Pick Up Lands Of Promise And Despair: Chronicles Of Early California, 1535-1846 Designed By Rose Marie Beebe Shared As Digital Copy

is a textbook for my CCSF archeology course:
ANTHBay Area Archaeology
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Examination of the archaeological record left behind by the early Spanish, Russian and Mexican explorers and settlers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Emphasis is placed on artifacts, sites, and material culture to understand sociocultural organization and acculturation A moving account of the way California was when Spanish missionaries first arrived, Especially interesting for details about Santa Barbara, Ventura etc and the native populations way of life, Excerpts from Spanish letters, eye witness accounts etc A great collection of primary sources from the preAmerican period, Includes some of the only surviving Indian voices from the Mexican era, like that of Pablo Tac, the Luiseno who went to Rome to study for the priesthood, Though he didn't live past histh birthday he learned to read and write, and wrote down his detailed recollections of mission life, Also includes some harrowing stuff, like the Indians at Mission Santa Cruz who murdered a sadistic padre who was

overly fond of the irontipped lash, Essential reading for the California history buff, Western History. While the lastof California History, from the gold rush to the present, have been well researched and described in hundreds of books, the previous three centuriesfrom the first explorations of Baja California into the MexicanAmerican War ofare either ignored entirely or distorted by myth.
LANDS OF PROMISE AND DESPAIR is a copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents mostly by residents of early California, from the viewpoint of people who made their homes in it.
This ambitious and accessible book, with maps, paintings, sketches, and early photographs, is sure to become a cornerstone in the study of California history, .