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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... probably from him that the two boys got their first impression of the Americans who frequented the coast and also of the Yankees ' land - based rivals in California , the Russians . In 1812 the Russian - American Fur Company had arrived ...
... probably from him that the two boys got their first impression of the Americans who frequented the coast and also of the Yankees ' land - based rivals in California , the Russians . In 1812 the Russian - American Fur Company had arrived ...
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... probably owing to his successful Indian campaigns rather than to the intimidating cordiality he sometimes used to subdue political adversar- ies . For a Californian , he was slow to anger and was known to be a careful reasoner , which ...
... probably owing to his successful Indian campaigns rather than to the intimidating cordiality he sometimes used to subdue political adversar- ies . For a Californian , he was slow to anger and was known to be a careful reasoner , which ...
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... probably inspired by what he learned from an old flame , Adelaida Spence . Her husband , David Spence , had received a secret warning about Gillespie from someone aboard the Cyane , and she passed the information along to Don Mariano ...
... probably inspired by what he learned from an old flame , Adelaida Spence . Her husband , David Spence , had received a secret warning about Gillespie from someone aboard the Cyane , and she passed the information along to Don Mariano ...
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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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