Viva California! Seven Accounts of Life in Early California

by Michael Burgess

Book Overview

Here are seven previously uncollected documents relating to the history of California, from its early days as a Mexican territory to the first fifty years of statehood as part of the United States. Jos del Carmen Lugo, a native-born Californio, tells of his life as a ranchero in San Bernardino and elsewhere, and the coming of the Norteamericanos in the 1840s. Benjamin Davis (Benito) Wilson recounts many of the same events from the perspective of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809538008
• ISBN13: 9780809538003
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Borgo Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"