Bear Flag Rising: The Conquest of California, 1846 - Softcover

Walker, Dale L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312875126 ISBN 13: 9780312875121

Publisher: Forge, 2000

Synopsis

Traces the history of California from its peaceful days of Native American occupation, to the advent of American trappers, through its steady decline under Mexico's rule. By the author of Legend and Lies and The Boys of '98. Reprint.

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From the Author

How California was 'conquered' by American forces in 1846.
BEAR FLAG RISING is about one of the forgotten episodes in American history: how California fell into American hands in 1846. The "conquest" of Mexico's Alta California began before "Mr. Polk's War" with Mexico was declared, when a handful of American settlers in the Sacramento Valley staged a revolt in the town of Sonoma, raised the Bear Flag standard in the town plaza and proclaimed the vast territory's independence. Soon after this near-bloodless coup, American naval forces arrived to make the civilian rising a military reality. Central to the story is the interaction between three men divided over an ostensibly common purpose--the conquest of California: Commodore Robert Stockton of the Navy, the explorer John C. Fremont, and Army General Stephen W. Kearny.

Synopsis

Presents a history of the land now called California, from the time before the first Europeans arrived, to the dominance of Mexico, to the ultimate war that brought the territory under American control.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312875126
• ISBN 13: 9780312875121
• Binding: Paperback