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This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors, but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss.

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If we had only one anthology to cover the sweep of California history from earliest human habitation to conquest by the United States, it would have to be this extraordinary volume, which weaves learned annotation and original documents into a rich mosaic of narrative, fact, and interpretation."" - Kevin Starr University of Southern California

Lands of Promise and Despair

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    A Paperback by Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M Senkewicz

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 8/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780806151380, 978-0806151380
      ISBN10: 0806151382

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors, but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss.

      Trade Review
      If we had only one anthology to cover the sweep of California history from earliest human habitation to conquest by the United States, it would have to be this extraordinary volume, which weaves learned annotation and original documents into a rich mosaic of narrative, fact, and interpretation."" - Kevin Starr University of Southern California

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