The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 866
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The Ever-changing View
Author: Anthony Godfrey
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 688
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Report
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 712
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Author: Gene C. Armistead
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-08-02
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1476674612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil War and the exemplar of treason in the Far West among the pro-Union press. He gained notoriety as the survivor of California's last political (and actual, fatal) duel, for his role in the display of a Confederate flag in Sacramento, and for his imprisonment after an armed confrontation with Union troops. Escaping to Texas, he distinguished himself in the Confederate service in naval battles and in pursuit of Comanche raiders. As commander of the 4th Arizona Cavalry, he helped recapture the Rio Grande Valley from the Union and defended Brownsville against a combined Union and Mexican force. Refusing to surrender at war's end, he fled to Mexico, where he died of a wound sustained in a drunken bar fight at age 35.
1861
Author: Adam Goodheart
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-02-21
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1400032199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gripping and original account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to freedom. An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 introduces us to a heretofore little-known cast of Civil War heroes—among them an acrobatic militia colonel, an explorer’s wife, an idealistic band of German immigrants, a regiment of New York City firemen, a community of Virginia slaves, and a young college professor who would one day become president. Their stories take us from the corridors of the White House to the slums of Manhattan, from the waters of the Chesapeake to the deserts of Nevada, from Boston Common to Alcatraz Island, vividly evoking the Union at its moment of ultimate crisis and decision. Hailed as “exhilarating….Inspiring…Irresistible…” by The New York Times Book Review, Adam Goodheart’s bestseller 1861 is an important addition to the Civil War canon. Includes black-and-white photos and illustrations.
Santa Ana River Main Stem and Santiago Creek
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 440
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Author: Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-04-16
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1439124612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.
The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
Author: Leonard L. Richards
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-02-13
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0307267377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Forging the Tortilla Curtain
Author: Thomas Torrans
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780875652313
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Before L.A.
Author: David Samuel Torres-Rouff
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-09-24
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 0300156626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial, and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles we know today. It is a fascinating study of how an innovative intercultural community developed along racial lines, and how immigrants from the United States engineered a profound shift in civic ideals and the physical environment, creating a social and spatial rupture that endures to this day.
