General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans

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Summary: My Place To Start
Review: I've read a lot of history over the last twenty years, but despite having lived in northern California the entire time and despite being more than sympathetic to both Mexican and Native American perspectives on California history, I've read very little pre-1848 history of the state. General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans is a short, impressionistic biography of Commandant General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, who was born in 1807 in the town of Monterey in the Mexican province of California and was a major participant in the following sixty most tumultuous years of California history. He died peacefully in 1890 at his home in the town of Sonoma in the American state of California.

The book has been my reason and place to start reading pre-1848 California history. And it's been fun.

Oh, yes. General Vallejo's wife's given name was Francisca Benicia Carrillo. I worked in Vallejo, California, for the last three years before I retired, and I'll be returning to my home in Benicia, California, next summer.