Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820
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In this text the author, Sherburne Friend Cook, looks at what he sees as a little explored area of the general anthropology and history of California natives, namely the contact between the Spanish-Mexican settlers and the aboriginal population within the Indians' own territory. This contact was achieved through "a constant succession of expeditions, sorties, raids, and campaigns" that came in from the coast. and was documented in reports, diaries, letters. Cook gives the reader valuable access to these documents in a printed format and translated into English.
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- COLONIAL EXPEDITIONS TO THE INTERIOR OF CALIFORNIA CENTRAL VALLEY, 1800-1820 BY S. F. COOK
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS
- CONTENTS
- COLONIAL EXPEDITIONS TO THE INTERIOR OF CALIFORNIA
- CENTRAL VALLEY, 1800-1820
- INTRODUCTION
- I. EARLY EXPEDITIONS, 1776-1803
- EXCERPTS FROM OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE
- HERMENEGILDO SAL’S EXPEDITION, 1796
- II. EXPEDITIONS, 1804-1805
- FATHER MARTIN’S VISIT TO CHOLAM, 1804
- FATHER MARTIN’S VISIT TO BUBAL, 1805
- EXPEDITION OF SECOND LIEUTENANT LUÍS ARGÜELLO, 1805
- III. EXPEDITIONS BY ZALVIDEA AND MORAGA, 1806-1807
- FATHER ZALVIDEA’S EXPEDITION, 1806
- LIEUTENANT GABRIEL MORAGA’S EXPEDITION, 1806
- REMINISCENCES OF MEXICAN PIONEERS
- IV. JOSÉ PALOMARES’ EXPEDITION TO THE TULARES, 1808
- V. EXPLORATION OF THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA, 1810-1813
- FATHER VIADER’S FIRST TRIP
- FATHER VIADER’S SECOND TRIP
- FATHER RAMÓN ABELLA’S EXPEDITION, 1811
- JOSÉ ARGÜELLO’S ATTACK ON AN INDIAN VILLAGE, 1813
- VI. EXPEDITIONS, 1815-1820
- ORTEGA’S EXPEDITION TO KINGS RIVER AND TULARE LAKE, 1815
- FATHER MARTINEZ’ EXPEDITION
- MINOR SORTIES
- EXPEDITION TO THE DELTA, 1817
- VII. MINOR RAIDS AND FORAYS, 1810-1820
- NOTES
- CHAPTER I (pp. 241-242)
- CHAPTER II (pp. 243-244)
- CHAPTER III (pp. 245-255)
- CHAPTER IV (pp. 256-257)
- CHAPTER V (pp. 258-266)
- CHAPTER VI (pp. 267-279)
- CHAPTER VII (pp. 280-281)
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- PUBLISHED WORKS
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