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020 $a1574411918 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aAmador, José Mariá,$d1794-1883.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79078342
245 10 $aCalifornio voices :$bthe oral memoirs of José María Amador and Lorenzo Asisara /$ctranslated and edited by Gregorio Mora-Torres.
260 $aDenton, Tex. :$bUniversity of North Texas Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $ax, 262 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAl filo ;$vno. 3
500 $aBased on manuscripts originally recorded by Thomas Savage in 1877 for the Bancroft Library.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index.
520 1 $a"In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft sent research assistants across California to record the memoirs of early Californios willing to recount their life experiences. Eighty-three-year-old Don Jose Maria Amador detailed many aspects of his life from his childhood to his days as a "Forty-Niner" during the California Gold Rush. He vividly recounted his experience as a soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco and provided a detailed description of the reconnoitering expeditions that his company took into the interior of California, encountering local indigenous populations." "Amador also dwelled on the major political events of California during the Mexican period. He was able to capture the sense of betrayal felt by other Californios towards the American invasion of their homeland, when their own leaders abandoned them rather than rally them in defense of their country. With bitterness, he described the widespread confiscation by Anglo-Americans of the Californios' goods, livestock, and properties. During one interview, Amador invited his friend, Lorenzo Asisara, a former neophyte from Mission Santa Cruz, to recount his life during the mission days, Asisara described the harsh life and mistreatment that the Indians faced from the priests." "Both the Amador and Asisara narratives were used as sources in Bancroft's writing but never published themselves. Gregorio Mora-Torres has now rescued them from obscurity and presents their voices in English translation (with annotations) and in the original Spanish." "Scholars of California and Mexican American history as well as Spanish language teachers and students will find value in this bilingual edition of a revealing text."--BOOK JACKET.
546 $aEnglish and Spanish parallel text; study in English.
600 10 $aAmador, José Mariá,$d1794-1883$vInterviews.
600 10 $aAsisara, Lorenzo,$d1819-$vInterviews.
650 0 $aMexicans$zCalifornia$vInterviews.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xHistory$yTo 1846$vBiography.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xHistory$y1846-1850$vBiography.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zCalifornia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104176
651 0 $aCalifornia$xEthnic relations.
650 0 $aIndians, Treatment of$zCalifornia$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aIndians of North America$xMissions$zCalifornia$xHistory$y19th century.
700 1 $aAsisara, Lorenzo,$d1819-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004147544
700 1 $aMora-Torres, Gregorio,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004147543
700 1 $aSavage, Thomas,$d1823-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88219073
830 0 $aAl filo ;$vno. 3.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003114868
852 00 $bglx$hF864$i.A525 2005