California Conquered: War and Peace on the Pacific, 1846-1850

History

Harlow, Neal

Americas

University of California Press

<p>This book began as a venture to collect official and unofficial documents relating to the interval of American military rule. There proved to be thousands, the writings of Presidents, executive officers, and congressmen, naval and military personnel, governors, settlers, and citizens-routine, familiar, wheedling, seductive, blustering, commanding. As the quantity grew, they seemed eager to be heard. But the documents exhibit the traits of their makers. Containing neither the whole truth nor nothing but the truth, they offer many-sided versions of what people believed or wanted others to accept; they must be taken with a grain of salt. Long, sometimes garbled, and always incomplete, the record requires assessment, a referee to appraise the evidence and form his own imperfect conclusions. And any curious or dissenting reader may, by consulting the numerous cited sources, make his own interpretations. References, whenever possible, have been made to materials in some printed form, leading an inquirer to a vast array of historical evidence.  Everything herein happened, or so the record tells, and if an assumption has been made, it is that men, issues, and events can be interesting in their own right, without exaggeration. "To exaggerate," a knowing urban child recently observed, "means you put in something to make it more exciting" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 1978).</p>

California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850

Index with descriptions and beautiful reproductions of early maps of the area.

Maps of the Pueblo Lands of San Diego 1602-1874

Dawsons Book Shop

Reprint of the 1950 text with twenty-nine maps and two 18th century plans exclusive to this edition. The original edition was issued by the Book Club of California in 1950. An additional four pages and twenty-five leaves of maps. New introduction by Alfred W. Newman, new Preamble to Addenda and Addenda done by Neal Harlow. A collection of maps of the San Francisco Bay from the Spanish discovery in 1769 to the American occupation, covering from 1769 to 1847. This is an important contribution to the history of cartography. viii, iv ,ix-xii,140, 4 pages. cloth.. 4to..

The Maps of San Francisco Bay: From the Spanish Discovery in 1769 to the American Occupation

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