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Author : W. Michael Mathes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Brief History of the Land of Calafia written by W. Michael Mathes and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Niemann
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780932653475
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Baja Legends written by Greg Niemann and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Baja Fever shares his extensive knowledge of the peninsula, its colorful past and booming present, in this fascinating reference book. History, lore, and amazing stories make it a "must-have" for Bajaphiles as well as armchair travelers.
Author : Rick Walker
Publisher : Rick Walker
ISBN 13 : 0578661004
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Calafia written by Rick Walker and published by Rick Walker. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calafia is a historical fiction thriller filled with mystery, suspense, and political saga about the untold story of the Spanish discovery and colonization of California. This gripping account chronicles the suspenseful clashes of the explorers and Indians cultures on the early American western frontier. Travel back in time to 1767, an era of ignorance and enlightenment. Rub shoulders with Spanish royalty and revel in their debaucheries. Venture aboard the ships that brought Old World values to the New World. Trek with the priests and soldiers who sought to tame the strangers they encountered during their “Sacred Expedition.” Meet the indigenous people who resisted Spanish incursions. Calafia is the most complete tale ever of the colonization of California. It is also the first in a planned series about the people who made the Golden State what it is today.
Author : Bárbara Reyes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292718969
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Private Women, Public Lives written by Bárbara Reyes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lives and works of three women in colonial California, Bárbara O. Reyes examines frontier mission social spaces and their relationship to the creation of gendered colonial relations in the Californias. She explores the function of missions and missionaries in establishing hierarchies of power and in defining gendered spaces and roles, and looks at the ways that women challenged, and attempted to modify, the construction of those hierarchies, roles, and spaces. Reyes studies the criminal inquiry and depositions of Barbara Gandiaga, an Indian woman charged with conspiracy to murder two priests at her mission; the divorce petition of Eulalia Callis, the first lady of colonial California who petitioned for divorce from her adulterous governor-husband; and the testimonio of Eulalia Pérez, the head housekeeper at Mission San Gabriel who acquired a position of significant authority and responsibility but whose work has not been properly recognized. These three women's voices seem to reach across time and place, calling for additional, more complex analysis and questions: Could women have agency in the colonial Californias? Did the social structures or colonial processes in place in the frontier setting of New Spain confine or limit them in particular gendered ways? And, were gender dynamics in colonial California explicitly rigid as a result of the imperatives of the goals of colonization?
Author : Gregory Orfalea
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451642725
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
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Author : Edie Littlefield Sundby
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0718093437
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Mission Walker written by Edie Littlefield Sundby and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audie Award Finalist for best inspirational book! IMAGE AWARD (Native Daughters of the Golden West) "The Mission Walker is a marvelous book, a moving meditation on the relationships between courage and faith, endurance and transcendence." Randall Sullivan, Creator, The Miracle Detective, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) Have you ever wanted to just start walking, and never ever stop? To leave behind “WHO I AM” to find “WHO I AM.” Walking alone, and with one lung (the other lost to cancer), Edie Littlefield Sundby became the first person in history to walk the 1,600-mile El Camino Real de las Californias mission trail through the mountain wilderness of Mexico and one of the hottest deserts on earth, and across the border to Northern California - a walk that elevated her life with meaning and purpose that transcended pain and fear – and healed her broken body. THE MISSION WALKER is a first-hand account of harrowing adventure along the old Jesuit mission trail in Baja California Mexico -- desert heat and cold, walls of cactus, sleeplessness, hunger, both physical and spiritual exhaustion, the dangers of wild creatures, and encounters with drug smugglers and weeks with no water other than what a pack mule could carry; and the tortuous agony and transcendent beauty of walking the northern half of the mission trail through California, a trek Edie made six months after losing her right lung to cancer – a journey that restored health and spirit after fighting recurrent stage 4 cancer, including 79 rounds of chemotherapy, four radical surgeries (liver, lung, colon/stomach, and throat), and dozens of radiation treatments. Edie’s story is both an adventure story and a reflection on the universal experience of confronting our own mortality. It is a story of what we will do when faced with the potential end of our life. What do we do with our time left on earth. And how much do we still really, truly want to live. The book cites more than 50 original historical sources and captures the untamed wilderness adventure experienced for centuries along the old Jesuit and Franciscan mission trail that unites California and Mexico and defines the Old West. For those who crave a spirit of adventure, who ache like Edie to know what our bodies and spirits are truly capable of, this book is a must-read. A true testament to faith, courage, and the power of hope. Editorial Reviews: "Edie Sundby’s account of her amazing trek along the entirety of the 1,600-mile California Mission Trail is not only captivating and inspiring but also one heck of an outdoors adventure." Les Standiford, Author and Historian "This powerful story of determination and faith will stay with you forever." Ken Budd Journalist/Author “… a gripping narrative that takes us through the author’s harrowing journeys, inward and outward.” JoBeth McDaniel Journalist/Author "The Mission Walker is a marvelous book, a moving meditation on the relationships between courage and faith, endurance and transcendence." Randall Sullivan, Creator, The Miracle Detective, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)
Author : Rose Marie Beebe
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149663
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Junípero Serra written by Rose Marie Beebe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary, Beebe and Senkewicz focus on Serra’s religious identity and his relations with Native peoples. They intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serra’s letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging fashion.
Author : Celia Stahr
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250113393
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Frida in America written by Celia Stahr and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today "[An] insightful debut....Featuring meticulous research and elegant turns of phrase, Stahr’s engrossing account provides scholarly though accessible analysis for both feminists and art lovers." —Publisher's Weekly Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit. Frida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo.
Author : Rick Walker
Publisher : History of California
ISBN 13 : 9780578660998
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Calafia: The Untold Story of California's Beginnings written by Rick Walker and published by History of California. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calafia is a historical fiction thriller filled with mystery, suspense, and political drama. This tale is about the untold story of the Spanish discovery and colonization of California, chronicling the clash of the explorers and Indian culture on the early American western frontier.The adventure starts in Spain with sovereign power mongers pulling strings behind the scenes to gain military dominance in America. Creating the "Sacred Expedition" results in a cultural deluge for the indigenous people of California. Calafia threads the sea and land adventure of military men, missionaries, and explorers carrying out their often-brutal directives on the unsuspecting Indians. Loaded with actual accounts and versions of the people's history of California, embark on a first-hand retelling steeped in violence and marked by struggle. After a lifetime of service as a transcriber to King Charles III's chief minister and to several Alta California governors, Sergio Monino sits at his desk in Monterey in 1818 to pen Calafia for posterity. Part memoir, part narrative history, his story is filled with political intrigue, military exploits, daring exploration, religious beginnings, and cultural development.As fascinating as it is distressing, Sergio shares a sympathetic account of the indigenous people who would eventually be displaced by European pioneers in one of the greatest U.S. historical sagas.
Author : George Davidson
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297753X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book California written by Kevin Starr and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco
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Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062405381
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