Initial Conquest | California History [ep.1]

For a playlist of the entire History of California series:    • The History of California  

Today, I’m going to start a new series. Since I live in California, and have done a bunch of California history, I thought it’s about time YouTube had a history of California. So without further ado, here is The History of California.
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references:
Angel, Myron. History of San Luis Obispo County, California, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Oakland, Cal.: Thompson & West, 1883. https://archive.org/details/historyof...

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...

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

Special thanks to Mark Hall-Patton for proofreading this script
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Wiki:
European explorers flying the flags of Spain and of England explored the Pacific Coast of California beginning in the mid-16th century. Francisco de Ulloa explored the west coast of present-day Mexico including the Gulf of California, proving that Baja California was a peninsula,[8] but in spite of his discoveries the myth persisted in European circles that California was an island.
Rumors of fabulously wealthy cities located somewhere along the California coast, as well as a possible Northwest Passage that would provide a much shorter route to the Indies, provided an incentive to explore further.
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