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An edition of Three years in California [1846-1849] (1850)

Three years in California

together with excerpts from the author's Deck and port, covering his arrival in California, and a selection of his letters from Monterey.

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Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey, a post to which he was elected a few months later. He remained in California until 1849, using his time to found the state's first newspaper and building its first schoolhouse. Three years in California (1850) contains Colton's memoirs of that period, including descriptions of the U.S. military occupation of California, social life and customs of Monterey, discovery of gold and firsthand impressions of the Sonora mining camp in the Southern Mines, visits to Stockton and San Jos,̌ John Charles Frm̌ont, the Constitutional Convention of 1849, and California missions.

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Business, Correspondence, Description and travel, Gold discoveries, History, Law and politics, Mines and mineral resources, Sources, Zamorano 80, American History, History. [from old catalog], Gold discoveries. [from old catalog], Law

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Walter Colton (1797-1851)

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California, San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Stockton

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1846-1850
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. The flag. — Meeting of citizens. — Disposition of forces. — Col. Fremont's band. — Alcalde of Monterey. — Indian mother. — Military leaders. — A California farm.
Page 13
CHAPTER II. Fecundity of the Californians. — First intelligence of the war. — Wild Indians on board ship. — The chief. — First newspaper published in California. — Raising the materials. — The rival suitors. — Flight of Gen. Castro. — A Californian on horseback.
Page 27
CHAPTER III. A thief obeying orders. — Game. — No penitentiary system. — The California cart on a gala-day. — The runaway daughter. — Faith of the Indians. — Return from the war. — First trial by jury. — Indian and his squaw on the hunt. — Whales in the bay. — The two gamblers. — Ladies on horseback. — Merriment in death. — The Englishman and his mistress.
Page 39
CHAPTER IV. Funeral ceremonies. — Elected alcalde. — Flight of Gen. Castro. — Los Angeles taken. — Oven-bath. — Grog in a chimney. — The flea. — First rain. — Rising of the Califomians. — Measures of Com. Stockton. — Mormons.
Page 54
CHAPTER V. Fire on the mountains. — Emigrants. — Pistols and pillows. — Leaders of the insurrection. — California plough. — Defeat at San Pedro. — Col. Fremont's band. — The Malek Adhel. — Monterey threatened. — Soldier out-witted. — Raising men. — Bridegroom. — Culprits.
Page 72
CHAPTER VI. Santa Barbara taken. — Lieut. Talbot and his ten. — Gambling in prison. — Recruits. — A funny culprit. — Movements of Com. Stockton. — Beauty and the grave. — Battle on the Salinas. — The captain's daughter. — Stolen pistols. — Indian behind a tree. — Nuptials in California.
Page 89
CHAPTER VII. San Jose garrisoned. — A California rain. — Escape of convicts. — Shooting Edwards. — Two washerwomen. — Death of Mr. Sargent. — Indian hens. — Hunting curlew. — The California horse. — An old emigrant. — The grizzly bear.
Page 106
CHAPTER VIII. Little Adelaida. — Col. Fremont's battalion. — Santiago in love. — Sentiments of an old Californian. — The prize Julia. — Fandango. — Winter climate. — Patron Saint of California. — Habits of the natives. — Insurrection in the north. — Drama in a church. — Position of Com. Stockton.
Page 121
CHAPTER IX. Day of the Santos Innocentes. — Letting off a lake. — Arrival of the Dale with home letters. — The dead year. — Newly-arrived emigrants. — Egg-breaking festivities. — Concealment of Chaves. — Plot to capture the alcalde
Page 134
CHAPTER X. Destruction of dogs. — The wash-tub mail. — The surrender in the north. — Robbing the Californians. — Death-scene in a shanty. — The men who took up arms. — Arrival of the Independence. — Destitution of our troops. — Capture of los Angeles.
Page 149
CHAPTER XI. Arrival of the Lexington. — The march to los Angeles, and battle of San Gabriel. — The capitulation. — Military characteristics of the Californians. — Barricades down.
Page 163
CHAPTER XII. Return of T. O. Larkin. — The tall partner in the Californian. — Mexican officers. — The Cyane. — War mementoes. — Drama of Adam and Eve. — Carnival. — Birth-day of Washington. — A California captain. — Application for a divorce. — Arrival of the Columbus.
Page 173
CHAPTER XIII. The people of Monterey. — The guitar and runaway wife. — Mother ordered to flog her son. — Work of the prisoners. — Catching sailors. — Court of Admiralty. — Gamblers caught and fined. — Lifting land boundaries
Page 189
CHAPTER XIV. A convict who would not work. — Lawyers at Monterey. — Who conquered California. — Ride to a rancho. — Leopaldo. — Party of Californians. — A dash into the forests. — Chasing a deer. — Killing a bear. — Ladies with firearms. — A mother and volunteer.
Page 199
CHAPTER XV. A California pic-nic. — Seventy and seventeen in the dance. — Children in the grove. — A California bear-hunt. — The bear and bull bated. — The Russian's cabbage head.
Page 210
CHAPTER XVI. A Californian jealous of his wife. — Hospitality of the natives. — Honors to Guadalupe. — Application from a Lothario for a divorce. — Capture of Mazatlan. — Larceny of Canton shawls. — An emigrant's wife claiming to have taken the country. — A wild bullock in Main-street
Page 220
CHAPTER XVII. Rains in California. — Functions of the alcalde of Monterey. — Orphans in California. — Slip of the gallows rope. — Making a father whip his boy. — A convict as prison cook. — The knacka. — Thom. Cole. — A man robbing himself. — A blacksmith outwitted.
Page 230
CHAPTER XVIII. First discovery of gold. — Prison guard. — Incredulity about the gold. — Santiago getting married. — Another lump of gold. — Effects of the gold fever. — The court of an alcalde. — Mosquitoes as constables. — Bob and his bag of gold. — Return of citizens from the mines. — A man with the gold cholic. — The mines on individual credit.
Page 242
CHAPTER XIX. Tour of the gold-mines. — Loss of horses. — First night in the woods. — Arrival at San Juan. — Under way. — Camping out. — Bark of the wolves. — Watch-fires. — San Jose. — A fresh start. — Camping on the slope of a hill. — Wild features of the country. — Valley of the San Joaquin. — Band of wild horses.
Page 257
CHAPTER XX. The grave of a gold-hunter. — Mountain spurs. — A company of Sonoranians. — A night alarm. — First view of the mines. — Character of the deposits. — A woman and her pan. — Removal to other mines. — Wild Indians and their weapons. — Cost of provisions. — A plunge into a gold river. — Machines used by the gold-diggers.
Page 269
CHAPTER XXI. Lump of gold lost. — Indians at their game of arrows. — Camp of the gold-hunters. — A Sonoranian gold-digger. — Sabbath in the mines. — The giant Welchman. — Nature of gold deposits. — Average per man. — New discoveries.
Page 282
CHAPTER XXII. Visit to the Sonoranian camp. — Festivities and gambling. — The doctor and teamster. — An alcalde turned cook. — The miner's tattoo. — The little Dutchman. — New deposits discovered. — A woman keeping a monte table. — Up to the knee and nine-pence. — The volcanoes and gold. — Arrival of a barrel of rum.
Page 295
CHAPTER XXIII. Natural amphitheatre. — No scientific clue to the deposits of gold. — Soil of the mines. — Life among the gold-diggers. — Loss of our caballada. — The old man and rock. — Departure from the mines. — Travelling among gorges and pinnacles. — Instincts of the mule. — A mountain cabin.
Page 309
CHAPTER XXIV. A lady in the mountains. — Town of Stockton. — Crossing the valley of the San Joaquin. — The robbed father and boy. — Ride to San Jose. — Rum in California. — Highwayman. — Woodland life. — Rachel at the well. — Farewell to my camping-tree.
Page 324
CHAPTER XXV. Cause of sickness in the mines. — The quicksilver mines. — Heat and cold in the mines. — Traits in the Spanish character. — Health of California ladies. — A word to mothers. — The pingrass and blackbird. — The Redwood-tree. — Battle of the eggs.
Page 339
CHAPTER XXVI. The public domain. — Scenery around Monterey. — Vineyards of los Angeles. — Beauty of San Diego. — The culprit hall. — The rush for gold. — Land titles. — The Indian doctress. — Tufted partridge. — Death of Com. Biddle.
Page 351
CHAPTER XXVII. The gold region. — Its locality, nature, and extent. — Foreigners in the mines. — The Indians' discovery of gold. — Agricultural capabilities of California. — Services of United States officers. — First decisive movement for the organization of a civil government. — Intelligence of the death of Gen. Kearny.
Page 365
CHAPTER XXVIII. Ride of Col. Fremont from los Angelese to Monterey and back. — Character of the country. — The rincon. — Skeletons of dead horses. — A stampede. — Gray bears. — The return. — The two horses rode by Col. Fremont. — An experiment. — The result. — Characteristics of the California horse. — Fossil remains. — The two classes of emigrants. — Life in California. — Heads against tails.
Page 377
CHAPTER XXIX. The tragedy at San Miguel. — Court and culprits. — Age and circumstances of those who should come to California. — Condition of the professions. — The wrongs of California. — Claims on the Christian community. — Journalists
Page 391
CHAPTER XXX. The gold-bearing quartz. — Their locality. — Richness and extent. — The suitable machinery to be used in the mountains. — The court of admiralty at Monterey. — lts organization and jurisdiction. — The cases determined. — Sale of the prizes. — Convention and Constitution of California. — Difficulties and compromises. — Spirit of the instrument.
Page 403
CHAPTER XXXI. Glances at towns sprung and springing. — San Francisco. — Benicia. — Sacramento City. — Sutter. — Vernon. — Boston. — Stockton. — New York. — Alvezo. — Stanislaus. — Sonora. — Crescent City. — Trinidad.
Page 414
CHAPTER XXXII. Brief notices of persons, whose portraits embellish this volume, and who are prominently connected with California affairs.
Page 425
CHAPTER XXXIII. The mission establishments in California. — Their origin, objects, localities, lands, revenues, overthrow. — California Railroad.
Page 439

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"Published writings of Walter Colton": p. xiv.
With reproduction of t.p. of original ed., 1859.

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917.94
Library of Congress
F865 .C734

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xvii, 376, xix-l p.
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2199924
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