Foreigners in their native land: historical roots of the Mexican Americans
Edited by David Weber; Foreword by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz
- Albuquerque, NM Univer of New Mexico 1973
- 288 p
Includes Index
New Spain's Far Northern Frontier -- Church and State / Luis de Velasco -- Frontier Military / Antonio Martinez -- "Contributions are small" / Francisco Martinez de Baeza -- A Communal Land Grant / Lorenzo Marquis & Antonio Jose Ortiz -- Mestizaje / First Los Angeles Census -- "Most hardy subjects" / Zebulon M. Pike ; Miguel Ramos de Arizpe -- "There were no paupers" / Jose Agustin de Escudero -- "Backward" New Mexico / Pedro Bautista Pino -- The "wretched village" of San Antonio / Juan Agustin Morfi -- The Romantic Frontier / Guadalupe Vallejo ; George Wharton James -- Yankee Infiltration and the Hardening of Stereotypes -- "Calculating the profit" / Carlos Dehault Delassus -- "Indications are very dangerous" / Joaquin del Real Alencaster -- California "would fall without an effort" / William Shaler -- The Black Legend / William Robertson -- "Degenerate inhabitants of New Mexico" / Rufus B. Sage -- "Blood ... as ditch water" / Walter Prescott Webb -- "An ill opinion of the Mexicans" / Jose Maria Sanchez -- "Lazy people of vicious character" / Jose Maria Sanchez -- "Industrious, honest North American settlers" / Ayuntamiento of San Antonio -- "Waiting the result" / Thomas O. Larkin -- Cultures Collide -- "I am warning you" / Manuel Mier y Teran -- "The two people cannot mingle together" / Committee of Vigilance & Public Safety, San Augustin -- "Their decision irrevocably sealed their fate" / Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna -- "Texians! Render every possible assistance" / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin -- "War ... our final salvation" / Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil -- "The sacrificial goat" / Pio Pico -- "We would have made some kind of resistance" / 105 New Mexicans -- "Keep yourselves quiet" / Donaciano Vigil -- Reactions to Defeat / Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid ; Juan Bautista Alvarado ; Anguistias de la Guerra Ord -- "A duty before God" / William P. Rogers, Robert F. Stockton -- "The Government of a white race" / John C. Calhoun -- All the Rights of Citizens -- "Their property, their persons, their religion" / Stephen Watts Kearny -- "All the rights of citizens" / Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- "For me the placers were finished" / Antonio F. Coronel -- "Hung as suspects" / El Clamor Publico -- "A foreigner in my native land" / Juan Nepomuceno Seguin -- "No justice for the Mexicans in Texas" / Comision Pesquisadora -- "A set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans" / A Texas Ranger -- "Parceled out to Mexicans" / Tucson Citizen -- "Compelled to sell, little by little" / Antonio Maria Pico, et. al. -- "A denial of justice" / Public Land Commission -- Accommodation, Assimilation, and Resistance -- "Revenge took possession of me" / Tiburcio Vasquez ; Joaquin Murrieta -- "To defend ourselves" / Juan Nepomuceno Cortina -- Las Gorras Blancas / Nuestra Plataforma ; Felix Martinez -- "In sympathy" / N.A. Jennings -- "Volunteers, both Mexicans and Americans" / Juan I. Tellez -- "Now or never" / La Voz del Pueblo ; Constitution of New Mexico -- "Por la raza y para la raza" / Congreso Mexicanista -- A Sample from the Press / El Labrador -- Workers from Mexico: Three Views. Mexican / Diario del Hogar ; Anglo American / Samuel Bryan ; Mexican American / El Labrador.