Christopher Columbus: Dale L. Walker, El Dorado: The California Gold Rush (2003), p. 16; Rodollfo Acuna, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004), p. 21.
Origins of California’s name: Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California (1890) p. 18: 66; Lynn Bowman, Los Angeles: Epic of a City (1974), p. 10; Stephen Schwartz, From West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind (1998), p. 14-5; Kevin Starr, California (2005), p. xv; Cynthia Lindsay, The Natives Are Restless (1960), p. 13; Charles Chapman, A History of California: the Spanish Period (1921), p. 58-61; The WPA Guide to California (1939), p. 41.
Hernán Cortés: Robert Sobel, The Pursuit of Wealth: The Incredible Story of Money Throughout the Ages (2000), p. 70; Bancroft, p. 18:1-7, 65-67; Willard, p. 19-22; Acuna, p. 22; WPA, p. 42.
Spanish arrival, 1769: WPA, p. 67; Bowman p. 11; Willard, p. 32-4; Douglas Monroy, Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (199), p. 20-1; Chapman, p. 181-5; Bolton, p. xvii-xix.
Gaspar de Portola: quoted in Academy of Pacific Coast History, Vol. 1 (1910).
Juan Crespi and earthquakes: Bolton, p 142-8; Bancroft, p. 18:146.
Abel Stearns: Doris Marion Wright, A Yankee in Mexican California: Abel Stearns, 1798-1848 (1977), passim; Donovan Lewis, Pioneers of California: True Stories of Early Settlers in the Golden State (1993), p. 449-53; Cleland, 132, 141, 184-205; Monroy, p. 156-7, 170. 228; Bancroft, p. 20:375; Remi Nadeau, City-Makers: The Story of Southern California’s First Boom 1868-1876 (1965), p. 18; Bowman, p. 181.
Rains destroy quarter of area’s taxable wealth: Cleland, p. 127.
Marking of Southern California land: Cleland, 203-5; Nadeau, p. 18; Glenn S. Dumke, p. 6-7.