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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Geography and History | |
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| The Origins of California Regional Diversity | |
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| The Climates of California | |
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| The Original Californians Food and Population | |
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| Aspects of Material Culture Location, Linguistic Groups, Tribes Social Culture | |
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| Discovery, Exploration, and Founding | |
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| The Finding and Naming of California Cabrillo and the Discovery of Alta California Francis Drake and Nova Albion | |
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| The Manila Galleon and the California Coast Vizcaino and Monterey Spain's Indian Policies | |
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| The Mission as a Frontier Institution | |
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| Galvez and the Plan for Alta California | |
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| The Franciscans and Father Serra | |
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| The Sacred Expedition | |
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| Outposts of a Dying Empire Bucareli, Anza, and the Founding of San Francisco Neve and the Pueblos of San Jose and Los Angeles Native Resistance | |
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| The Impact of the Missions Attempts at Reinforcement Exploration of the Central Valley | |
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| The Coming of the Russians | |
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| The Last Years Under the Spanish Flag | |
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| A Marginal Province of a Troubled Republic Government and Politics in Theory and Practice | |
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| The Secularization Problem From Echeandia to Figueroa Figueroa and Secularization Alvarado and Provincial Autonomy | |
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| The Heyday of the Rancheros | |
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| American Infiltration: Trader, Trappers, and Settlers | |
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| The Yankee Traders | |
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| The Beaver Trappers | |
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| Early Settlers Covered Wagons, 1841-1846 | |
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| The American Conquest Overtures, Diplomatic and Undiplomatic Plans of the Polk Administration | |
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| John Charles Fremont | |
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| The Bear Flag Revolt | |
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| The Mexican War and California | |
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| The Gold Rush and Economic Development Marshall's Discovery at Sutter's Mill | |
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| The Forty-Eighters | |
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| The Forty-Niners | |
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| The Diggings Early Mining Methods | |
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| Mining Camp Law From an Adventure to a Profession | |
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| The Historical Significance of the Gold Rush | |
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| A New State and Frontier Politics Military Governments | |
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| The Constitutional Convention and Its Problems | |
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| The First Legislature | |
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| The Admission of California to the Union | |
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| The Feud Between Broderick and Gwin Movements for State Division California and the Civil War | |
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| Crime and Punishment | |
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| The Nature of Vigilantism | |
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| The 'Hounds' in San Francisco | |
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| The San Francisco Committee of 1851 Statewide Vigilance | |
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| The San Francisco Committee of 1856 | |
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| Racial Oppression and Conflict Treatment of Mexican Miners Land-Title Troubles | |
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| The Act of 1851 and the Land Commission | |
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| Early Discrimination Against the Chinese | |
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| The 'Indian Question' Episodes in Extermination Decline and Exploitation Enslaved and Free Blacks | |
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| Culture and Anarchy Newspapers and Literary Magazines Writers of the Fifties Bret | |
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| Harte Mark Twain | |
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| Joaquin Miller and Other Poets Churches and Schools | |
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| Building the Central Pacific Railroad | |
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| Early Transportation Judah and the Conception of the Central | |
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| Pacific Enter the Four 'Associates' Federal and State Support Difficulties and the Death of Judah | |
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| Solving the Problems of Construction | |
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| The 'Terrible Seventies' | |
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| The Onset of Depression Transportation Monopoly | |
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| Land Monopoly | |
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| The Comstock and Overspeculation | |
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| Political Turmoil and a New Constitution | |
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| The Increase of Anti-Chinese Sentiment | |
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| The Workingsmen's Party of California | |
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| The Constitution of 1879 | |
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| The Frustration of Reform Chinese Exclusion and Segregation | |
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| Economic Growth | |
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| The Wheat Bonanza Wines | |
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| The Citrus Industry | |
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| The Rise of Southern California Water and Land Electric Railways and Urbanization | |
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| Culture and Oligarchy Henry | |