Podcast
The California Frontier Podcast offers audio versions of our articles, as well as interviews with scholars, experts and people passionate about California's unique history and culture. Click on the articles below to listen in your web browser, download episodes or subscribe on your favorite podcast app.
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How Did the California Missions End?
The California missions ended after Mexico became independent of Spain. The newly independent Mexican government passed laws that called for an end…
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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Military commander, town founder, politician, patriarch. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was arguably the most powerful man in northern Alta California. After the American…
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Fr. José Altimira and Mission San Francisco Solano
Fr. José Altimira was a Spanish Franciscan priest who founded Mission San Francisco Solano, the last — and most controversial — of…
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Podcast Episode 002 — “You Have to Carry This On”: What it Means to Be a Californio
In this episode, I speak with Greg Bernal-Mendoza Smestad, a direct descendant of the families who settled Alta California over 200 years…
