Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

“Part of the richness of these essays derives from the new information that Beebe and Senkewicz have discovered from their thoroughgoing research in diverse archival sources. They have not written a hagiography; they are meticulously careful to present multiple sides of difficult issues. Such a balanced approach will allow readers to consider the larger story of the American conquest.”—James Sandos, author of Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions
 

“Despite their modest claims to be simply annotating Vallejo’s writings, Beebe and Senkewicz have produced with Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican,and American California one of the fullest and most critically complex accounts of a prominent californio to date.”— Southern California Quarterly
 

“Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz illustrate how Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo helped form early California and how his story reflects major concerns in the study of nineteenth-century California and the American West. Rather than composing a traditional biography, Beebe and Senkewicz present eight essays that bring together sources to explore California’s Spanish, Mexican, and American periods. An important project, this work compiles sources from across the three periods, developing California’s history beyond the American nation-state. This work’s ecumenical approach is enhanced by primary sources as well as eight significant essays that connect Mariano Vallejo and California history to the broader world. This book is also one that California and Latinx history specialists and generalists will appreciate. It provides much needed context to the Spanish, Mexican, and early American California primary sources that are housed across California and is a wonderful entry point for students to connect with those sources.”— California History