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Indians and Intruders in Central California: 1769-1849. (book reviews)

American Indian Quarterly, The,  March, 1994  by Sandos, James A.

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A tightly focused scholarly inquiry into a little-known area can yield significant new insights. Too tightly focused, however, and the study can fail to give its readers the proper context. Both of these things happen in George Phillips' Indians and Intruders. Phillips has culled the documents compiled by Sherburne F.

Cook on Spanish and Mexican expeditions into the great Central Valley. He also has drawn on depositions and documents from sources as diverse as the papers of John Peabody Harrington and John Sutter, U.S. land claims in California, U.S. Forest Service files, the field ...

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