Author:
Weber, David J. comp.
Edition Statement:[1st ed.]
Imprint:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1973]
Descriptionxi, 288 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Note:Church and state / Luis de Velasco -- Frontier military / Antonio Martinez -- "Contributions are small" / Francisco Martinez de Baeza -- Communal land grant / Lorenzo Marquis, Antonio José Ortiz -- Mestizaje / First Los Angeles Census -- Most hardy subjects / Zebulon M. Pike, Miguel Ramos de Arizpe -- "There were no paupers" / José Agustin de Escudero -- "Backward" New Mexico / Pedro Bautista Pino -- "Wretched village" of San Antonio / Juan Agustin Morfi -- Romantic frontier / Guadalupe Vallejo, George Wharton James -- "Calculating the profit" / Carlos Dehault Delassus -- "Indications are very dangerous" / Joaquin del Real Alencaster -- California "would fall without an effort" / William Shaler -- Black legend / William Robertson - "Degenerate inhabitants of New Mexico" / Rufus B. Sage -- "Blood...as ditch water" / Walter Prescott Webb -- "Ill opinion of the Mexicans" / José María Sànchez -- "Lazy people of vicious character" / José María Sànchez -- "Industrious, honest North American settlers" / Ayuntamiento of San Antonio -- "Waiting the result" / Thomas O. Larkin -- "I am warning you" / Manuel Mier y Terán - "Two people cannot mingle together" / Committee of Vigilance & Public Safety -- "Their decision irrevocably sealed their fate" / Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna -- "Texians! Render every possible assistance" / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin -- "War...our final salvation" / José María Tornel y Mendivil -- "Sacrificial goat" / Pio Pico -- "We would have made some kind of resistance" / 105 New Mexicans -- "Keep yourselves quiet" / Donaciano Vigil -- Reactions to Defeat / Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Angustias de la Guerra Ord -- "Duty before God" / William P. Rogers, Robert F. Stockton -- "Government of a white race" / John C. Calhoun -- "Their property, their persons, their religion" / Stephen Watts Kearny -- "All the rights of citizens" / Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- "For me the placers were finished" / Antonio F. Coronel -- Hung as suspects" / El Clamor Público -- "Foreigner in my native land" / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin -- "No justice for the Mexicans in Texas" / Comision Pesquisadora -- "Set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans" / A Texas Ranger -- "Parceled out to Mexicans" / Tucson Citizen -- "Compelled to sell, little by little" / Antonio Maria Pico, et all -- "Denial of justice" / Public Land Commission -- "Revenge took possession of me" / Tiburcio Vásquez, Joaquin Murrieta -- "To defend ourselves" / Juan Nepomuceno Cortina -- Gorras Blancas / Nuestra Plataforma, Felix Martinez -- "In sympathy" / N. A. Jennings -- "Volunteers, both Mexicans and Americans" / Juan I. Téllez -- "Now or never" / La Voz del Pueblo, Constitution of New Mexico -- "Por la raza y para la raza" / Congreso Mexicanista -- Sample from the Press / El Labrador -- Workers from Mexico: Three Views / Mexican: Diario del Hogar, Anglo American: Samuel Bryan, Mexican American: El Labrador.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 280-282.
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