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049: Alta California in 1834 Part 1: Bear and Bull Fights · California Frontier

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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: A few weeks ago.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: I was on a short vacation with my family in solving.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: One of our, um, happy places, love going down to solving.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And also in the central coast of California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And, uh, there's also mission Sunday ness there.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So there's a lot of history.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: In any way I was visiting, solving with my family.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And while we were there.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: I love to go to bookstores and especially use bookstores.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And I happen to cross a place called the book loft.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So shout out to book loft.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: If you happen to be listening here.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And wouldn't, you know it, but they have a great section of books, especially secondhand books.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: On California history.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And I came across a small little volume called three memoirs of Mexican California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Have it right here.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: If you're watching.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Three memoirs of Mexican, California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Evidently, this was a.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Limited edition released that was produced for the friends of the Bancroft library.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Now the Bancroft library is.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: The library on the campus of UC Berkeley, that houses so many.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Documents.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Relative to the history of California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: I mean, It's an, it's an internationally known archive, but.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: But it has a great.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Great.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Foundation of documents from early California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Anyway, in this little addition.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: It has three.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: I titled well, okay.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: It's called memoirs of Mexican, California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Three memoirs of Mexican, California, as I mentioned.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And they are memoirs of people.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Who.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Lived in.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Alta California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And they were dictated.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: To the guys who worked for the historian, Hubert, how Bancroft, who was gathering at the end of the 19th century.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: He was trying to gather together as many oral testimonies of people who had lived through the Spanish and Mexican eras.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Right.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And as I mentioned, this was mainly during the 1870s, I think, into the 1880s.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And the first recollection in this.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Book is by a man named Carlos Ihara.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Oh, Ehab.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Hi, who came to California in 1834.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And before I get into more about him, I just want to give credit to the translator as a translator myself, we often don't get enough credit.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: But.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: The person, the, these memoirs.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: We're obviously.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Taken down in Spanish.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And then this is a translation of them.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And the English translations were done, by a person.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Named, Let's see.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Oh, yeah.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Vivian Fisher.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And others.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So I want to definitely give credit to her and to her collaborators.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Perhaps over the next few weeks, I'll read excerpts from these memoirs.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: I think they're really interesting.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Because they.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Give us a great glimpse into.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: The Rancho era in California right now.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: They're probably not a hundred percent.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Reliable.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Because they are memoirs.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: They are the recollections of somebody.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Who probably was a child at the time that he witnessed these things.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And, and so.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: From a certain standpoint, they have to be taken with a grain of salt.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: But from a, from another standpoint, they really do.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Provide us important information that you're not going to find in many places.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So let's talk about Carlos N E.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Who is the person who is recollections, I'm going to excerpt for you today.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Carlos.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And he had arrived in California and Alto, California in 1834 with his uncle Jose Medea.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Who was a, a.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Wealthy individual from Holly SCO in Mexico right now.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Jose mighty a HUD.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: HUD was tasked along with, Another.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Well known influential individual in Mexico.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Who was hosted media.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Part of this, right?
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: They were tasked.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: To bring other Mexican citizens.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: To colonize.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: The recently secularized mission lands in Alta California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So there were a lot of lands.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: It had been secularized and the Mexican government really wanted to solidify.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: The presence of Mexicans.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: In Alta, California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Solidify it's.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Status as a Mexican territory.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: If you remember, especially during Spanish times and even.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: You know for many years, It Alta California, even though.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: It was part of the empire was very far away from the center from the metropolis.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And so people had developed the Kelly Ford Yos had developed their own sort of.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: A particular identity.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And so.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And sort of an independent mindset.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So this, this colonizing effort was one that happened in the mid 1830s to try and, Solidify the ties between Mexico and Alta California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Well, it didn't go so well.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And, Eventually, and there were a lot of problems with the people who came north.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And eventually the Kelly fornia is wound up expelling.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Many of them.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Back to Mexico and, and, Jose Maria.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: He wound up returning New Mexico, although he did come back.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: To Alta California just before the U S takeover.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: But anyway, we're talking about Carlos, his nephew.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And Carlos.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Was just a boy when he came.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And accompanied his uncle.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: But when his testimony was given.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: He in 1887, he was living in the Pueblo of San Jose.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Right.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So he's living in.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Or better yet?
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: 1877.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: This was the city of San Jose, California.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Right.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And so he gives details about.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Day-to-day life and customs of the California's.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: In the 1830s.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Based on his childhood recollections.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: I find them particularly fascinating.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And I hope to read, as I mentioned, several excerpts from them over the next few weeks.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: But today we are going to begin his recollections.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: With some of the types of entertainment.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: That, The California has enjoyed.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: In particular.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Some of the more violent forms of entertainment, including a bear and bull fights, which you may have heard of.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So be advised there was a little bit of violence in here.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: And we'll also hear about the song and dance of the California frontier.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: So enjoy.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: As we begin, Don Carlos E.
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  RODECaster Duo Main Stereo & Elgato Virtual Camera-1: Hers usages and customs of the Californias.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: When I touched the port of San Diego in 1834.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: I was very surprised to see the residents with hair as long as data women.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And made into a braid.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Which fell over their shoulders or was put up carefully into the crown of their hats.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Now.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Just as a side note, you may have heard other people commenting on this famous long braid of the California's.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: There's a, there's a pretty well-known testimony of a woman named Quana Machado who grew up in San Diego.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And she talks about her father, who was a soldier who wore his hair in this long braid.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Right.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And, and in fact Mexican authorities.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: After independence, outlawed that braid.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: In the army, like it was no longer.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Considered a legitimate part of the army, a uniform.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: So.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: These hats.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: He's talking about the hats that the Kelly Ford Neil's war were rather course.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: With the brims, very broad and the crown seven or eight inches tall.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: So that they looked like a pyramid.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Truncated by a horizontal plane.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Around this, they always tied a band.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: In the form of a ribbon.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Or a silk or cotton handkerchief.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Either black or colored.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: They always wore the hat tipped forward so that it covered most of the forehead.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: They were very fond of writing horseback.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And the saddles.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Or trappings, which they used attracted attention.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Chiefly due to the stirrups.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Composed of six or seven circles of sole leather of different diameters.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Placed one above the other.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The largest being approximately two feet in diameter.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The spurs also where to course.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And generally the WRAL, the WRAL is the.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The revolving disc this at the end of a spur.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The RAL, which was five or six inches in diameter.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: I was equipped with five or six spikes.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: They were never seen riding at the horses pace.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: But at a Gallop.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Or a top speed, even if the distance were only 20 or 25 yards.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Their clothing generally consisted of a shirt.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Fastened with bands of cloth instead of buttons.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: A short woolen or linen jacket.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Trousers open down the sides.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Hi boots.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Which never lacked the indispensable stiletto or knife.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Or shoes of colored Shami.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Now, Shami, as you may know, it's a.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: As a soft.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Leather.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: That's at least these days usually made of sheep skin or lamb skin.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And the Shammy is actually.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: A type of mountain goat that lives, In Europe and other parts of the world.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: So they either wore boots or shoes of color, Shami embroidered with white, a Gavi thread.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And finished off with a slightly upturned point.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Which were called Cheese.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Abroad red band at the waist.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And one, two or three kerchiefs.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Of different colors tied about the throat.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Or crossed from the throat down under one arm or around the ribs.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The women.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: More tunics of Calico.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Generally blue.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Always long in spite of the age of the individual.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: On their heads.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: They wore a kerchief of black silk.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Doubled into various folds and bound around the head.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: In the manner of a turbine.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The footwear was of Shami.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: With a more or less high heel.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And the tip of the shoe turned upward.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: That's an interesting.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Image, not just the men.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: But the women and how they wore.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The scarves.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Kurt chiefs.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: He calls them.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And then their footwear, right.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: At the time in 1834, I was around eight years old.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: As soon as I was over my seasickness, which was after two days.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: I went to a shop to buy some sweets.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: I noticed that the crystallized sugar.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Was mixed with mashed potatoes to bring a better profit.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Since they would make two lobes of sugar from one.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And so obtain better results.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: That's really interesting.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: So they had these kinds of sugar candies.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: But they mixed them.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: With mashed potatoes in order to.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: To, to make it last longer or to.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: To have more to sell.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The bread was very heavy.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And I could only eat it from necessity.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: They also sold some round loaves fried in beef, Greece.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Seven or eight inches in diameter.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And an inch thick.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Wow.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: That sounds very filling.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: I have to say.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Once I went out of the port to a secluded place to take a bath.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: I saw that some families.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: We're camped there.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And found out that they were California's.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: He would come to wash.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And that they were accustomed when they went for that purpose to camp someplace and take a long provisions for six, eight or more days.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: I also noted that those who based.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Instead of using soap for their head and body.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Used a clay.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: That was right there.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And which was known by the name of soap ball.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: I to use that clay.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And found that it gave better results perhaps then soap.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Not aware of what soap ball might be.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: If.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: If someone is please write to me and enlightened me.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The largest part of the tasks was entrusted to the women.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: They busied themselves with their domestic duties.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Cut the wood necessary for the meal.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Sowed in their gardens.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The seeds indispensable to the household.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Using the whole.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Pick.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Shovel.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Et cetera.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And went to the waterholes.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: To wash under an Arbor, which they themselves made.
• 15:58
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The men on the other hand, Spent their lives on horseback.
• 16:03
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Riding through the fields.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Last sewing or killing cattle.
• 16:09
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Then they would take a piece of meat home.
• 16:12
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And in doing so they were very well satisfied.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And the women.
• 16:17
  Damian Bacich's video recording: We're very happy and grateful.
• 16:21
  Damian Bacich's video recording: So the picture here is, is one of.
• 16:25
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Definitely the women doing the.
• 16:27
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The household chores, the daily grind.
• 16:31
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And the men were basically out on horseback.
• 16:34
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Getting meat, bringing home.
• 16:36
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Bringing home the.
• 16:38
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Being on the beach, they weren't bringing them the bacon.
• 16:40
  Damian Bacich's video recording: They were bringing home the beef.
• 16:42
  Damian Bacich's video recording: But very interesting.
• 16:45
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Now here, he's going to talk about Santa Barbara.
• 16:49
  Damian Bacich's video recording: That's that's where he was.
• 16:51
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The same year while I was in Santa Barbara.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The day of the patron, Saint of the mission.
• 16:57
  Damian Bacich's video recording: St Barbara.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Arrived.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Days in advance.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: They began to talk of the festivities of that day.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And make the corresponding preparations.
• 17:10
  Damian Bacich's video recording: When the day arrived.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: It was celebrated in the following way.
• 17:14
  Damian Bacich's video recording: So, this is how.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The patron feast.
• 17:19
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Of.
• 17:20
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The mission and the city of Santa Barbara was celebrated.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: In the morning, there was a solemn mass.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: The peeling of bells.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Salvos.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: Cannon shots.
• 17:34
  Damian Bacich's video recording: When they had cannons, et cetera.
• 17:38
  Damian Bacich's video recording: In the afternoon.
• 17:40
  Damian Bacich's video recording: There was a bull fight.
• 17:41
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And a bear fight, which took place in the corral used for the rodeo.
• 17:48
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The manner of bullfighting was the following.
• 17:53
  Damian Bacich's video recording: They put a spirited bull with full horns in the ring.
• 17:58
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Then the California's would begin to go in on horseback.
• 18:03
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And turn him around with their cloaks.
• 18:06
  Damian Bacich's video recording: At the beginning of the fight.
• 18:09
  Damian Bacich's video recording: They would be timid.
• 18:11
  Damian Bacich's video recording: But afterwards they would play with him.
• 18:14
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Now embracing him when he was not on guard.
• 18:18
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Now petting his cheeks.
• 18:20
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Or pulling out his eyebrows.
• 18:22
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Now mounting him or pulling his tail.
• 18:26
  Damian Bacich's video recording: It would keep playing with him.
• 18:28
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Until both were on very good terms.
• 18:31
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Then they would chase him out of the corral.
• 18:35
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Giving him the plane.
• 18:36
  Damian Bacich's video recording: To go wherever he wished.
• 18:39
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Several California's always went after him.
• 18:43
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Chasing him.
• 18:44
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And bringing him down by twisting his tail.
• 18:48
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Until he was far enough away from the corral.
• 18:52
  Damian Bacich's video recording: In the afternoon they fought four or five bowls.
• 18:57
  Damian Bacich's video recording: As many as time permitted.
• 19:00
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Whenever some Indians were somewhat intoxicated with Brandy.
• 19:05
  Damian Bacich's video recording: They would get into the corral to fight.
• 19:08
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And then it was very funny.
• 19:10
  Damian Bacich's video recording: To see their agility and escaping the thrust of the bowls.
• 19:16
  Damian Bacich's video recording: They would stand a very short distance from the horns of the bull.
• 19:20
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And within astounding suppleness of body.
• 19:23
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Almost without moving from the place.
• 19:26
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Would avoid the thrusts with violent movements of the body.
• 19:32
  Damian Bacich's video recording: They had absolutely no fear of the beast.
• 19:36
  Damian Bacich's video recording: They looked upon him.
• 19:38
  Damian Bacich's video recording: As though he were one of their fellow companions.
• 19:41
  Damian Bacich's video recording: With whom they were playing amicably.
• 19:44
  Damian Bacich's video recording: At the beginning, the middle or the end of the bull baiting.
• 19:49
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The fight between the bull and the bear took place.
• 19:53
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Now, this is.
• 19:55
  Damian Bacich's video recording: This is what you've probably heard of numerous times to.
• 19:58
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The bear and bull fights that would take place in Alta, California.
• 20:05
  Damian Bacich's video recording: This was accomplished in this way.
• 20:08
  Damian Bacich's video recording: With a Lariat or leather thong of sufficient strength.
• 20:12
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Paul of the bear was tied with one end.
• 20:16
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And the foreleg of the bowl with the other.
• 20:22
  Damian Bacich's video recording: When the Lariat was taught.
• 20:24
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The beasts were about five or six yards apart.
• 20:28
  Damian Bacich's video recording: To avoid any mishap.
• 20:30
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The bear was tied by a leg to a post.
• 20:33
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Placed there for the purpose.
• 20:37
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Moreover.
• 20:39
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Five or more.
• 20:40
  Damian Bacich's video recording: California's stayed in the ring with their Larry.
• 20:42
  Damian Bacich's video recording: It's ready to last.
• 20:43
  Damian Bacich's video recording: So the bear.
• 20:45
  Damian Bacich's video recording: In case he should break the rope that held it.
• 20:48
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And start to charge the spectators.
• 20:51
  Damian Bacich's video recording: These ladder that is the spectators.
• 20:54
  Damian Bacich's video recording: We're on the enclosure fence or outer circle.
• 20:57
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Very happy at the site of such a cruel spectacle.
• 21:01
  Damian Bacich's video recording: So.
• 21:02
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Carlos.
• 21:04
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Is, um, recently arrived from in Mexico.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: And he finds this sort of, um, spectacle.
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  Damian Bacich's video recording: This, this sort of sport.
• 21:17
  Damian Bacich's video recording: To be kind of cruel.
• 21:20
  Damian Bacich's video recording: At one side of this corral was erected a kind of platform.
• 21:23
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Covered with branches.
• 21:25
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Which was used by the director of the mission and some of the prominent families.
• 21:31
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The fight was decided either by the bull or the bear.
• 21:36
  Damian Bacich's video recording: It generally being the first who saw his opponent lying dead upon the blood.
• 21:42
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Be sprinkled earth.
• 21:44
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Two or three days before the celebration, the California's would go out on their horses.
• 21:50
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And provided with good lariats.
• 21:53
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Search the woods for a bear or bears.
• 21:58
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The method of hunting them.
• 22:00
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Was to lasso them with several lariats and afterwards pull them down.
• 22:06
  Damian Bacich's video recording: If there were several bears.
• 22:08
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And they were well tied.
• 22:10
  Damian Bacich's video recording: They were put on big Drai's and by means of one or more yokes of oxen taken to the mission.
• 22:18
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Where the fight was to take place.
• 22:21
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Uh, wagon accompanied them.
• 22:23
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Provided with water.
• 22:25
  Damian Bacich's video recording: With which they refresh the bear along the way.
• 22:28
  Damian Bacich's video recording: So that he would not die.
• 22:31
  Damian Bacich's video recording: So that's an account.
• 22:33
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The bull and bear fights in Alta, California.
• 22:37
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Now.
• 22:38
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And the next one, we're going to talk a little bit about.
• 22:43
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Or better yet.
• 22:44
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Carlos is going to talk a little bit about dancing and singing.
• 22:48
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Among the Kelly Ford and yes.
• 22:51
  Damian Bacich's video recording: A little bit less violent.
• 22:53
  Damian Bacich's video recording: But I think you'll find it also very interesting because much of what he talks about.
• 23:00
  Damian Bacich's video recording: It has to do with, um, Songs and dances that are also, or also popular.
• 23:07
  Damian Bacich's video recording: In Mexico during this time period.
• 23:10
  Damian Bacich's video recording: So.
• 23:11
  Damian Bacich's video recording: With that I'll leave you.
• 23:13
  Damian Bacich's video recording: And hopefully you'll be ready to listen to the next installment.
• 23:18
  Damian Bacich's video recording: Of.
• 23:19
  Damian Bacich's video recording: The usages and customs of the Kelly Ford Neos.
• 23:22
  Damian Bacich's video recording: According to Dawn cardless, N E.