[PDF] The Californios eBook

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 055389899X

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Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family home in jeopardy. After the death of his father, Sean’s determined mother, Eileen, took it upon herself to run the sprawling Rancho Malibu—until a fire destroyed her hard-earned profits. Now, on the edge of financial ruin, Eileen hopes Sean can help them find a way out. The rumor is that her late husband found gold in the wild and haunted California hills, but the only clue to its whereabouts lies with an ancient, enigmatic Indian. When Sean and Eileen set forth to retrace his father’s footsteps, they know they are in search of a questionable treasure—with creditors, greedy neighbors, and ruthless gunmen watching every move they make. Before they reach their destination, mother and son will test both the limits of their faith and the laws of nature as they seek salvation in a landscape where reality can blur like sand and sky in a desert mirage.

Author : Leonard Pitt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520016378

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""Decline of the Californios" is one of those rare works that first gained fame for its pathbreaking and original nature, but which now maintains its status as a classic of California and ethnic history."--Douglas Monroy, author of "Thrown among Strangers"

Author : Obi Kaufmann
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2017-09
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781597144025

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"[A] gorgeously illustrated compendium."--Sunset This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California, revealing its myriad ecologies, topographies, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the natural world, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is staggeringly beautiful: presented alongside California divvied into its fifty-eight counties, for example, we consider California made up of dancing tectonic plates, of watersheds, of wildflower gardens. Maps are enhanced by spirited illustrations of wildlife, keys that explain natural phenomena, and a clear-sighted but reverential text. Full of character and color, a bit larger than life, The California Field Atlas is the ultimate road trip companion and love letter to a place.

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525246152

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When Eileen Mulkerin is about to lose her ranch, an old Indian leads her to hidden gold.

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553209563

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Just before gold was discovered in California there was a band of cutthroats after the only ones who knew it.

Author : José Mariá Amador
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574411918

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In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early Californios, one of them being eighty-three-year-old Don Jose Maria Amador, a former Forty-Niner during the California Gold Rush and soldado de cuera at the Presidio of San Francisco. Amador tells of reconnoitering expeditions into the interior of California, where he encountered local indigenous populations. He speaks of political events of Mexican California and the widespread confiscation of the Californios' goods, livestock, and properties when the United States took control. A friend from Mission Santa Cruz, Lorenzo Asisara, also describes the harsh life and mistreatment 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 on facing pages. This bilingual edition will be of great interest to historians of the West, California, and Mexican American studies.

Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307969444

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Spanish California provides the background for this poignant portrayal of an Irish family's efforts to protect its Malibu ranch.