{"product_id":"californio-voices-gregorio-mora-torres-9781574414387","title":"Californio Voices: The Oral Memoirs of José María Amador and Lorenzo Asisara Volume 3","description":"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 José María 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregorio Mora-Torres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1574414380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781574414387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Gregorio Mora-Torres","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939724001535,"sku":"9781574414387","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_27bd35e9-4334-4572-a69f-6ed45abdc3ed.jpg?v=1681443133","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/californio-voices-gregorio-mora-torres-9781574414387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}