Testimonios: Early California Through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848

Testimonios: Early California Through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848
ISBN-10
1597140333
ISBN-13
9781597140331
Category
History
Pages
470
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Heyday

Description

When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn't count on one thing: the women. When the men weren't available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the-household-sometimes almost as an after-thought. These were eventually archived at the University of California, although many were all but forgotten.

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