Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush (University of California Press, 1998), Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, editors. Commemorate San Francisco’s birthday and the founding of the Presidio by exploring Native American and Californio societies, European voyages of discovery in and
around the Pacific, the changing natural environment, and the Mexican American War through this richly illustrated collection of essays by leading scholars of early California.
Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush (University of California Press, 1998), Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, editors. Commemorate San Francisco’s birthday and the founding of the Presidio by exploring Native American and Californio societies, European voyages of discovery in and
around the Pacific, the changing natural environment, and the Mexican American War through this richly illustrated collection of essays by leading scholars of early California.
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