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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 | |