gringorio
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Baja/Sea of Cortez History?
can anyone recommend a good history book for the Baja California and Sea of Cortez region? maybe something that includes indigenous people, the
Spaniards, the missionaries, and geographic exploration as well.
thanks!
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David K
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There are so many!!! Here's a sampling of what I have in that subject catagory:
Pablo Martinez: 'A History of Lower California'
Francisco Javier Clavigero: 'History of (Lower) California'
Harry Crosby: 'Antigua California'; 'The King's Highway in Baja California'; 'Gateway to Alta California'; 'Last of the Californios'; 'The Cave
Paintings of Baja California'
Greg Niemann: 'Baja Legends'
Edward Vernon: 'Las Misiones Antiguas, The Spanish Missions of Baja California'
Dave Werschkul: 'Saints and Demons in a Desert Wilderness'
Arthur North: 'The Mother of California'
Gene Kira: 'The Unforgettable Sea of Cortez'
Howard Gulick & Peter Gerhard: 'Lower California Guidebook'
Choral Pepper: 'Baja California: Vanished Missions, Lost Treasures, Strange Stories Tall and True'
Robert Jackson: 'Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840'
Homer Aschmann: 'The Central Desert of Baja California: Demography and Ecology'
There are more... all the above are excellent!
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John M
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recommendations
David provided a pretty comprehensive list.
My list would be:
1. Last of the Californios by Harry Crosby
2. History of (Lower) California by Clavigero.
Crosby book (and he has done several - all wonderful books) is specifically about how descendants of pioneer ranching familes continue in the life
style of of their ancestors in the high lands and valleys of the peninsular mountains.
John M.
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jrbaja
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The rancho families
I have lot's of pictures of these families who are my friends at http://groups.msn.com/TheBajasBestGuidesPhotoAlbum
Talamantes, Mosquaida, Cota, Sosa y Silva, Higuera are a few of the names. If you find your books, you will be seeing these names in them.
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synch
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Nice bamboo rack on the purple truck
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jrbaja
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I guess you could say
that the rack is part of bamboo history. I got the bamboo for it in south Baja. Thanks.
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