This work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.

""Decline of the Californios" is one of those rare works that first gained fame for its pathbreaking and original nature, but which now maintains its status as

The story of an industry: the gathering of historical interviews from the early pioneers and from the builders of California, the interviewers, and the marketin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1885.