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A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush

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A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush - Paddison, Joshua (Editor)
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California changed dramatically in the years between the founding of the first mission in 1769 and the 1848 gold rush. These eleven eyewitness accounts vividly describe the first European land expedition into an unknown territory; the spread of the missions; the rule of Spain and then Mexico; the rise and fall of California's Russian colony; the emergence of rancho culture; the semi-feudal empires of Vallejo and Sutter; and the arrival of Anglo-Americans as ship-deserters, settlers, traders, and ultimately -- perhaps ...

A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush 1998, Heyday Books

ISBN-13: 9781890771133

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