Gadsen Purchase 1853
Mariano Vallejo and the Emergence of the Latino Body as Juridical Subject
The character of Don Alamar in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Squatter and the Don is modeled after Don Mariano Vallejo. Vallejo was instrumental in getting the landed Californio elite to accept "American" rule after the American 1848. Although the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo formally protected the legal rights of Mexicans, long legal challenges to Vallejo's land titles cost him his fortune and finally deprived him of almost all his land. Most Californios could not afford the legal expenses to claim their lands, which was thus lost to wealthy Americans and the flood of immigrants, beginning with the Gold Rush, which left the Californios outnumbered and unable to protect their political power.
Articles Pertaining to Mexicans in Newly Consolidated U.S.:
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