ISBN: 9780217277600

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrat… Altro …

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1914. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter vii determining the eastern boundary No subject that came before the Convention consumed more time, stirred up greater rivalry and came so near producing a riot as did the settlement of an eastern boundary for California. It was this question, too, over which sectionalism (. e., sectionalism between the Old North and the Old South) is generally believed to have manifested itself most. Historians have asserted that the management of the Convention was in the hands of southern men,1 and invariably they drew their deduction from the boundary controversy. We shall see, however, that such conclusions are not based on facts. The Boundary of California Under Spain and Mexico California probably had no established eastern boundary under the Spanish government.2 The explorations of Garces'' through southern Nevada, as shown on Padre Font''s map of 1777,1 and of Dominguez and Escalante through Utah and southeastern Nevada2 had doubtless given the Spanish officials a vague notion of the interior basin of Upper California, and the decrees of the viceroys, according to Halleck, included that region in the judicial district of the California territory.3 1 Bancroft, History of California, vi, 286. Royce, California, 262 et seq. A recent writer goes a step farther and asserts that more than half of the delegates had originated in states below the Mason and Dixon line. Coman, Economic Beginnings of the Far West, ii, 248. ''Bancroft, History of Arizona and New Mexico, 345, says: California, however, while no boundary was ever fixed officially, was not generally considered to extend east of the Rio Colorado. Even when Mexico became independent of Spain, the boundaries of her northern provinces, California and New Mexico, were not established with any great degree of prec... Leonidas Cardinal Goodwin, Books, History, The Establishment of State Government in California 1846-1850 Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: The Macmillan company in 1914 in 389 pages; Subjects: California; History / General; History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / West; Law / Constitutional; Political Science / Constitutions; Travel / United States / West / Pacific;<

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1846, ISBN: 0217277608