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Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848

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Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848

The lives of women on the California frontier in their own words.

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Author: Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Year: 2015
ASIN: B013Q3WLRW
ISBN: 0806148721
About the Book

When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—sometimes almost as an afterthought. These interviews were eventually archived at the University of California, though many were all but forgotten. Testimonios presents thirteen women’s firsthand accounts from the days when California was part of Spain and Mexico. Having lived through the gold rush and seen their country change so drastically, these women understood the need to tell the full story of the people and the places that were their California.

About the Author
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz
Rose Marie Beebe is Professor of Spanish Literature at Santa Clara University. Robert M Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. He is the author, together with Rose Marie Beebe, of a number of books dealing with California during its Spanish and Mexican eras, including recently To Toil in That Vineyard of the Lord: Contemporary Scholarship on Junípero Serra (2010), and Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary (2015).
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