Mariano_Guadalupe_Vallejo

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Researching at the library for another class, I ran across on exemplary narrative by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. “Recuerdos historicos y personales tocante a la alta California” compromises nearly one-thousand pages of personal, social, and cultural history. In it, Vallejo seems embittered toward the Americanos and yet aware of his own self-betrayal. As a man in his sixties relating the history of California from 1769 – 1849 with a clear view of its social formation, its transition from Spanish to Mexican influence, and its radical transformation under the American regime, his is a narrative that fuses his own story with the larger social history of the times. Vallejo is perhaps the prime example of the political Californio entrepreneur in the 1800’s whose fortunes measurably reflect the shifting politics of the time. He parlayed his soldering under california, social, vallejo, history, under, time, sonoma, regime, political, own, northern, narrative, mexican, yet, whose, wealth, war, view, vallejo’s, united, transition, transformation, toward, tocante, times, thousands, tend, surrounding, stripped, story, states, spanish, soldering, small