California History Translated
Rose Marie Beebe (Modern Languages and Literatures, emerita) and Robert M. Senkewicz (History, emeritus) have published, in two volumes, the first English translation of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s 1875 pioneering history of Alta California. His Recuerdos: Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769-1849 is the most detailed history of pre-US California that was written by someone who actually lived there. Vallejo composed his Recuerdos in conjunction with the composition of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s seven-volume History of California. Rose Marie and Bob also published a third, companion volume of interpretive essays—Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California. This companion volume deals with issues that confronted Vallejo and the Californio population before and after the US conquest. All three volumes have been published by the University of Oklahoma Press.