Episode 34

Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los Californios

“Castle of the Plains”. Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site Colorado. National Park Service, video, 5:28. Accessed at: https://www.nps.gov/beol/index.htm.

Denton, Sally. Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Frémont, The Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Bloomsbury, 2007.

Friedel, Frank and Hugh Sidey. “James K. Polk” from “The Presidents of the United States of America”. White House Historical Association. 2006. Accessed at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/james-k-polk/.

Fleek, Sherman L.“The Kearny/Stockton/Frémont Feud: The Mormon Battalion's Most Significant Contribution in California.” Journal of Mormon History 37, no. 3 (2011). 229 - 257.

“General Mariano G. Vallejo”. The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. Accessed at: http://www.sfmuseum.net/bio/vallejo.html.

Greenburg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 Invasion of Mexico. New York: Vintage Books, 2012.

Groom, Winston. Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 

Guardino, Peter. The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.

Guinn, James Miller and Juergen Beck. A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1915.

Hannings, Bud. The U.S.-Mexican War: A Complete Chronology. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2014. 

“Kearny Code; Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico; September 22, 1846”. New Mexico Office of the State Historian. Accessed at: http://dev.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=384.

Harlow, Neal. California Conquered: War on the Pacific, 1846-1850. Berekely and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982.

“Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo”. Latino Americans, PBS, video, 15:53, 09/16/2013. Accessed at: https://www.pbs.org/video/latino-americans-mariano-guadalupe-vallejo/.

“New Mexico - Laws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico; September 22, 1846.” The Avalon Project. Yale Law Library. Accessed at: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/kearney.asp.

Stone, Ilene and Suzanna M. Grenz. Jessie Benton Frémont: Missouri's Trailblazer. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005.

Walker, Dale. Bear Flag Rising: The Conquest of California, 1846. New York: Forge Press, 1999.

Woodworth, Steven E. Manifest Destinies: America’s Westward Expansion and the Road to the Civil War. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2010.