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THE FORTY-NINERS
A CHRONICLE OF THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL AND EL DORADO
BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE
1918
CONTENTS
I. SPANISH DAYS
II. THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION
III. LAW--MILITARY AND CIVIL
IV. GOLD
V. ACROSS THE PLAINS
VI. THE MORMONS
VII. THE WAY BY PANAMA
VIII. THE DIGGINGS
IX. THE URBAN FORTY-NINER
X. ORDEAL BY FIRE
XI. THE VIGILANTES OF '51
XII. SAN FRANCISCO IN TRANSITION
XIII. THE STORM GATHERS
XIV. THE STORM BREAKS
XV. THE VIGILANTES OF '56
XVI. THE TRIUMPH OF THE VIGILANTES
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INDEX
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CHAPTER I
SPANISH DAYS
The dominant people of California have been successively aborigines,
_conquistadores_, monks, the dreamy, romantic, unenergetic peoples of
Spain, the roaring melange of Forty-nine, and finally the modern
citizens, who are so distinctive that they bid fair to become a
subspecies of their own. This modern society has, in its evolution,
something unique. To be sure, other countries also have passed through
these same phases. But while the processes have consumed a leisurely
five hundred years or so elsewhere, here they have been subjected to
forced growth.
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