4.5: Suggested Readings
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- Griswold del Castillo, Richard, “ Joaquín Murrieta: Life and Legend,” in With Badges and Bullets: Lawmen and Outlaws in the Old West, Richard Etulain and Glenda Riley, eds. (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Press, 1999), pp. 106–123. A review of the many conflicting sources of the Murrieta story, along with the legend’s contemporary meanings.
- Griswold del Castillo, Richard, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990). The best single-volume study of the political and international importance of the treaty that ended the war with Mexico.
- Harlow, Neal, California Conquered: War and Peace on the Pacific, 1846–1850 (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1982). The best single source for studying the U.S.-Mexican War in California.
- Johnson, Susan Lee, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000). An excellent source for understanding the lives of women during the Gold Rush.
- Robinson, Alfred, Life in California During a Residence of Several Years in That Territory (New York: Da Capo Press, 1969). A firsthand account of Californio life before the conquest, written by a sympathetic participant.
- Rohrbough, Malcolm I., Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1969). A very thorough study of the social and cultural effectof the Gold Rush on the Anglo American migrants.
- Sanchez, Rosaura, Telling Identities: The Californio Testimonios (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). An analysis of the oral histories of the Californios gathered by Hubert Howe Bancroft in the 19th century.
- Starr, Kevin, Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973). A sweeping cultural history of this important era written by the official state historian.