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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... grant known as the Rancho Petaluma , a parcel eventually enlarged to include some 66,000 acres . It embraced most of the country between the Petaluma River and Sonoma Creek . Divid- ing the grant was the Sonoma Mountain Range . On one ...
... grant known as the Rancho Petaluma , a parcel eventually enlarged to include some 66,000 acres . It embraced most of the country between the Petaluma River and Sonoma Creek . Divid- ing the grant was the Sonoma Mountain Range . On one ...
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... grant.47 By then , Vallejo had spent tens of thousands of dollars defending his land claims in the lower courts , and he had already disposed of more than half of his Soscol property . To lose title to what remained was an enormous ...
... grant.47 By then , Vallejo had spent tens of thousands of dollars defending his land claims in the lower courts , and he had already disposed of more than half of his Soscol property . To lose title to what remained was an enormous ...
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... grant to Vallejo , Judge Black objected to the transfer on three grounds : he claimed Micheltorena had the power to give the land to Vallejo , but not to sell it to him for five thousand dollars ; secondly , the grant ( though not ...
... grant to Vallejo , Judge Black objected to the transfer on three grounds : he claimed Micheltorena had the power to give the land to Vallejo , but not to sell it to him for five thousand dollars ; secondly , the grant ( though not ...
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1841 | 23 |
The Advent of the Americans | 33 |
Men With Nothing to Lose | 95 |
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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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