Illustrations: Stations fot eh cross, no. 4 -- Stations of the Cross, no. 6 -- Mural depicting Indians picking grapes -- Wall design depicting an Indian hunting a deer -- "California Vaqueros Returned from Chase," 1854 -- Mission San Gabriel in 1833, by Ferdinand Deppe -- Detail of Mission San Gabriel in 1833 -- Detail of Mission San Gabriel in 1833 -- "Californians Throwing the Lasso" -- "Grizzly Bear Hunt" (1858) -- "Bull Fight (after High Mass) at Mission Dolores" -- Picking prickly pears near San Fernando -- Pico and Indians at Rancho San Fernando -- Andres Pico at Ex-mission San Fernando -- Los Angeles in 1853.
Contents
Working the land -- Missionary intrusion -- Competing institutions -- Missionary expansion -- Urban magnet -- New management -- Emancipation and secularizaiton -- Urban unrest -- Land of opportunity -- Skilled labor -- Aftermath -- Violent vineyards -- A useful people