Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend

In this thoroughly researched biography, anthropologist and archaeologist Betty Goerke has pieced together a portrait of the life of a fugitive leader, using mission records, ethnographies, explorers and missionaries diaries and correspondence, and other material. Chief Marin became a leader of Native resistance to Spanish colonization at that critical time when, as the mission system collapsed, California would once again be transformed, this time by Americans. With marvelous detail, Goerke paints a picture of the California of Marin s time.