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ix Acknowledgments This work is the product of collaboration by numerous people and institutions . I would like to thank The Bancroft Library at the University of California , Berkeley for giving me permission to publish José María Amador’s Memorias sobre la Historia de California. I would like to express my appreciation to Larry Cenotto, archivist of the Amador County Archives and to the personnel at the San Jose History Museum for their assistance in locating materials on José María Amador. I also would like to recognize the University of Houston’s Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project for a Grant-in-Aid that I received in 1996 to begin the process of transcribing and editing Amador’s work. I would like to thank Violeta Salinas for her dedication in transcribing and editing the entire original Spanish manuscript of the José María Amador Memorias. I would also like to thank Norbertha Torres for her help in revising the grammar in the Spanish version of the memoir so that it would conform to modern standards. I am very grateful to Karina Parra for providing much-needed assistance in helping to edit several versions of the entire manuscript and for her help in preparing the final Spanish and English drafts for publication; she supported this project from the beginning of the process to the end. Furthermore, I would like to recognize Phillip Tabera and Melody Knutson for reading and offering many helpful comments on several drafts of the memoir. I would like to express my gratitude to ErlindaYañez and José C. Gonzales for providing me with much-needed technical assistance. I would like to thank Jeff Paul, Simón Domínguez, José Carrasco, Joel Franks, and Jesús Martínez-Saldaña for their encouragement to complete this work and other research on the Mexicans of Northern California. I would like to recognize Jaime E. Rodriguez, my mentor and friend, for inspiring me to research the history of México. Finally, I would like to thank my family for their steady emotional support. Las gracias van para mis padres Magdaleno y Esther; para mi hermanos: Ignacio, para Carmelo y su esposa Rosa, para Juan y su esposa Lorraine, para Hugo y su esposa Gloria; y también para mi 1 Californio Voices FOB 1/26/05 2:46 PM Page ix sobrina Magdalena y mis sobrinos, Juan Ignacio, Moctezuma, Salomón, Samuel, Hugo, y Xavier Omar. I would like to extend my gratitude to the press readers whose insightful observations and valuable recommendations no doubt contributed immensely to the quality of this work. I would like to thank the director of University of North Texas Press, Ron Chrisman, for agreeing to publish this manuscript in a very unique format, as a truly bilingual historical work. Lastly, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Roberto Calderón, editor of the Al Filo series, for having faith in this project from the time I first proposed it to him and for pushing it through the lengthy publication process. x Memorias Sobre la Historia de California 1 Californio Voices FOB 1/26/05 2:46 PM Page x ...

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