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The collection includes images of UCSD taken during the mid-1960s; images used for an exhibition entitled Baja California, 1967-1962; and a proposal for a book about the mountains, people and cave paintings of Baja California. The UCSD photographs are primarily black-and-white. Most were taken as illustrations for the UCSD brochure entitled We propose to challenge (1966). Included in the exhibition photographs are images of peninsular mission architecture, historic places, everyday life on remote ranchos, and landmarks along the unpaved transpeninsular highway.
Contains primarily Crosby's research data on the Spanish and Mexican population of early California.
First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the ...
This Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California.
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The first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.
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