The life and adventures in California of Don Agustín Janssens, 1834-1856
By: edited by William H. Ellison and Francis Price. [Translated by Francis Price]
Contributors: Ellison, William H.; Price, Francis.
Series: Huntington Library publications
Publisher: Huntington Library
Published: 1953
Place of publication: San Marino, Calif
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Ethnic groups -- California.; Law and politics -- California.; Agriculture -- California.; California -- History.
Description: In 1825, Victor Janssens (1817-1894) and his French-Belgian family sailed to Mexico. Nine years later he joined the Padrés expedition of colonists in California, where he was part of the colony at Sonoma. A rancher at Santa Fé for many years, he moved to Santa Barbara in 1856. The life and adventures of Don Agustín Janssens (1953) is based on a memoir that Janssens contributed to the archives of historian Hubert Howe Bancroft. It was not translated and published until nearly sixty years after his death. He describes the Revolution of 1836 and the personalities and allegiances of the local landholders and discusses the problems of Native American tribes. With secularization of the mission, Janssens becomes administrator of San Juan Capistrano; under the U.S. government, a judge.
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Bibliography: p. 155-160.
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