido also addresses important issues of racism and social justice that remain relevant to this day.

Book Testimonios

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2015-08-10
  • ISBN : 0806153695
  • Pages : 474 pages

Download or read book Testimonios written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—sometimes almost as an afterthought. These interviews were eventually archived at the University of California, though many were all but forgotten. Testimonios presents thirteen women’s firsthand accounts from the days when California was part of Spain and Mexico. Having lived through the gold rush and seen their country change so drastically, these women understood the need to tell the full story of the people and the places that were their California.

Book Westside Chronicles

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  • Author : Jan Loomis
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2012-10-16
  • ISBN : 1614237395
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Westside Chronicles written by Jan Loomis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles sprawled westward toward the sand and sea of Santa Monica Bay throughout the twentieth century as land-grant ranchos gave way to capitalists and promoters. Developers subdivided the coastal land into neighborhoods and communities: Santa Monica, Brentwood, Bel-Air, Westwood, Venice, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Marina del Rey. These became places known to the nation at large for movie stars, moguls and business tycoons; for Will Rogers, Henry Huntington and UCLA; and for estate homes, amusement piers and surfing beaches. Join Jan Loomis, a former West L.A. magazine publisher and historian, as she tells the stories behind how it all came to be West Los Angeles.

Book Building California

Download or read book Building California written by John Arvizu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francisco Xavier Alviso, son of Domingo Alviso and Maria Angela de Trejo, was born in San Miguel de Horcasitas, Sonora, Mexico. His family moved to Alta-California when he was fourteen. He married Maria Augustina in 1787 in Carmel, California. They had seven children. He died in 1803 at the age of 38. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in California.

Book Before L A

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  • Author : David Samuel Torres-Rouff
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2013-09-24
  • ISBN : 0300156626
  • Pages : 503 pages

Download or read book Before L A written by David Samuel Torres-Rouff and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial, and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles we know today. It is a fascinating study of how an innovative intercultural community developed along racial lines, and how immigrants from the United States engineered a profound shift in civic ideals and the physical environment, creating a social and spatial rupture that endures to this day.

Book Los Fundadores

Download or read book Los Fundadores written by Leon Rowland and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowland lists the names of 277 men, "heads of families in upper California," who came from Mexico to northern California in the first fifteen years of its settlement from 1769-1785.

Book Feed My Sheep

Download or read book Feed My Sheep written by Michael Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spanish Americans of New Mexico

Download or read book The Spanish Americans of New Mexico written by Nancie L. Solien González and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Angeles  Pueblo and Region  1781 1850

Download or read book Los Angeles Pueblo and Region 1781 1850 written by Antonio José Ríos-Bustamante and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Indigenous Roots of a Mexican American Family

Download or read book The Indigenous Roots of a Mexican American Family written by Donna S. Morales and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olayo Morales, son of Austacio Morales and Juana Salas, was born in 1875 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. He married Juana Luevano (1885-1951), daughter of Tiburcio Luevano and Manuela Martinez, in 1903. They immigrated to the United States in 1912. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Mexico, Texas and Kansas. Includes Delgado and related families.

Book Presidarias Y Pobladoras

Download or read book Presidarias Y Pobladoras written by Antonia I. Castañeda and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Los Angeles barrio  1850 1890

Download or read book The Los Angeles barrio 1850 1890 written by Richard Griswold Del Castillo and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chronicles of Old Los Angeles

Download or read book Chronicles of Old Los Angeles written by James Roman and published by Museyon. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more to Los Angeles than lights, camera, action! From the city's early, devilish days populated by missionaries, robber barons, oil wells and orange groves, Chronicles of Old Los Angeles explains how the Wild West became the Left Coast. Learn how Alta California became the 31st state, and how ethnic waves built Los Angeles—from Native Americans to Spaniards, Latinos and Asians, followed by gangsters, surfers, architects and the Hollywood pioneers who brought fame to the City of the Angels. Then, discover the city yourself with six guided walking/driving tours of LA's historic neighborhoods, profusely illustrated with color photographs and period maps.