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CHAPTER I - SPANISH EXPLORATIONS AND
DISCOVERITES |
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- Romance
and Reality
- The Seven Cities of Cibola
- The Myth of Quivera
- El Dorado
- Sandoval's Isle of the Amazons
- Mutineers Discover the Peninsula of Lower California
- Origin of the Name California
- Cortes's Attempts at Colonization
- Discover of the Rio Colorado
- Coronado's Explorations
- Ulloa's Voyage |
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CHAPTER II. - ALTA OR NUEVA CALIFORNIA |
37 |
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- Voyage of
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
- Enters the Bay of San Diego in Alta California
- Discovers the Islands of San Salvador and Vitoria
- The Bay of Smokes and Fires
- The Santa Barbara Islands
- Reaches Cape Mendocino
- His Death and Burial on the Island of San Miguel
- Ferrolo Continues the Voyage
- Drake, the Sea King of Devon
- His Hatred of the Spaniard
- Sails into the South Sea
- Plunders the Spanish Settlements of the South Pacific
- Vain Search for the Straits of Anian
- Refits His Ships in a California Harbor
- Takes Possession of the Country for the English Queen
- Sails across the Pacific Ocean to Escape the Vengeance of the Spaniards
- Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeño Attempts
a Survey of the California Coast
- Loss of the San Agustin
- Sufferings of the Shipwrecked Mariners
- Sebastian Viscaino's Explorations
- Makes No New Discoveries
- Changes the Names Given by Cabrillo to the Bays and Islands
- Some Boom Literature
- Failure of His Colonization Scheme
- His Death. |
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CHAPTER III. - COLONIZATION OF ALTA CALIFORNIA |
43 |
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- Jesuit
Missions of Lower California
- Father Kino or Kuhn's Explorations
- Expulsion of the Jesuits
- Spain's Decadence
- Her Northwestern Possessions Threatened by the Russians and English
- The Franciscans to Christianize and Colonize Alta California
- Galvez Fits Out Two Expeditions
- Their Safe Arrival at San Diego
- First Mission Founded
- Portola's Explorations
- Fails to Find Monterey Bay
- Discovers the Bay of San Francisco
- Return of the Explorers
- Portola's Second Expedition
- Founding of San Carlos Mission and the Presidio of Monterey |
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CALIFORNIA IV. - ABORIGINES OF CALIFORNIA |
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-
Inferiority of the California Indian
- No Great Tribes
- Indians of the San Gabriel Valley
- Hugo Reid's Description of Their Government
- Religion and Customs
- Indians of the Santa Barbara Channel
- Their God Chupu?
- Northern Indians
- Indian Myths and Traditions. |
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CHAPBER V. - FRANCISCAN MISSIONS OF ALTA
CALIFORNIA |
56 |
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- Founding
of San Diego de Alcalá
- San Carlos Barromeo
- San Antonio de Padua
- San Gabriel Arcangel
- San Luis Obispo
- San Francisco de Asis
- San Juan Capistrano
- Santa Clara
- San Buenaventura
- Santa Barbara
- La Purisima Concepcion
- Santa Cruz
- La Soledad
- San Josė
- San Juan Bautista
- San Miguel
- San Fernando del Rey, San Luis Missionary Establishments
- Houses of the Neophytes
- Their Uncleanliness. |
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CHAPTER VI. - PRESIDIOS OF CALIFORNIA |
66 |
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- Presidio
in Colonization
- Founding of San Diego
- General Plan of the Presidio
- Founding of Monterey
- Rejoicing over the Event
- Hard Times at the Presidio
- Bear Meat Diet
- Two Hundred Immigrants for the Presidio
- Founding of the Presidio of San Francisco
- Anza's Overland Route from Sonora
- Quarrel with Rivera
- Anza's Return to Sonora
- Founding of Santa Barbara
- Disappointment of Father Serra
- Quarrel of the Captain with the Missionaries over Indian Laborers
- Soldiers' Dreary Life at the Presidios. |
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CHAPTER VII. - PUEBLOS |
73 |
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-
Pueblo Plan of Colonization
- Necessity for Agricultural Colonies
- Governor Filipe de Neve Selects Pueblo Sites
- San Josė Founded
- Named for the Patron Saint of California
- Area of the Spanish Pueblo
- Government Supplies to Colonists
- Founding of the Pueblo of Los Angeles
- Names of the Founders
- Probable Origin of the Name
- Subdivisions of Pueblo Lands
- Lands Assigned to Colonists
- Founding of Branciforte, the last Spanish Pueblo. |
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CHAPTER VIII. - THE PASSING OF SPAIN'S
DOMINATION |
78 |
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- Spain's
Exclusiveness
- The First Foreign Ship in Monterey Bay
- Vancouver's Visit
- Government Monopoly of the Fur Trade
- American Smugglers
- The Memorias
- Russian Aggression
- Famine at Sitka
- Rezanoff's Visit
- A Love Affair and Its Tragic Ending
- Fort Ross
- Failure of the Russian Colony Scheme
- The War of Mexican Independence
- Sola the Royalist Governor
- California Loyalists
- The Year of Earthquakes
- Bouchard the Privateer Burns Monterey
- The Lima Tallow Ships
- Hard Times
- No Money and Little Credit
- The Friars Supreme |
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CHAPTER IX. - FROM EMPIRE TO REPUBLIC |
82 |
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-
Sola Calls for Troops
- Cholas Sent Him
- Success of the Revolutionists
- Plan of Iguala
- The Three Guarantees
- The Empire
- Downfall of Augustin I.
- Rise of the Republic
- Bitter Disappointments of Governor Sola and the Friars
- Disloyalty of the Mission Friars
- Refuse to Take the Oath of Allegiance
- Arguella, Governor
- Advent of Foreigners
- Coming of the Hide Droghers
- Indian Outbreak |
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CHAPTER X. - FIRST DECADE OF MEXICAN RULE |
87 |
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-
Echeandia Governor
- Make San Diego His Capital
- Padres of the Four southern Missions Take the Oath of Allegiance to the
Republic
- Friars of the Northern Missions Contumacious
- Arrest of Padre Sarria
- Expulsion of the Spaniards
- Clandestine Departure of Padres Ripoll and Altimira
- Exile of Padre Martinez
- The Diputacion
- Qucer Legislation
- The Mexican Congress Attempts to Make California a Penal Colony
- Liberal Colonization Laws
- Captain Jedediah S. Smith, the Pioneer of Overland Travel, Arrives
- Is Arrested
- First White Man to Cross the Sierra Nevadas
- Coming of the Fur Trappers
- The Pattie Party
- Imprisoned Encheandia
- Death of the Elder Pattie
- John Ohio Pattie's Bluster
- Peg Leg Smith
- Ewing Young
- The Solis Revolution
- A Bloodless Battle
- Echeandia's Mission Secularization Decree
- He is Hated by the Friars
- Dios y Liberted
- The Fitch Romance |
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CHAPTER XI. - REVOLUTIONS - THE HIJAR COLONISTS |
93 |
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-
Victoria, Governor
- His Unpopularity
- Defeated by the Southern Revolutionists
- Abdicates and is Shipped out of the Country
- Pio Pico, Governor
- Echeandia, Governor of Abajenos (Lowers)
- Zamarano of the Arribanos (Uppers)
- Dual Governors and a No Man's Land
- War Clouds
- Los Angeles the Political Storm Center
- Figueroa Appointed Gefe Political
- The Dual Governors Surrender
- Figueroa the Right Man in the Place
- Hijar's Colonization Scheme
- Padres, the Promoter
- Hijar to be Gefe Politico
- A Famous Ride
- A Cobbler Heads a Revolution
- Hijar and Padres Arreested and Deported
- Disastrous End of the Compania Cosmopolitana
- Death of Figueroa |
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CHAPTER XII. - THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE
MISSIONS |
96 |
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-
Sentiment vs. History
- The Friar's Right to the Mission Lands Only That of Occupation
- Governor Borica's Opinion of the Mission System
- Title to the Mission Domains
- Viceroy Bucarili's Instructions
- Secularization
- Decree of the Spanish Cortes in 1813
- Mission Land Monopoly
- No Land for Settlers
- Secularization Plans, Decrees and Reglamentos
- No Attempt to Educate the Neophytes
- Destruction of Mission Property, ruthless Slaughter of Cattle
- Emancipation in Theory and in Practice
- Depravity of the Neophytes
- What Did Six Decades of Mission Rule accomplish?
- What Became of the Mission Estates
- The Passing of the Neophytes. |
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CHAPTER XIII. - THE FREE AND SOVEREIGN STATE OF
ALTA CALIFORNIA |
101 |
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-
Castro, Gefe Politico
- Nicolas Gutierrez, Comanndante and Political Chief
- Chico, "Bobernandor Propritario"
- Makes Himself Unpopular
- His Hatred of Foreigners
- Makes Trouble Wherever He Goes
- Shipped Back to Mexico
- Gutierrez Again Political Chief
- Centralism His Nemesis
- Revolt of Castro and Alvarado
- Gutierrez Besieged
- Surrenders and Leaves the Country
- Declaration of California's Independence
- El Estado Libre y Soberano de La Alta California
- Alvarado Declared Governor
- The Ship of State Launched
- Encounters a Storm
- The South Opposes California's Independence
- Los Angeles Made a City and the Capital of the Territory by the Mexican
Congress
- The Capital Question the Cause of Opposition
- War Between the North and South
- Battle of San Buenaventura
- Los Angeles Captured
- Peace in the Free State
- Carlos Carrillo, Governor of the South
- War Again
- Defeat of Carrillo at Las Flores
- Peace
- Alvarado Appointed Governor by the Supreme Government
- Release of Alvarado's Prisoners of State
- Exit the Free State. |
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CHAPTER XIV. - DELINE AND FALL OF MEXICAN
DOMINATION |
108 |
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-
Hijos del Pais in Power
- The Capital Question
- The Foreigners Becoming a Menace
- Graham Affair
- Micheltorena Appointed Governor
- His Cholo Army
- Commodore Jones Captures Monterey
- The Governor and the Commodore Meet at Los Angeles
- Extravagant Demands of Micheltorena
- Revolt Against Micheltorena and His Army of Chicken Thieves
- Sutter and Graham Join Forces with Micheltorena
- The Picos Unite With Alvarado and Castro
- Battle of Cahuenga
- Micheltorena and His Cholos Deported
- Pico, Governor
- Castro Rebellious
- The Old Feud Between the North and the South
- Los Angeles the Capital
- Plots and Counter Plots
- Pico Made Governor by President Herrera |
- Immigration from the United States |
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CHAPTER XV. - MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT - HOMES AND
LIFE OF THE CALIFORNIANS |
114 |
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-
The "Muy Hustre Ayuntamiento," or Municipal
Council
- Its Unlimited Power, Queer Customs and Quaint Usages
- Blue Laws
- How Office Sought the Man and Caught Him
- Architecture of the Mission Age Not Aesthetic
- Dress of the Better Class
- Undress of Neophyte and the Peon
- Fashions That Changed but Once in Fifty Years
- Filial Respect
- Honor Thy Father and Mother
- Economy in Government
- When Men's Pleasures and Vices Paid the Cost of Governing
- No Fire Department
- No Paid Police
- No Taxes. |
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CHAPTER XVI. - TERRITORIAL EXPANSION BY CONQUEST |
119 |
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-
The Mexican War
- More Slave Territory Needed
- Hostilities Begun in Texas
- Trouble Brewing in California
- Fremont at Monterey
- Fremont and Castro Quarrel
- Fremont and His Men Depart
- Arrival of Lieutenant Gillespie
- Follows Fremont
- Fremont's Return
- The Bear Flag Revolt
- Seizure of Sonoma
- A Short-Lived Republic
- Commodore Sloat Seizes California
- Castro's Army Retreats Southward
- Meets Pico's Advancing Northward
- Retreat to Los Angeles
- Stockton and Fremont Invade the South
- Pico and Castro Vainly Attempt to arouse the People
- Pico's Humane Proclamation
- Flight of Pico and Castro
- Stockton Captures Los Angeles
- Issues a Proclamation
- Some Historical Mythes
- The First Newspaper Published in California |
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CHAPTER XVII. - REVOLT OF THE CALIFORNIANS. |
125 |
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-
Stockton Returns to His Ship and Fremont Leaves
for the North
- Captain Gillespie, Comandante, in the South
- Attempts Reforms
- Californians Rebel
- The Americans Besieges on Fort Hill
- Juan Flaca's Famous Ride
- Battle of Chino
- Wilson's Company Prisoners
- Americans Agree to Evacuate Los Angeles
- Retreat to San Pedro
- Cannon Thrown into the Bay
- Flores in Command of the Californians. |
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CHAPTER XVIII. - DEFEAT AND RETREAT OF MERVINE'S
MEN |
129 |
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-
Mervine, in Command of the Savannah, Arrives at
San Pedro
- Landing of the Troops
- Mervine and Gillespie Unite Their Forces
- On to Los Angeles
- Duvall's Log Book
- An Authentic Account of the March, Battle and Retreat
- Names of the Killed and Wounded
- Burial of the Dead on Dead Man's Island
- Names of the Commanding Officers
- Flores the Last Gefe Politico and Comandante General
- Jealousy of the Hijos de Pais
- Hard Times in the Old Pueblo |
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CHAPTER XIX. - FINAL CONQUEST OF CALIFORNIA |
133 |
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-
Affairs in the North
- Fremont's Battalion
- Battle of Natividad
- Bloodless Battle of Santa Clara
- End of the War in the North
- Stockton at San Pedro
- Carrillo's Strategy
- A Remarkable Battle
- Stockton Arrives at San Diego
- Building of a Fort
- Raid on the Ranchos
- The Flag Episode
- General Kearny arrives at Warner's Pass
- Battle of San Pasqual
- Defeat of Kearny
- Heavy Loss
- Relief Sent Him from San Diego
- Preparing for the Capture of Los Angeles
- The March
- Battle of Paso do Bartolo
- Battle of La Mesa
- Small Losses
- American Names of These Battles Misnomers |
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CHAPTER XX. - CAPTURE AND OCCUPATION OF THE
CAPITAL |
141 |
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-
Surrender of Los Angeles
- March of the Victors
- The Last Volley
- A Chilly Reception
- A Famous Scold
- On the Plaza
- Stockton's Headquarters
- Emory's Fort
- Fremont's Battalion at San Fernando
- The Flight of Flores
- Negotiations with General Pico
- Treaty of Cahuenga
- Its Importance
- Fremont's Battalion Enters the City
- Fremont, Governor
- Quarrel Between Kearny and Stockton
- Kearny Departs for San Diego and Stockton's Men for San Pedro |
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CHAPTER XX. - TRANSITION AND TRANSFORMATION |
144 |
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-
Surrender of Los Angeles
- March of the Victors
- The Last Volley
- A Chilly Reception
- A Famous Scold
- On the Plaza
- Stockton's Headquarters
- Emory's Fort
- Fremont's Battalion at San Fernando
- The Flight of Flores
- Negotiations with General Pico
- Treaty of Cahuenga
- Its Importance
- Fremont's Battalion Enters the City
- Fremont, Governor
- Quarrel Between Kearny and Stockton
- Kearny Departs for San Diego and Stockton's Men for San Pedro |
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CHAPTER XXI. - MEXICAN LAWS AND AMERICAN
OFFICIALS |
150 |
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-
Colonel Fremont in Command at Los Angeles
- The Mormon Battalion
- Its Arrival at San Louis Rey, Sent to Los Angeles
- General Kearny Governor at Monterey
- Rival Governors
- Col. R. B. Mason, Inspector of the Troops in California
- He Quarrels with Fremont
- Fremont Challenges Him
- Colonel Cooke Made Commander of the Military District of the South
- Fremont's Battalion Mustered Out
- Fremont Ordered to Report to Kearny
- Returns to the States with Kearney
- Placed Under Arrest
- Court-Martialed of a Fort
- Col. J. B. Stevenson Commands in the Southern District
- A Fourth of July Celebration
- The Fort Dedicated and Named Fort Moore
- The New York Volunteers
- Company F, Third U. S. Artillery, Arrives
- The Mormon Battalion Mustered Out
- Commodore Shubrick and General Kearny Jointly Issue a Proclamation to
the People
- Col. R. B. Mason, Military Governor of California
- A Policy of Conciliation
- Varela, Agitor and Revolutionist, Makes Trouble
- Overland Immigration Under Mexican Rule
- The First Train
- Dr. Marsh's Meanness
- The Fate of the Donner Party. |
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CHAPTER XXII. -
MEXICAN LAWS AND AMERICAN OFFICIALS |
150 |
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-
Richard A. Mason, Commander of the Military
Forces and Civil Governor of California
- Civil and Military Laws
- The First Trial by Jury
- Americanizing the People
- Perverse Electors and Contumacious Councilmen
- Absolute Alcaldes
- Nash at Sonoma and Bill Blackburn at Santa Cruz
- Queer Decisions
- El Canon Perido of Santa Barbara
- Ex-Governor Pio Pico Returns
- Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
- Peace Proclaimed
- The News Reaches California
- County Acquired by the Treaty
- The Volunteers Mustered Out. |
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CHAPTER XXIII. - GOLD!
GOLD! GOLD! |
155 |
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-
Traditions of Early Gold Discoveries in
California
- The First Authenticated Discovery
- Marshall's Discovery at Colomas
- Disputed Dates and Conflicting Stories About the Discovery
- Sutter's Account
- James W. Marshall
- His Story
- The News Travels Slowly
- First Newspaper Report
- The Rush Begins
- San Francisco Deserted
- The Star and the Californian Suspend Publications
- The News Spreads
- Sonorian Migration
- Oregonians Come
- The News Reaches the States
- A Tea Caddy Full of Gold at the War Office, Washington
- Seeing Is Believing
- Gold Hunters Come by Land and Sea
- The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
- Magical Growth of San Francisco
- The Dry Diggings
- Some Remarkable Yields
- Forty Dollars for a Butcher Knife
- Extent of the Gold Fields. |
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CHAPTER XXIV. -
MAKING A STATE |
162 |
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-
Bennett Riley, Governor
- Unsatisfactory Form of Government
- Semi-Civil and Semi-Military
- Congress Does Nothing
- The Slave-Holding Faction Prevents Action
- Growing Dissatisfaction
- Call for Convention
- Constitution Making
- The Great Seal
- Election of State Officers
- Peter H. Burnett, Governor
- Inauguration of a State Government
- The First Legislature
- A Self-Constituted State
- The Pro-Slavery Faction in Congress
- Oppose the Admission of California
- Defeat of the Obstructionists
- California Admitted into the Union
- Great Rejoicing
- A Magnificent Procession
- California Full Grown at Birth
- The California Question
- San Jose Loses the Capital
- Vallejo Wins
- Goes to Sacramento
- Comes to Benicia
- Capital Question in the Courts
- Sacramento Wins
- Capitol Building Begun in 1860
- Completed in 1869. |
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CHAPTER XXV. - THE ARGONAUTS |
169 |
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-
Who First Called Them Argonauts
- How They Came and From Where They Came
- Extent of the Gold Fields
- Mining Appliances
- Batėas, Gold Pans, Rockers, Long Toms, Sluices
- Gold Bluffs
- Kern River
- Frazer River
- Washoe
- Ho for Idaho!
- Social Leveling
- Capacity for Physical Labor the Standard
- Independency and Honesty of the Argonauts. |
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CHAPTER XXVI. - SAN FRANCISCO |
175 |
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-
The First House
- A Famous Fourth of July Celebration
- The Enterprise of Jacob P. Leese
- General Kearney's Decree for the Sale of Water Lots
- Alcalde Bartlett Changes the Name of the Town from Yerba Buena to San
Francisco
- Hostility of the Star to the Change
- Great Sale of Lots in the City of Francisca, now Benicia
- Its Boom Bursts
- Population of San Francisco September 4, 1847
- Vocations of Its Inhabitants
- Population March, 1848
- Vioget's Survey
- O'Farrell's Survey
- Wharves
- The First School House
- The Gold Discovery Depopulates the City
- Reaction
- Rapid Growth
- Description of the City in April, 1850
- Great Increase in Population
- How the People Lived and Labored
- Enormous Rents
- High Priced Real Estate
- Awful Streets
- Flour Sacks, Cooking Stove and Tobacco Box Sidewalk
- Ships for Houses
- The Six Great Fires
- The Boom of 1853
- The Burst of 1855
- Harry Meigs
- Steady Growth of the City |
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CHAPTER XXVII. - CRIME, CRIMINALS AND VIGILANCE
COMMITTEES |
182 |
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-
But Little Crime in California Under Spanish and
Mexican Rule
- The First Vigilance Committee of California
- The United Defenders of Public Safety
- Execution of Alispaz and Maria del Rosario Villa
- Advent of the Criminal Element
- Criminal Element in the Ascendency
- Incendiarism, Theft and Murder
- The San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1831
- Hanging of Jenkins
- A Case of Mistaken Identity
- Burdoe for Stuart
- Arrest, Trial and Hanging of Stuart
- Hanging of Whittaker and McKenzie
- The Committee Adjourns but Does Not Disband
- Its Work Approved
- Corrupt Officials
- James King of William Attacks Political Corruption in the Bulletin
- Richardson killed by Cora
- Seathing Editorials
- Murders and Thefts
- Attempts of Silence King
- King Exposes James P. Casey's State's Prison Record
- Cowardly Assassination of King by Casey
- Organization of the Vigilance Committee of 1856
- Fatal Mistake of the Herald
- Casey and Cora in the Hanes of the Committee
- Death of King
- Hanging of Casey and Cora
- Other Executions
- Law and Order Party
- Terry and His Chivalrous Friends
- They Are Glad to Subside
- Black List and Deportations
- The Augean Stale Cleaned
- The Committee's Grand Parade
- Vigilance Committees in Los Angeles
- Joaquin Murrieta and His Banditti
- Tiburcio Vasquez and His Gang. |
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CHAPTER XXVIII. -
FILIBUSTERS AD FILIBUSTERING |
193 |
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-
The Origin of Filibustering in California
- Raousset-Boulbon's Futile Schemes
- His Execution
- William Walker
- His Career as a Doctor, Lawyer and Journalist
- Recruits Filibusters
- Lands at La Paz
- His Infamous Conduct in Lower California
- Failure of His Scheme
- A Farcical Trial
- Lionized in San Francisco
- His Operations in Nicaragua
- Battles
- Decrees Slavery in Nicaragua
- Driven out of Nicaragua
- Tries Again
- Is Captured and Shot
- Crabb and His Unfortunate Expedition
- Massacre of the Misguided Adventurers
- Filibustering Ends When Secession Begins |
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CHAPTER
XXIX - FROM
GOLD TO GRAIN AND FRUITS |
199 |
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-
Mexican Farming
- But Little Fruit and Few Vegetables
- Crude Farming Implements
- The Agricultural Capabilities of California Underestimated
- Wheat the Staple in Central California
- Cattle in the South
- Gold in the North
- Big Profits in Grapes
- Orange Culture Begun in the South
- Apples, Peaches, Pears and Plums
- The Sheep Industry
- The Famine Years of 1863 and 1864 Bring Disaster to the Cattle Kings of
the South
- The Doom of Their Dynasty
- Improvement of Domestic Animals
- Exit the Mustang
- Agricultural Colonies |
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CHAPTER XXX - CIVIL WAR - LOYALTY AND DISLOYALTY |
204 |
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-
State Division and What Became of It
- Broderick's Early Life
- Arrival in California
- Enters the Political Arena
- Gwin-Latham Combination
- Firing on Fort Sumter
- State Loyal
- Treasonable Utterance
- A Pacific Republic
- Disloyalty Rampant in Southern California
- Union Sentiments Triumphant
- Confederate Sympathizer Silenced. |
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CHAPTER XXXI. - TRADE, TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION |
211 |
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-
Spanish Trade
- Fixed Prices
- No Cornering the Market
- Mexico's Methods of Trade
- The Hide Droghers
- Trade
- Ocean Commerce and Travel
- Overland Routes
- Overland Stage Routes
- Inland Commerce
- The Pony Express
- Stage Lines
- Pack Trains
- Camel Caravans
- The Telegraph and the Railroad
- Express Companies |
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CHAPTER XXXII - RAILROADS |
218 |
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-
Early Agitation of the Pacific Railroad Scheme
- The Pacific Railroad in Politics
- Northern Routes and Southern Routes
- First Railroad in California
- Pacific Railroad Bills in Congress
- A Decade of Agitation and No Road
- The Central and Union Pacific Railroads
- Act of 1862
- Subsidies
- The Southern Pacific Railroad System
- Its Incorporation and Charter
- Its Growth and Development
- The Santa Fe System
- Other Railroads. |
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CHAPTER XXXIII. - THE INDIAN QUESTION |
2227 |
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-
Treatment of the Indians by Spain and Mexico
- A Conquista
- Unsanitary Condition of the Mission Villages
- The Mission Neophyte and What Became of Him
- Wanton Outrages on the Savages
- Some So-Called Indian Wars
- Extermination of the Aborigines
- Indian Island Massacre
- The Mountaineer Battalion
- The Two Years' War
- The Modoc War |
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CHAPTER XXVI. - SOME POLITICAL HISTORY |
229 |
| |
-
Advent of the Chinese
- Kindly Received at First
- Given a Public Reception
- The "China Boys" Become Too Many
- Agitation and Legislation
- Against Them
- Dennis Kearney and the Sand Los Agitation
- Kearney's Slogan, "The Chinese Must Go"
- How Kearney Went
- The New Constitution
- A Mixed Convention
- Opposition to the Constitution
- The Constitution Adopted
- Defeat of the Workingmen's Party
- A New Treaty with China
- Governors of California, Spanish, Mexican and American |
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CHAPTER XXXV. - EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTION |
235 |
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-
Public Schools in the Spanish Era
- Schools of the Mexican Period
- No Schools for the Neophytes
- Early American Schools
- First School House in San Francisco
- The First American Teacher
- The First School Law
- A grand School System
- University of the Pacific
- College of California
- University of California
- Stanford University
- Normal Schools. |
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CHAPTER XXXVI. - CITIES OF CALIFORNIA - THEIR
ORIGIN AND GROWTH |
242 |
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- The
Spaniards and Mexicans Not Town Builders
- Francisca, on the Straits of Carquinez, the First American City
- Its Brilliant Prospects and Dismal Failure
- San Francisco
- Its Population and Expansion
- Los Angeles, the Only City in California Before the Conquest
- Population and Development
- Oakland, an American City
- Population
- Sacramento, the Metropolis of the Mines
- San Jose, the Garden City
- Stockton, the Entrepot of the Southern Mines
- San Diego, the Oldest City
- Fresno
- Vellejo
- Nevada City
- Grass Valley
- Eureka
- Marysville
- Redding
- Pasadena
- Pomona
- San Bernardino
- Riverside. |
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BIOGRAPHIES |
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