Lands of promise and despair : chronicles of early California, 1535-1846
Rose Marie Beebe (Editor), Robert M. Senkewicz (Editor)
"Lands of Promise and Despair contain dozens of accounts from explorers, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers spanning the three centuries of Spanish and Mexican California. Sources range from well-known figures like Christopher Columbus and Juan Bautista Alvarado to lesser-known individuals like San Diego native Juana Machado and Russian hunter Vassili Petrovitch Tarakanoff. Selected by the editors, the documents provide a useful resource for instructors and students of the history of California"--Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2015
Paperback edition
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2015