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Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846
by Rose Marie Beebe, Rose Mar, and Robert M. Senkewicz, ed. (2001) |
Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786: The Journals of Jean Francois De La Perouse
Malcolm Margolin (introduction) (1989) |
The Natural World of the California Indians
by Robert Fleming Heizer, Albert B. Elasser (1981) |
Monterey: Presidio, Pueblo, Port
by J. D. Conway (2003) |
Over 60 selections from letters, journals, official reports and proclamations, interrogations, and interviews — many presented in English for the first time — reveal early California through the eyes of those who explored it, colonized it, and settled it in the age before the Gold Rush. |
Frenchman de la Perouse was the first foreign visitor to Spain's California colony at Monterey, coming ashore to document the area's flora, fauna — and Indian customs — in 1786. Illustrated by Linda Yamane, a descendant of the Rumsien peoples who Perouse might have observed at Carmel Mission. |
Learn about the plants, animals, and community ecology of the Native American peoples in California, including the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen peoples of Big Sur. |
Discover Monterey's history, from the discoveries of Spanish explorers through the founding of the Presidio by Gaspar de Portola and the peopling of the pueblo by Juan Bautista de Anza, concluding with the development of the harbor into Alta California's primary port. |
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California Missions — a Sunset Pictorial Book
(1979) |
The Burning of Monterey: The 1818 Attack on California by the Privateer Bouchard
by Peter Uhrowczik (2001) |
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Beautiful photography and detailed text describe all 21 missions in the chain founded by Franciscan padre Junipero Serra. A classic. |
A concise history of California's only battle between ship and shore, when the privateer Hippolyte Bouchard of Argentina, took on Spain at its furthest-flung port. |
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