New Spain's Far Northern Frontier
Church and State / Luis de Velasco
Frontier Military / Antonio Martinez
"Contributions are small" / Francisco Martinez de Baeza
A Communal Land Grant / Lorenzo Marquis & Antonio Jose Ortiz
Mestizaje / First Los Angeles Census
"Most hardy subjects" / Zebulon M. Pike ; Miguel Ramos de Arizpe
"There were no paupers" / Jose Agustin de Escudero
"Backward" New Mexico / Pedro Bautista Pino
The "wretched village" of San Antonio / Juan Agustin Morfi
The Romantic Frontier / Guadalupe Vallejo ; George Wharton James
Yankee Infiltration and the Hardening of Stereotypes
"Calculating the profit" / Carlos Dehault Delassus
"Indications are very dangerous" / Joaquin del Real Alencaster
California "would fall without an effort" / William Shaler
The Black Legend / William Robertson
"Degenerate inhabitants of New Mexico" / Rufus B. Sage
"Blood ... as ditch water" / Walter Prescott Webb
"An ill opinion of the Mexicans" / Jose Maria Sanchez
"Lazy people of vicious character" / Jose Maria Sanchez
"Industrious, honest North American settlers" / Ayuntamiento of San Antonio
"Waiting the result" / Thomas O. Larkin
"I am warning you" / Manuel Mier y Teran
"The two people cannot mingle together" / Committee of Vigilance & Public Safety, San Augustin
"Their decision irrevocably sealed their fate" / Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
"Texians! Render every possible assistance" / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin
"War ... our final salvation" / Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil
"The 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 ; Anguistias de la Guerra Ord
"A duty before God" / William P. Rogers, Robert F. Stockton
"The Government of a white race" / John C. Calhoun
All the Rights of Citizens
"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 Publico
"A foreigner in my native land" / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin
"No justice for the Mexicans in Texas" / Comision Pesquisadora
"A 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. al.
"A denial of justice" / Public Land Commission
Accommodation, Assimilation, and Resistance
"Revenge took possession of me" / Tiburcio Vasquez ; Joaquin Murrieta
"To defend ourselves" / Juan Nepomuceno Cortina
Las Gorras Blancas / Nuestra Plataforma ; Felix Martinez
"In sympathy" / N.A. Jennings
"Volunteers, both Mexicans and Americans" / Juan I. Tellez
"Now or never" / La Voz del Pueblo ; Constitution of New Mexico
"Por la raza y para la raza" / Congreso Mexicanista
A Sample from the Press / El Labrador
Workers from Mexico: Three Views. Mexican / Diario del Hogar ; Anglo American / Samuel Bryan ; Mexican American / El Labrador.