General M.G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans: A BiographyUniversity of New Mexico Press, 1995 - 292 strani General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was one of California's most distinguished citizens in the mid nineteenth century. A frontier cosmopolitan and visionary, Vallejo owned vast ranchos in northern California and wielded enormous political power throughout the province. While serving as military governor during Mexican rule, he established an open immigration policy that encouraged and facilitated the American entrada to northern California. Dissatisfied with the remoteness of Mexican sovereignty, Vallejo believed that only the United States could unleash California's untapped economic potential. Not even Vallejo's imprisonment by the unscrupulous John C. Fremont during the Mexican-American War deterred the General's pursuit of a political and economic relationship between California and the United States. Although Vallejo lost all his land to Yankee mortgage holders in the years following the conflict, he never abandoned his faith in the power of American democracy to transform human society. Alan Rosenus's richly textured biography uses primary sources to narrate Vallejo's rise to power, his dominance of northern California, and the expansion of his great land holdings. Included in this chronicle are vivid sketches of colorful historical figures like Fremont, Don Salvador Vallejo, Chief Solano, Thomas Larkin, and many others. |
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... rebels succeeded in landing , the children would have to be taken inland across the Salinas River to Mission Soledad , or to Mission San Antonio at the southern end of the Salinas Valley . Sergeant Ignacio Vallejo and his eldest son ...
... rebels succeeded in landing , the children would have to be taken inland across the Salinas River to Mission Soledad , or to Mission San Antonio at the southern end of the Salinas Valley . Sergeant Ignacio Vallejo and his eldest son ...
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... rebels drove them to the Salinas Valley . An army without mounts was crippled - an object of scorn . The rebel officers issued a pronunciamiento , rallied the people , and prepared to rid the country of the unwanted troops . Alvarado's ...
... rebels drove them to the Salinas Valley . An army without mounts was crippled - an object of scorn . The rebel officers issued a pronunciamiento , rallied the people , and prepared to rid the country of the unwanted troops . Alvarado's ...
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... rebels as poor men who wanted to make California independent . He knew that the General possessed vast mili- tary stores and owned large tracts of property and that Vallejo was one of the most powerful individuals in the country.27 ― In ...
... rebels as poor men who wanted to make California independent . He knew that the General possessed vast mili- tary stores and owned large tracts of property and that Vallejo was one of the most powerful individuals in the country.27 ― In ...
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List of Illustrations IX | 1793 |
1841 23 | 1821 |
The Advent of the Americans 33 | 1831 |
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General M.G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans: A Biography Alan Rosenus Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1995 |
General M.G. Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans: A Biography Alan Rosenus Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1995 |
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