Guerra family collection, 1752-1955 (bulk 1806-1886) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The collection consists of facsimile copies of the personal, political, land and legal papers of Don José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega and his son Pablo de la Guera. The collection deals with the following subjects: Bear Flag Revolt, business, cattle trade, commerce, ranches and land grants in California, Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, Mission Santa Barbara and the other California missions, the Santa Barbara Presidio, California Indians, California politics and government, and women in California. Many other prominent Californians are represented in the collection: Juan Bautista Alvarado, Juan Bandini, José Castro, John Charles Frémont, Pablo de la Guerra, José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega, Henry W. Halleck, William E.P. Hartnell, Thomas O. Larkin, Mariano Payeras, Pedro Pérez Muñoz, Pío Pico, Alfred Robinson, William Tecumseh Sherman, Pablo Vicente de Solá. There is a separate sub-collection formed by the Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo papers [FAC 667 (1126-1188)], which includes 90 letters by Mexican-American author María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. The originals of the Guerra family Collection are at the Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library. Most of the material is in Spanish. The collection includes a subject index as well as a descriptive calendar