| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma. By Stephen W. Silliman. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004. xxii + 253 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

In Lost Laborers in Colonial California: Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma, anthropologist Stephen W. Silliman presents the results of his extensive archaeological work at Mariano G. Vallejo's Rancho Petaluma. As Silliman recounts, in 1823 Father José Altimira established Mission San Francisco Solano in the Sonoma Valley north of San Francisco. Indian laborers made the mission agriculturally productive until 1834, when the mission was secularized and turned into a pueblo. Vallejo presided over the downfall of the mission, and in return for his services he received Rancho Petaluma, which then encompassed some 66,000 acres west of Sonoma Valley. Vallejo held the rancho until 1857 (p. 76).

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