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LEADER: 02091cam a2200397 i 4500
001 2015012599
003 DLC
005 20150923082734.0
008 150518r20152001okuab b s001 0deng
010 $a 2015012599
020 $a9780806151380 (paperback : alkaline paper)
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042 $apcc
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050 00 $aF864$b.L26 2015
082 00 $a979.4/01$223
245 00 $aLands of promise and despair :$bchronicles of early California, 1535-1846 /$cedited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz.
250 $aPaperback edition.
264 1 $aNorman :$bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,$c2015.
300 $axx, 505 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published: Berkeley, California : Heyday Books, 2001.
520 2 $a"Lands of Promise and Despair contain dozens of accounts from explorers, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers spanning the three centuries of Spanish and Mexican California. Sources range from well-known figures like Christopher Columbus and Juan Bautista Alvarado to lesser-known individuals like San Diego native Juana Machado and Russian hunter Vassili Petrovitch Tarakanoff. Selected by the editors, the documents provide a useful resource for instructors and students of the history of California"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 488-490) and index.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xHistory$yTo 1846$vSources.
650 0 $aSpaniards$zCalifornia$xHistory$vSources.
650 0 $aIndians of North America$zCalifornia$xHistory$vSources.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zCalifornia$vSources.
650 0 $aPioneers$zCalifornia$xHistory$vSources.
650 0 $aExplorers$zCalifornia$xHistory$vSources.
650 0 $aMissionaries$zCalifornia$xHistory$vSources.
650 0 $aSoldiers$zCalifornia$xHistory$vSources.
700 1 $aBeebe, Rose Marie,$eeditor.
700 1 $aSenkewicz, Robert M.,$d1947-$eeditor.