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As he states, he collected romances from the true Californios, mostly from the Monterey region.
In Angustias de la Guerra, Ord’s Occurrences in Hispanic California, she describes some customs, but her work was not intended to preserve for history the way of life of the Californios.
He equated Spanish folk songs with the romantic past of the Californios and Mexicans and felt almost a nostalgic fascination for early California history and the era of the large ranchos.
Espinosa collected many romances from Californios in the 1920s.
During the U.S.-Mexican war of 1846–1848 the uncivil treatment of Mexicans and Californios and the public conviction in the righteousness of the war are cited as examples of how Mexico was disrespected by Americans.