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MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2023
“My biography is the history of California:” Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and his Recuerdos
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Pacific
In-person presentation
5:30 PM Pacific – Reception
6:00 PM Pacific – Program
The Book Club of California | 312 Sutter Street | San Francisco, California 94108
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California, such as the Monterey Constitutional Convention and the first legislature. Like many Mexican Californios he lost most of his land to squatter occupation and expensive legal proceedings during the first few decades of American rule.
A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well. He aimed to dispel the romantic vision that was beginning to dominate the interpretation of the state’s history before the American conquest. Vallejo sought to correct misrepresentations of California’s past, which dismissed as insignificant the pre–gold rush Spanish and Mexican periods, and conflated them into one “Mission era.” He sought to convince the new rulers of the land in which he ha
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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
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