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This is part 3 of the History of California. Here we're looking at the Mexican Era from 1821-1846, and a bit beginning with 1769.
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references:
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. 39 Vols. San Francisco, Calif.: The History Company, 1890. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_...

Deverell, William. Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. https://amzn.to/2u75NKd

Hackel, Steven. Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. Chapel Hill, N.Car.: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. https://amzn.to/2urVVuq

Hall-Patton, Joseph. Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo. CA: Cal Poly, 2016. http://www.digitalcommons.calpoly.edu...

Hawgood, John. “The Pattern of Yankee Infiltration in Mexican Alta California.” Pacific Historical Review 27, no.1 (February 1958), 27-37.

Langum, David. Law and Community on the Mexican California Frontier: Anglo American Expatriates and the Clash of Legal Traditions, 1821-1846. San Diego, Cal.: Vanard Lithographers, 2006. https://amzn.to/2NNyofL

Sandos, James A. Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions, 1769–1836. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. https://amzn.to/2upbVxh

Stenberg, Richard. “Polk and Fremont.” Pacific Historical Review 7, no.3 (September 1938), 211-227.

Tays, George. “Fremont Had No Secret Instructions.” Pacific Historical Review 9, no.2 (June 1940), 157-171.

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Special thanks to Mark Hall-Patton for proofreading this script
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Alta California (English: Upper California), founded in 1769 by Gaspar de Portolà, was a polity of New Spain and after the Mexican War of Independence in 1822, a territory of Mexico. The region included all of the modern states of California, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.
Neither Spain nor Mexico ever colonized the area beyond the southern and central coastal area of present-day California, so they never exerted any effective control north of the Sonoma area, or east of the California Coast Ranges. Most interior areas such as the Central Valley and the deserts of California remained in de facto possession of indigenous peoples until later in the Mexican era when more inland land grants were made, and especially after 1841 when overland immigrants from the United States began to settle inland areas.
Large areas east of the Sierra Nevada and San Gabriel Mountains were claimed to be part of Alta California, but were never colonized. To the southeast, beyond the deserts and the Colorado River, lay the Spanish settlements in Arizona.[notes 1][notes 2]
Alta California ceased to exist as an administrative division separate from Baja California in 1836, when the Siete Leyes constitutional reforms in Mexico re-established Las Californias as a unified department. The areas formerly comprising Alta California were ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War in 1848. Two years later, California joined the union as the 31st state. Other parts of Alta California became all or part of the later U.S. states of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming.
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