TY  - BOOK
AU  - Colton,Walter
TI  - Three years in California [1846-1849]
AV  - F865 .C7
U1  - 917.94 
PY  - 1850///
CY  - New York, Cincinnati
PB  - A.S. Barnes & co., H.W. Derby & co.
KW  - Colton, Walter,
KW  - Law
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - California
KW  - Mines and mineral resources
KW  - Business
KW  - History
KW  - 1846-1850
KW  - Sources
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - Facsimile: "Declaration of rights in the constitution of California, and the signatures of the members of the Convention."; Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site
N2  - Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey, a post to which he was elected a few months later. He remained in California until 1849, using his time to found the state's first newspaper and building its first schoolhouse. Three years in California (1850) contains Colton's memoirs of that period, including descriptions of the U.S. military occupation of California, social life and customs of Monterey, discovery of gold and firsthand impressions of the Sonora mining camp in the Southern Mines, visits to Stockton and San Jos,̌ John Charles Frm̌ont, the Constitutional Convention of 1849, and California missions
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.009
ER  -