The two volume set Recuerdos: Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769–1849 was written by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a military and political figure who lived through the Spanish, Mexican, and early United States years of California.

In the volumes, Vallejo accounts the pushback against the U.S. conquest of California and the military’s role in settling California.

The History lab has Volume I and Volume II.