Californio Portraits: Baja California's Vanishing Culture

by Harry W. Crosby

Book Overview

First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby's Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios' contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806148691
• ISBN13: 9780806148694
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"