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The History of Alta California - A Memoir of Mexican California (Paperback)
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The History of Alta California - A Memoir of Mexican California (Paperback)
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Antonio Maria 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.
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