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Foreword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition | |
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Foreword to the First Edition | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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New Spain's Far Northern Frontier | |
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Editor's Introduction | |
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Sources | |
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Church and State - Luis de Velasco, 1595 | |
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Frontier Military - Antonio Martinez, 1817 | |
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"Contributions are small" - Francisco Martinez de Baeza, 1639 | |
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A Communal Land Grant - Lorenzo Marquis - Antonio Jose Ortiz, 1794 | |
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Mestizaje - First Los Angeles Census, 1781 | |
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"Most hardy subjects" - Zebulon M. Pike, 1807; Miguel Ramos de Arizpe, 18182 | |
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"There were no paupers" - Jose Agustin de Escudero, 1827 | |
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"Backward" New Mexico - Pedro Bautista Pino, 1812 | |
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The "wretched village" of San Antonio - Juan Agustin Morfi, 1778 | |
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The Romantic Frontier - Guadalupe Vallejo, 1890; George Wharton James, 1914 | |
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Yankee Infiltration and the Hardening of Stereotypes | |
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Editor's Introduction | |
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Sources | |
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"Calculating the profit" - Carlos Dehault Delassus, 1804 | |
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"Indications are very dangerous" - Joaquin del Real Alencaster, 1807 | |
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California "would fall without an effort" - William Shaler, 1808 | |
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The Black Legend - William Robertson, 1777 | |
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"Degenerate inhabitants of New Mexico" - Rufus B. Sage, 1846 | |
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"Blood ... as ditch water" - Walter Prescott Webb, 1931 & 1935 | |
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"An ill opinion of the Mexicans" - Jose Maria Sanchez, 1828 | |
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"Lazy people of vicious character" - Jose Maria Sanchez, 1828 | |
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"Industrious, honest North American settlers" - Ayuntamiento of San Antonio, 1832 | |
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"Waiting the result" - Thomas O. Larkin, 1846 | |
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Cultures Collide | |
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Editor's Introduction | |
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Sources | |
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"I am warning you" - Manuel Mier y Teran, 1828 & 1829 | |
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"The two people cannot mingle together" - Committee of Vigilance & Public Safety, San Augustin, 1835 | |
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"Their decision irrevocably sealed their fate" - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, 1837 | |
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"Texians! Render every possible assistance" - Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, 1836 | |
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"War ... our final salvation" - Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil, 1837 | |
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"The sacrificial goat" - Pio Pico, 1846-48 | |
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"We would have made some kind of resistance" - 105 New Mexicans, 1846 | |
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"Keep yourselves quiet" - Donaciano Vigil, 1847 | |
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Reactions to Defeat - Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, 1846; Juan Bautista Alvarado, 1876; Angustias de la Guerra Ord, 1878 | |
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"A duty before God" - William P. Rogers, 1846; Robert F. Stockton, 1847 | |
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"The Government of a white race" - John C. Calhoun, 1848 | |
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All the Rights of Citizens | |
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Editor's Introduction | |
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Sources | |
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"Their property, their persons, their religion" - Stephen Watts Kearny, 1846 | |
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"All the rights of citizens" - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848 | |
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"For me the placers were finished" - Antonio F. Coronel, 1849 | |
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"Hung as suspects" - El Clamor Publico, 1857 | |
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"A foreigner in my native land" - Juan Nepomuceno Seguin, 1858 | |
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"No justice for the Mexicans in Texas" - Comision Pesquisadora, 1873 | |
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"A set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans" - A Texas Ranger, 1875 | |
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"Parceled out to Mexicans" - Tucson Citizen, 1904 | |
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"Compelled to sell, little by little" - Antonio Maria Pico, et al., 1859 | |
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"A denial of justice" - Public Land Commission, 1880 | |
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Accommodation, Assimilation, and Resistance | |
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Editor's Introduction | |
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Sources | |
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"Revenge took possession of me" - Tiburcio Vasquez, 1874; Joaquin Murrieta, 1854 | |
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"To defend ourselves" - Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, 1859 | |
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Las Gorras Blancas - Nuestra Plataforma, 1890; Felix Martinez, 1890 | |
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"In sympathy" - N. A. Jennings, c. 1875 | |
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"Volunteers, both Mexicans and Americans" - Juan I. Tellez, 1926 | |
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"Now or never" - La Voz del Pueblo, 1906; Constitution of New Mexico, 1912 | |
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"Por la raza y para la raza" - Congreso Mexicanista, 1911 | |
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A Sample from the Press - El Labrador, 1904 | |
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Workers from Mexico: Three Views - Mexican: Diario del Hogar, 1910; Anglo American: Samuel Bryan, 1912; Mexican American: El Labrador, 1904 | |
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Afterword | |
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Afterword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |
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Illustrations | |
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Racial mixture in New Spain | |
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Forced labor in New Spain | |
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Stereotyped sinister Mexicans | |
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Adobe building | |
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Pio Pico | |
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Jose Antonio Navarro | |
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"Dawn at the Alamo" | |
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Angustias de la Guerra Ord | |
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Luis de la Rosa | |
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Antonio F. Coronel and his wife Mariana | |
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"The Battle of San Pascual" | |
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Juan Nepomuceno Seguin | |
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Francisco P. Ramirez | |
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Manuel Dominguez | |
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Los Angeles, 1886 | |
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Santa Fe, c. 1880 | |
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Tiburcio Vasquez | |
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Juan Nepomuceno Cortina | |
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Ignacio Calvillo | |
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Miguel Antonio Otero | |