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Alcatraz Island and the Workman and Temple Families, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 7, 2019December 29, 2020
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Commodore Robert F. Stockton’s Report on Military and Naval Operations in California, 16 February 1849, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 22, 2019December 29, 2020
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New Mexico and California: Message of President James K. Polk to the House of Representatives, 24 July 1848

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  • Posted on July 24, 2018January 8, 2021
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Portrait Gallery/On This Day: Nicholas P. Trist and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 2 February 1848

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  • Posted on February 2, 2018January 11, 2021
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