Gateway to Alta California

Gateway to Alta California

Author: Harry Crosby

Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9780932653574

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The story of this journey through northern Baja California's unexplored wilderness to San Diego is actually two stories, crafted by artful and incisive historian Harry Crosby. The first begins well before the expedition commences and involves world events, politics, and the characters who were destined to forge this momentous march. The second is a daily record of the trek itself, told through first-person diary excerpts and the author's own comments as he followed in their footsteps, mapping this historic route for the first time. Together, they show not only the hardships and victories of blazing the difficult trail, but the resolve of this company of fifty heroic men. Gateway to Alta California contains the author's color maps, which provide a graphic statement of the journey into terra incognita, as well as his black-and-white photos of the largely unchanged terrain. Also included are lists of all Hispanic members of the expedition party -- many identified here for the first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.


Gateway to Alta California

Gateway to Alta California

Author: Harry W. Crosby

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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The first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.


Antigua California

Antigua California

Author: Harry W. Crosby

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9780826314956

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This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.


Colombia

Colombia

Author: Lois Markham

Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780761401407

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Introduces the geography, history, people, and culture of the country known as the Gateway to South America.


California Indians

California Indians

Author: Mir Tamim Ansary

Publisher: Capstone Classroom

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781588103499

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Describes the traditional way of life of the Indians of California and the changes brought to it by Europeans, discussing homes, clothing, games, crafts, and beliefs.


Weekend Driver

Weekend Driver

Author: Jack Brandais

Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.

Published: 2003-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780932653635

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A guide to day drives in and around San Diego County. Includes maps, photos, driving directions, some historical information, and a comprehensive index. Author writes the bi-weekly Weekend Driver column for the Wheels section of the San Diego Union Tribune.


Californio Portraits

Californio Portraits

Author: Harry W. Crosby

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0806152583

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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 the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the present. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes. Having ridden hundreds of miles by mule to visit with various Californio families and gain their confidence, Crosby provides an unparalleled view of their unique lifestyle. Beginning with the story of the first Californios—the eighteenth-century presidio soldiers who accompanied Jesuit missionaries, followed by miners and independent ranchers—Crosby provides personal accounts of their modern-day descendants and the ways they build their homes, prepare their food, find their water, and tan their cowhides. Augmenting his previous work with significant new sources, material, and photographs, he draws a richly textured portrait of a people unlike any other—families cultivating skills from an earlier century, living in semi-isolation for decades and, even after completion of the transpeninsular highway, reachable only by mule and horseback. Combining a revised and updated text with a new foreword, introduction, and updated bibliography, Californio Portraits offers the clearest and most detailed portrait possible of a fascinating, unique, and inaccessible people and culture.


Southern California Gardens

Southern California Gardens

Author: Victoria Padilla

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13:

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Account of the land and its flora, both native and naturalized, and of the men and women who devoted themselves to its cultivation.