Describes changing white views of native California Indians as Spanish victims, useful laborers, and, finally, obstacles to white expansion

Eyewitness account from a twenty-one year old Bostonite of his hide and tallow trading days in Mexican California.

Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic

Re-examines the life of John Sutter in the context of America's rush for westward expansion in a fully documented account of the Swiss expatriate and would-be e