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Tag: 1840s California

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“She Will Be a Territory, and Then a State, of the American Confederacy, and Nothing Else”: News of California and the Mexican-American War in Letters from Niles’ National Register, 5 February 1848

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 5, 2026
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California Admission Day in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1854-1869

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 9, 2025
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from F.P.F. Temple to Abraham Temple, 26 December 1843

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 26, 2023
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Sharing Some History of the Rowland and Workman Expedition of 1841 at the Old Spanish Trail Association National Conference, Riverside

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 22, 2023October 22, 2023
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“Responsible for All the Evils and Misfortunes That May be Occasioned in a War So Unjust”: Documents from “New Mexico and California: Message of the President of the United States,” 24 July 1848, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 29, 2023July 30, 2023
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  • Politics & Government

“The Great Importance of Harmony and Cordial Co-Operation”: Documents from “New Mexico and California: Message of the President of the United States,” 24 July 1848, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 28, 2023
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“She Has Not the Strength to Uphold an Independent Sovreignty”: An Argument Against the Admission of California as a State in the “Daily National Intelligencer,” 7 March 1849

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 7, 2021
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Christmas in California: Tradition & Transformation

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 28, 2016December 30, 2020
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