Eternity Street

by John Mack Faragher

  132 “to hoist”: Stockton to Bancroft, 1846.11.23, Bancroft 1849:9.

  133 “General Kearny is”: Bryant 1848:428.

  133 “Much must necessarily”: Marcy to Kearny, 1846.06.03, Polk 1847b:87.

  134 “a leap in the dark”: Cooke 1878:70.

  134 “The American flag”: Kearny to Roger Jones, 1846.12.12, Niles National Register, 1847.05.15.

  134 “The general feeling”: Griffin diary, 1846.10.06, Ames 1942:199.

  134 “It surprised me”: Kearny to Mary Kearny, 1846.12.19, Kearny 1990:192.

  135 “bragging like the devil”: Griffin diary, 1846.11.23, Ames 1942:209–10.

  135 “We are still to look”: Emory diary, 1846.12.01, Emory 1848:104.

  136 “Poor fellows”: Johnston, 1846.11.30, Johnston 1848:612.

  136 “country people”: Emory diary, 1846.12.03, Emory 1848:107.

  136 “in feudal style”: Griffin diary, 1846.12.04, Ames 1942:334.

  137 “comfortable and happy”: Emory diary, 1846.12.02, Emory 1848:105–6.

  137 “stimulated to work”: Johnston, 1846.12.02, Johnston 1848:613.

  137 “worse by far”: Griffin diary, 1846.12.02, Ames 1942:220.

  138 “were getting restless”: Coronel 1994:41.

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  139 Barton: Guinn 1901a:94.

  139 “If you see fit”: Stockton to Kearny, 1846.12.03, Porter 1909:104–5.

  140 “would send them all”: White 1956:56.

  140 Cupeño informants: Johnston, 1846.12.04, Johnston 1848:614.

  140 “received with great pleasure”: Gillespie to Stockton, 1846.12.25, Box 4, Doc. 140, Gillespie 1845–60.

  141 “Ellos son mas muchos”: Véjar 1877:68.

  141 “Be careful”: Rojo 1885.

  141 “to dismount them”: Clarke 1961:198.

  141 “wan, thin”: Dupont 1885:100.

  141 “No sir”: Davis 1889:420.

  141 “I then determined”: Kearny to R. Jones, 1846.12.13 “California Claims,” 1848: 514.

  141 “We were on”: Emory diary, 1846.12.05, Emory 1848:107–08.

  142 “The native Californians”: Camp 1922:34.

  142 “Californians of Spanish blood”: Gillespie to Bancroft, 1846.04.18, Ames 1938:136.

  142 “numerous as well as brave”: Davis 1889:421.

  142 “He did not want”: Botello 1878:154–55.

  142 “If General Kearny”: Warner 1876:25–26.

  142 “boots and saddles”: Griffin diary, 1846.12.11, Ames 1942:335.

  143 “Be steady”: Gillespie to Stockton, 1846.12.25, Box 4, Doc. 140, Gillespie 1845–60.

  143 “charge as foragers”: George Pearce, n.d., Munro-Fraser 1880:581.

  144 “Trot”: Dupont 1885:102.

  144 Johnston resolved: Harby 2012.

  144 “Un tiro”: Véjar 1877:71.

  144 “like so many alarm bells”: Gillespie to Stockton, 1846.12.25, Box 4, Doc. 140, Gillespie 1845–60.

  144 “The clouds hung low”: Roberts 1917:223.

  145 “For God’s sake”: Clarke 1961:209.

  145 “valiente Morin”: Woodward 1946:34–36.

  145 “Aquí vamos”: Davis 1889:423.

  146 “We trembled”: Roberts 1917:223–24.

  146 “this was no battle”: Rojo 1885.

  146 “Rally men”: Gillespie to Stockton, 1846.12.25, Box 4, Doc. 140, Gillespie 1845–60.

  146 “Such an affray”: Dupont 1885:103.

  146 “Asi se hace”: Véjar 1877.

  146 “Ya es Gillespie”: Gillespie to Stockton, 1846.12.25, Box 4, Doc. 140, Gillespie 1845–60.

  147 el güero: Foster 1877:9–10; Osio 1996:240; Rojo 1885.

  147 “Where’s the match?”: Gillespie to Bancroft, 1847.02.16, Ames 1938:344.

  148 “This was an action”: Griffin diary, 1846.12.11, Ames 1942:335-36.

  148 “it would have been well”: Dunne, 1878, Clarke 1961:216.

  148 “Another such victory”: Coy 1921:12.

  148 “without other casualty”: A. Pico to Flores, 1846.12.06, Janssens 1878:45–46.

  149 “We are without”: Turner to Stockton, 1846.12.06, Polk 1848a:186.

  150 “the firing with cannon”: Wilson 1934:113–14.

  151 “Stockton refused to send”: Griffin diary, 1846.12.11, Ames 1942:337.

  151 Panto: Smythe 1908:220.

  151 “We could see”: Woodward 1946:48.

  152 “to vindicate his”: Stockton, 1847.12.08, Polk 1848a:185–89.

  152 “I have thought”: Stockton to Turner, 1847.12.07, Cleland 1944:230; cf. original Spanish translation, Doc. 23, Coronel 1817–1894.

  153 “They all had”: Davis 1889:430-31.

  153 “burned to get”: Downey 1963:182.

  154 “Our General has”: Griffin diary, 1846.12.20, Ames 1942:340–41.

  154 “To arms”: Californian 1846.11.28.

  155 “to abstain”: Frémont to Mervine, 1846.11.27, Frémont 1970–84 2:233.

  155 “I denied nothing”: J. Pico 1878:72–73.

  155 “a lady”: St. Louis Union, 1847.01.15, Cutts 1847:161.

  155 “You were about”: Frémont 1887:599.

  156 “The impression”: John R. Wilson, 1848.02.19, “California Claims” 1848:42.

  156 “Bad weather”: Frémont to Stockton, 1847.01.02, Frémont 1970–84 2:249.

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  157 “We have had”: Griffin diary, 1846.12.20 and 1847.01.03, Ames 1942:340, 347.

  158 “We made”: Lugo 1950:208–9.

  158 “Do not wait”: Castro to Flores, received 1846.12.29, Rojo 1885.

  158 “Destiny’s cold hand”: Rojo 1885.

  159 “Our men”: Stockton to George Bancroft, 1847.02.05, Bancroft 1849:31.

  159 “We were actuated”: Downey 1963:200.

  159 “Keep your forces”: Stockton to Frémont, 1847.01.03, Bancroft 1849:272–73.

  160 “to avoid the useless”: Flores to Stockton, 1847.01.01, Bancroft 1849:19–20.

  160 “whom I had captured”: Stockton to John Y. Mason, 1848.02.18, Polk 1849:1051.

  160 “that he was a rebel”: Stockton to Bancroft, 1847.01.15, Bancroft 1849:20–21.

  161 “a general amnesty”: Stockton, proclamation, 1847.01.05, Brockmann 2009:203.

  161 “Ladies were soon”: Emory diary, 1847.01.07, Emory 1848:119.

  162 “I want you all”: Downey 1963:202.

  162 “Before we had fairly”: Downey 1963:203–4.

  163 “Do or die”: Downey 1963:205–8.

  163 “There is quicksand”: Gillespie to Bancroft, 1847.02.16, Ames 1938:345.

  163 “Quicksand be damned!” Guinn and Barrows 1889:76–77.

  164 “They aimed chiefly”: Coronel 1994:47–48.

  164 “Down they came”: Downey 1963:208–10.

  165 “strange emotions”: Warner 1876:23.

  165 “no matter who”: Downey 1963:214–15.

  165 “I thought”: Coronel 1994:48.

  166 “solely on a point”: Warner 1876:23.

  166 “We all considered”: Emory diary, 1846.01.09, Emory 1848:120–21.

  167 “They kept up”: Downey 1963:213.

  167 “The streets were full”: Emory diary, 1846.01.10, Emory 1848:121–22.

  168 “No sooner”: Downey 1963:215.

  168 “All I could do”: Juanita de Díos Rendon, 1847.10.29, Torres-Rouff 2006:183–84.

  168 “We have marched”: Watson 1990:280.

  168 “The forces”: Colton 1850:167–68.

  168 “nothing heard”: Griffin diary, 1847.01.11, Ames 1942:353.

  169 “We are in possession”: Kearny to Frémont, 1847.01.10, Bancroft 1882–90 22:402n.

  169 “conquering by clemency”: Frémont 1848.01.24, Polk 1848a:379.

  169 “The arch-ruffian”: Smith 1919 1:345–46.

  169 “I no longer flattered”: A. Pico to P. Pico, 1847.04.05, Pico 1934:132–34.

  170 “as long as”: Rojo 1885.

  170 “We ar
e ready”: Dupont 1885:115.

  170 “they would take”: McLane 1971:102–3.

  171 “return peaceably”: Treaty of Cahuenga, 1847.01.13, http://www.militarymuseum.org/Cahuenga.html, accessed 2011.10.07.

  171 “I have the honor”: Frémont to Kearny, 1847.01.13, Frémont 1970–84 2:257–58.

  171 “The junior officers”: Griffin diary, 1847.01.14, Ames 1942:41–42.

  172 “This was the end”: Pico to Pico, 1847.04.05, Pico 1934:132–34.

  CHAPTER 11

  173 “As long as”: Wilson 1934:123.

  174 “There is something”: Watson diary, 1847.01.14, Watson 1990:284.

  174 “I am informed”: Kearny to Stockton, 1847.01.16, Taylor 1850:267.

  174 “I need say”: Stockton to Kearny, 1847.01.16, Taylor 1850:268.

  175 “playing a grab game”: McLane 1971:104.

  175 “to terminate his”: Stockton to John Y. Mason, 1848.02.18, Polk 1849:1037–54.

  175 “With great deference”: Frémont to Kearny, 1847.01.17, Polk 1848a:6.

  175 “he would unquestionably”: Kearny, 1847.11.04, 39.

  175 “I had contracted”: Frémont to Thomas Hart Benton, 1847.02.03, Frémont 1970–84 2:284.

  175 “there is, or should be”: Bancroft 1882–90 22:432.

  176 “I am not recognized”: Kearny to Adjutant General Roger Jones, 1847.01.17, Polk 1848a:94–95.

  176 “a collision between us”: Kearny to Stockton, 1847.01.17, Grivas 1961:71, emphasis added.

  176 “I should not”: Stockton to Mason, 1848.02.18, Polk 1849:1054, emphasis added.

  176 “thus trying to incite”: Watson diary, 1847.02.02, Watson 1990:290–91, emphasis added.

  176 Duvall recorded gossip: Duvall 1957:93.

  176 “Frémont has a large force”: Wilson 1934:124–25, emphasis added.

  177 “Frémont deliberately”: Coronel 1994:34.

  177 “The young women danced”: Lugo 1950:212–13.

  177 “Throughout the Californian”: Frémont to Benton, 1847.02.03, Frémont 1970–84 2:283-84.

  178 “He wears the sombrero”: Duvall 1957:53–54.

  178 “He gave rowdy balls”: William Rich Hutton to William Rich, 1849.08.19, Hutton 1942:31.

  178 “Frémont’s a low fellow”: Ord 1978:24.

  178 “harem, publicly established”: Star 1856.09.08.

  178 Geronimo López: Prudhomme 1932:315.

  178 “You damned rascal”: Foster 1877:9–10.

  178 “favors the country”: Gillespie to Larkin, 1847.03.05, Larkin 1951–68 6:37.

  179 “I will, agreeably”: Kearny to Roger Jones, 1847.01.14, Polk 1848a:80.

  179 “You see how transitory”: Stockton to John R. Thompson, 1847.02.06, Brockmann 2009:222.

  179 “Viewing my position”: Frémont to Willard P. Hall, 1847.02.11, Polk 1848a:10–11.

  179 published a circular: Kearny, “To the People of California,” 1847.03.01, Californian 1847.03.06.

  180 “waiting for something”: Foster 1888:48.

  180 “My place”: Foster 1888:48–51.

  181 “unsafe at this time”: William H. Russell to Cooke, 1847.03.16, Polk 1848a:15.

  181 “I told him”: Cooke 1878:290–92.

  181 “If these Americans”: Cooke to H. S. Turner, 1847.03.25, Polk 1848a:124–25.

  182 New York Regiment of Volunteers: Biggs 1977.

  182 “There were men”: Walter Murray, 1878, Bancroft 1882–90 22:505.

  182 “the Mormons were cannibals”: Tyler 1881:276.

  183 “Last night we were”: Standage diary, 1847.04.25, Golder 1928:219.

  183 “With the prospect”: Tyler 1881:280.

  183 “when I send”: Hollingsworth 1923:247.

  183 “so much fuss”: Foster 1877:19–20.

  183 “None of your insolence”: Bigelow 1856:205.

  184 “I this morning”: Kearny to Jones, 1847.05.13, Taylor 1849a:292–93.

  184 “Americans Should Rule”: Price 1967:68.

  184 “Frémont disappointed”: Dorrance 1987:167.

  CHAPTER 12

  185 “a Territory of the United States”: Stockton, proclamation, 1846.08.17, Polk 1847a:672.

  185 “make all needful rules”: Constitution of the United States, Art. IV, Sec. 3.

  185 “Foreign countries occupied”: Davis, 1846.12.09, Chase 1850:178–79n.

  186 “similar to that”: William L. Marcy to Kearny, 1846.06.03, Polk 1847b:85.

  186 “The possession of portions”: John Young Mason to Stockton, 1847.01.11, Polk 1848a:56–58.

  186 “This is a military”: Mason to L. W. Boggs, 1847.06.02, Taylor 1849b:317–18.

  186 “dislike the change”: Mason to Roger Jones, 1847.06.18, Taylor 1849a:298–99.

  187 “preserved a quiet”: Stevenson 1886:29–30.

  187 “No doubt”: S. C. Rowan to Griffin, 1847.07.28, Warren 1954–55:251.

  188 “no Californios came”: Stevenson to Governor Mason, 1847.07.13, Stevenson 1974.

  188 “belle of the evening”: H. H. F. Toye, 1847.07.04, Hollingsworth 1923:239.

  189 “danced like a bear”: Foster 1877:34.

  189 “When this was communicated”: Stevenson to Mason, 1847.07.13, Stevenson 1974.

  189 “When a man”: Foster 1877:34–41.

  190 Julien Bartolet: “Averiguacion sumaria para indagar la muerte de Julian Bartelott,” 1847.07.10, ACR 7:725–62.

  190 “to act with all rigor”: “The French People Residing in the City of Los Angeles” to Stevenson, 1847.07.16, Los Angeles County 1834–49, “Los Angeles County Prefecture Records” 2:534–35 (hereafter cited as PR).

  190 “the worst of it”: Griffin diary, 1847.08.14, Ames 1942:62.

  191 “I have a guard”: Hollingsworth diary, 1847.08.06, Hollingsworth 1923:242.

  191 “Poco tiempo”: California Star 1848.01.22; Guinn 1901a:102.

  192 “Everything is quiet”: Hollingsworth diary, 1847.12.04, Hollingsworth 1923:243.

  192 Stevenson received intelligence: Guinn 1897c:147.

  192 “As night came on”: Hollingsworth diary, 1847.12.09, Hollingsworth 1923:244–46.

  193 “the worst class”: Stevenson to Mason, 1847.12.19, Bancroft 1882–90 22:626n.

  193 “I then knew”: Foster, n.d., Guinn and Barrows 1889:91.

  193 “But no attention”: Foster, 1891, Robinson 1949:321.

  193 nine murders: Faragher 2014.

  194 “yo establa”: “Criminal para indagar la muerte del Capitan Yerbavuena,” 1847.04.06, ACR 7:794–830.

  194 “motherfucker”: “Criminal Contra Pedro Pacheco por la muerte de Jose Maria Machado,” 1848.09.04, ACR 5:1184–1221.

  195 “deserting rapidly”: Hollingsworth diary, 1848.07.18, Hollingsworth 1923:253–54.

  195 “The gold fever”: Hollingsworth diary, 1848.08.02, Hollingsworth 1923:253–55.

  195 “Americans and Californians”: Mason, 1848.08.06, Bancroft 1882–90 22:591–92.

  196 “the great law of necessity”: Buchanan to William V. Voorhies, 1848.10.07, Taylor 1849b:7.

  196 “The pueblo has changed”: Griffin to Stevenson, 1849.03.11, Griffin 1949:9.

  196 “It is known”: Bennett C. Riley to W. T. Sherman, 1849.04.16, Taylor 1849a:876.

  CHAPTER 13

  202 “Don Pedro”: Bell 1881:36.

  202 “Nigger Pete”: Newmark 1916:137–38.

  202 “I remained”: Hayes diary, 1850.02.05, Hayes 1929:71–72.

  202 “I threw myself alone”: Hayes diary, 1849.09.10, Hayes 1929:13–14.

  203 “Last night”: Hayes diary, 1849.09.20, Hayes 1929:17.

  203 “a polite”: Hayes diary, 1849.10.28, Hayes 1929:28–29.

  203 “surrounded by squaws”: Hayes diary, 1850.01.23, Hayes 1929:58.

  204 “Rowland is married”: Hayes diary, 1850.01.31, Hayes 1929:69.

  204 “Twilight had just”: Hayes diary, 1850.02.01, Hayes 1929:69–70.

  204 “The whole scene”: Hayes diary, 1850.02
.03, Hayes 1929:71–72.

  205 “And thereupon”: Griffin to J. D. Stevenson, 1849.03.11, Griffin 1949:9.

  205 “held a public meeting”: Wilson 1934:124–26.

  206 “So little interest”: Foster, 1878, Barrows 1893a:63.

  206 “It has been the custom”: Browne 1850:371.

  206 “It was not”: Browne 1850:11.

  206 “begged leave”: Browne 1850:22.

  207 “Negro Alley”: Star 1853.01.29, clipping Hayes 1877b 49:119.

  207 a group of drunken Americans: “Causa Criminal contra el Americano Santiago Ollin,” 1850.01.04, ACR 6:979–89.

  208 “without any provocation”: “Causa Criminal contra los individuos que atacaron la casa de Don Santiago Monet,” 1850.01.07, ACR 6:776–804.

  208 “gringo”: “People v. James R. Vansand,” Box 1, #85, Criminal/Seaver.

  208 Patrick Mooney: “Causa Instruida contra Patricio Mune [sic],” 1850.02.12, ACR 6:1070–83.

  209 “Our town”: Foster to Governor Peter H. Burnett, 1850.02.20, PR 2:833-34; also see Foster to Brigadier General B. Riley, 1850.02.25, PR 2:835–36.

  209 Stephen Cribbs: “Inventario de los bienes del finado Thomas Cribbs,” 1850.02.14, ACR 6:1163–92.

  210 “sons of the sunny South”: Hayes 1877b 43:4.

  210 “a tall and powerful”: Brier 1903:463–64.

  210 Purdy: Broadstone 1918 1:547, 740; Harrold 1986:36, 42, 51.

  210 “They told me”: Case 31 [no title], 1850.01.07, ACR 6:766–75.

  211 “Poor Purdy”: Hayes 1877b 43:5.

  211 crusading editor: Buchanan 1956:11.

  211 “Our city has been”: Foster to Burnett, 1850.03.12, PR 2:840–42.

  212 he received a response: J. Hamilton to Foster, 1850.03.28, PR 2:883.

  CHAPTER 14

  213 “a secret junta”: Hayes 1929:186–87.

  213 “punctilious, perhaps”: Warner 1876:35.

  214 the judicial system: Bakken 2003; Bacon 1905.

  214 Oliver S. Witherby: Uberti 1978.

  215 “But notwithstanding”: “Francesca Pérez Silvas vs. Mariano Silvas,” 1851.01.06, Box 1, #25, Los Angeles County 1850–79, “District Court. Civil Cases” (hereafter cited as DCC).

  215 “divorce from bed”: Friedman 1984:652–55.

  215 “using offensive words”: “Criminal contra Mariano Silvas por golpes a su mujer,” 1844.04.12, ACR 4:892–914; Chavez-García 2004:25.

  216 “gross and abusive”: “Francesca Pérez Silvas vs. Mariano Silvas,” 1851.01.06, Box 1, #25, DCC.