Californio Portraits: Baja California's Vanishing Culture (Before Gold: California Under Spain and Mexico), by Harry W. Crosby
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First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the present. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes. Having ridden hundreds of miles by mule to visit with various Californio families and gain their confidence, Crosby provides an unparalleled view of their unique lifestyle. Beginning with the story of the first Californios—the eighteenth-century presidio soldiers who accompanied Jesuit missionaries, followed by miners and independent ranchers—Crosby provides personal accounts of their modern-day descendants and the ways they build their homes, prepare their food, find their water, and tan their cowhides. Augmenting his previous work with significant new sources, material, and photographs, he draws a richly textured portrait of a people unlike any other—families cultivating skills from an earlier century, living in semi-isolation for decades and, even after completion of the transpeninsular highway, reachable only by mule and horseback. Combining a revised and updated text with a new foreword, introduction, and updated bibliography, Californio Portraits offers the clearest and most detailed portrait possible of a fascinating, unique, and inaccessible people and culture.
Californio Portraits: Baja California's Vanishing Culture (Before Gold: California Under Spain and Mexico), by Harry W. Crosby- Amazon Sales Rank: #540498 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x .11" w x 6.13" l, 1.40 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
Review “Descended from the first Mexican families who settled the region, the remote mountain people of Baja California follow a lifestyle that preserves their traditional folkways. In lively, elegant prose and stunning photographs, Harry W. Crosby portrays the Californios’ customs and rich heritage. This newly updated version of Crosby’s seminal work on the Sierra de Guadalupe will become an indispensable reference for scholars, Baja California devotees, and anyone interested in the complete saga of northwestern Mexico and the American southwest.”—Iris H. W. Engstrand author of San Diego: California’s Cornerstone and William Wolfskill: Frontier Trapper to California Ranchero
About the Author Harry W. Crosby is a photographer and historian who specializes in the history of Alta California and Baja California. His books include Gateway to Alta California: The Expedition to San Diego, 1769, Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697–1768, and The Cave Paintings of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Nostalgic about these gatekeepers By Dr Jacques COULARDEAU This book is essential to understand a little bit more this Baja California. The old ranchero time, which is so young in retrospective, less that three centuries, or about, when human occupation is going beyond counted time, which is probably beyond the Ice Age, this time is vanishing.This ranchero agricultural and herding living styles are indeed vanishing because for one it does not pay any more what is needed to simply live in our modern world, and for a second reason because people want to have TV, all modern commodities and amenities and the possibility to go around, to celebrate, to educate themselves, to live on a grand scale, which is not exactly possible in such a desolate place. But the book is essential just to keep it alive in our memories and in our consciousness. And we must keep in mind that this poverty and these poor people are those who saved, kept, unknowingly about the value of it, the oldest heritage of Northern America, at least 20,000 years old or more, though no one has even dared to try and speculate, which means start some real geological and archaeological research.The phenomenal paintings on the rock faces of this peninsula are not yet properly dated because the paint used by the first inhabitants of this region does not contain any carbon and cannot be dated with standard methods. Then we should start excavating to find what is no longer visible, what is in the earth, covered up by centuries of dust. That has not been done. We should also really analyze these paintings and compare them with all the rock paintings we know in the world, including the oldest that seem to go back to 45,000 years ago, at least.But we must understand these simple people living there are the wardens of this treasure and we must also say that those who arrived from Europe were wise enough or unaware enough not to destroy this heritage and it is still there. It could really with some work and investment become a high spot of artistic tourism. Millions of people every year are visiting such sites all around the world, and even sites that are less old that this one.The strangest element I find I n this field is the opposition of geologists and archaeologists to just ask the question because it obviously cannot be seen as an appendage of the Clovis migration. It is totally disruptive of this hypothesis and dominant archaeological forces seem to be so attached to this Clovis hypothesis that they block any other approach with spite and arrogance, the way mandarins can do all over the world in any culture. It will fall one day, and soon, just the way the refusal of Africa as the nest of Homo Sapiens fell and the same way today we have pushed things so far back that we cannot even imagine Homo Sapiens emerging less than 300,000 years ago. It was a miserable 100,000 years ago some thirty years ago, and we know today Homo Sapiens arrived in Crete some 160,000 years ago. Things have obviously changed. Where is the time when Greenberg was laughed at when he pretended all human languages had only one source, one melting pot.And they will change in America too when we start digging in Chile and in Baja California, and probably some other sites, both in South, Meso- and North America. But let us thank these simple Californians from Baja California who have saved and kept this unique heritage. And let discover and understand their way of life, even if it is disappearing. They might and probably will be the touristic guides of tomorrow.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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