Book Description
Describes how the Spanish Dons wrested the Californian lands from the missionaries and lost them to the American pioneers with the start of the gold rush.
Author : Richard F. Pourade
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Architecture
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Describes how the Spanish Dons wrested the Californian lands from the missionaries and lost them to the American pioneers with the start of the gold rush.
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Richard F. Pourade
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Richard F. Pourade
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 1965
Category : California, Southern
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Author : Thomas Settles
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807149632
Of all the major figures of the Civil War era, Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder is perhaps the least understood. The third-ranking officer in Virginia's forces behind Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, Magruder left no diary, no completed memoirs, no will, not even a family Bible. There are no genealogical records and very few surviving personal papers. Unsurprisingly, then, much existing literature about Magruder contains incorrect information. In John Bankhead Magruder, an exhaustive biography that reflects more than thirty years of painstaking archival research, Thomas M. Settles remedies the many factual inaccuracies surrounding this enigmatic man and his military career. Settles traces Magruder's family back to its seventeenth-century British American origins, describes his educational endeavors at the University of Virginia and West Point, and details his early military career and his leading role as an artillerist in the war with Mexico. Tall, handsome, and flamboyant, Magruder earned the nickname "Prince John" from his army friends and was known for his impeccable manners and social brilliance. When Virginia seceded in April of 1861, Prince John resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and offered his services to the Confederacy. Magruder won the opening battle of the Civil War at Big Bethel. Later, in spite of severe shortages of weapons and supplies and a lack of support from Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Samuel Cooper, and Joseph E. Johnston, Prince John, with just 13,600 men, held his position on the Peninsula for a month against George B. McClellan's 105,000-man Federal army. This successful stand, at a time when Richmond was exceedingly vulnerable, provided, according to Settles, John Magruder's greatest contribution to the Confederacy. Following the Seven Days' battles, however, his commanders harshly criticized Magruder for being too slow at Savage Station, then too rash at Malvern Hill and they transferred him to command the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In Texas, he skillfully recaptured the port of Galveston in early 1863 and held it for the Confederacy until the end of the war. After the war, he joined the Confederate exodus to Mexico but eventually returned to the United States, living in New York City and New Orleans before settling in Houston, where he died on February 18, 1871. John Bankhead Magruder offers fresh insight into many aspects of the general's life and legacy, including his alleged excesses, his family relationships, and the period between Magruder's death and his memorialization into the canon of Lost Cause mythology. With engaging prose and impressive research, Settles brings this vibrant Civil War figure to life.
Author : Richard F. Pourade
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1964
Category : California, Southern
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Author : Donald H. Harrison
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780932653680
Louis Rose, an Old World immigrant, came to San Diego in 1850 and was one of the key figures who helped to shape the region. This comprehensive biography addresses not only the founding of Jewish institutions in San Diego, but how Rose helped to develop secular institutions as well.
Author : Leonard Pitt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520016378
""Decline of the Californios" is one of those rare works that first gained fame for its pathbreaking and original nature, but which now maintains its status as a classic of California and ethnic history."--Douglas Monroy, author of "Thrown among Strangers"
Author : Andrew Grant Wood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 29,12 MB
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1461639719
A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.–Mexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of mining and the rise of Tijuana, the book examines a number of aspects of the region's social and cultural history, including urban growth and housing, the mysterious underworld of border-town nightlife, a film noir treatment of the Peteet family suicides, borderlands cuisine, the life of squatters, and popular religion. As stimulating as it is lively, On the Border will spark a new appreciation for the range of social and cultural experiences in the borderlands.
Author : Matthew F. Bokovoy
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826336442
In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36. Both San Diego fairs displayed a portrait of the Southwest and its peoples for the American public. The Panama-California Exposition of 1915-16 celebrated Southwestern pluralism and gave rise to future promotional events including the Long Beach Pacific Southwest Exposition of 1928, the Santa Fe Fiesta of the 1920s, and John Steven McGroarty's The Mission Play. The California-Pacific International Exposition of 1935-36 promoted the Pacific Slope and the consumer-oriented society in the making during the 1930s. These San Diego fairs distributed national images of southern California and the Southwest unsurpassed in the early twentieth century. By examining architecture and landscape, American Indian shows, civic pageants, tourist imagery, and the production of history for celebration and exhibition at each fair, Matthew Bokovoy peels back the rhetoric of romance and reveals the legacies of the San Diego World's Fairs to reimagine the Indian and Hispanic Southwest. In tracing how the two fairs reflected civic conflict over an invented San Diego culture, Bokovoy explains the emergence of a myth in which the city embraced and incorporated native peoples, Hispanics, and Anglo settlers to benefit its modern development.