AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR

CHAPTER I. Author's Arrival in California - Book-keeper at Sutter's Fort - Sutter's Hospitality - General Castro's Arrival at Fort - Castro's Proclamation

CHAPTER II. Fremont's Arrival - His Trip to San Joaquin Valley and to Yerba Buena and Monterey - Obtains Permission from Castro to Take His Men to Monterey - Takes His Command towards Monterey - Arrives at Gomez Ranch - Castro Raises Force to Resist His Further Advance - Fremont Camps, Throws up Breastworks and Hoists American Flag - Strikes Camp and Goes to Tulare Valley - Arrival of Lieutenant Gillespie as Bearer of Dispatches from Secretary of State - Secret Letter to Larkin - Gillespie Starts to Recall Fremont - Bancroft's History - Larkin's Books Taking of Sonoma by Bear Flag Party - Bancroft's Comments - Castro's Proclamation the Cause - Bancroft's Denunciations - Author's Criticism of Bancroft

CHAPTER III. Affairs in Monterey - English Feeling Dominant - Junta of Californians - Speech by General Vallejo - Bancroft's Denial - Letter from General Vallejo - Arrival of Commodore Sloat - Rumors of Trouble in Mexico - Larkin's Interview with Sloat - Interviews between Sloat, Captains Mervine and Page - Commodore Sloat's Irresolution and Timidity - Anxiety of the Americans - Protest of French Consul - His Arrest Commodore Sloat's Final Determination to Raise the Flag - The Flag Raised

CHAPTER IV. Dispatches Sent to Captain Montgomery and Fremont - Arrival of Com- modore Stockton on Frigate Congress - Arrival of British Line-of- Battle Ship Collingwood, Admiral Seymour - Fremont's Arrival with His Men - Their Unique - Appearance - British Officers Visit Their Camp - Their Expert Rifle Shooting - Doctor Semple - Fremont Sails for San Diego - Commodore Sloat Turns over Command to Commodore Stockton - Stockton Sails for San Pedro - Combines Forces with Fremont and Takes Los Angeles - Leaves Los Angeles in Command of Gillespie - He Is Obliged to Capitulate Captain Mervine's Attempt to Retake Los Angeles Abortive - Re-organizing Forces in the North - Stockton Sails for San Diego - Fremont Sails for the South - Author Joins Battalion - Put into Monterey - Larkin Taken Prisoner

CHAPTER V. Recruits Arrive from the North - Battle of "Natividad"

CHAPTER VI. Fremont Leaves Monterey - Organization of Battalion - Indian Spy Shot - Taking of San Luis Obispo - Jose de Jesus Pico - Tried by Court Martial and Condemned to Be Shot - Pico Pardoned

CHAPTER VII. Passage of the Santa Ynez Mountains - Taking of Santa Barbara - Arrival at San Buenaventura - Messenger from Commodore Stockton - Arrival at San Fernando Mission - Flag of Truce - Commissioners Meet and Conclude Treaty for Capitulation - Surrender and Completion of the Conquest of California

CHAPTER VIII. General Remarks and Conclusion

INTRODUCTION TO BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

INDEX OF PIONEERS

General John C Fremont

William Davis Murry Howard

William A Leidesdorff

Jasper O'Farrell

John Sullivan 4

Moses Schellenberger

Jacob R Snyder

George McDougall

William Blackburn

Washington A Bartlett

George Hyde

Edwin Bryant

Richard Mitchell Sherman

R C Kirby

Edward C Kemble

Samuel Brannan

Benjamin S Lippincott

Andrew J Grayson

Robert A Parker

Selim E Wood worth

Colonel Jonathan D Stevenson

Emanuel Charles Christian Russ

Adolphus Gustave Russ

Charles Edward Russ

Augustus Philip Russ

Frederick Russ

Henry B Russ

Edward Gilbert

James C L Wadsworth

Joseph Libbey Folsom

George Stoneman

Pierre Barlow Cornwall

Orville C Pratt

Captain William A Richardson

William Heath Davis

" Nathan Spear

William Sturgis Hinckley

Jean Jaques Voiget

John Paty

Robert T Ridley

Peter Shirrebeck

Joseph P Thompson

Henry F Tischemacher

William M Smith

Elbert P.Jones

James Lick

W Frank Ward

John C Buchanan

Benjamin R Buckelew

Alfred J Ellis

James C Ward

Alexander G Abell

John B Frisbie

Doctor William C Parker

Thaddeus M Leavenworth

Francis J Lippett

s Doctor Victor J Fourgeand

Eliab and Hiram Grimes

Charles L Ross

THE ARGONAUTS

Louis Sloss

Caius Tacitus Ryland

Willard Brigham Farwell

David Jackson Staples '

Arthur M Ebbets

Howard Havens

Colonel John D Fry

Thomas Cole

Frank M Pixley

Barnes Phelan

Abraham Powell

William Henry Bovee

Henry Brown Hunt

Darius O Mills

William T Coleman

Richard Hayes McDonald

William H Pratt

Atkins Massey

Daniel Norcross

John F Lohse

Edgar Briggs

George Dedrick Nagle

George H Howard

Reuben Morton