301 “an old grudge”: Southern Californian 1855.01.11.
302 “I believed”: “People vs. Josiah Hart,” 1854.06.04, Box 2, #180, Criminal/Seaver.
302 “he did not consider”: Star 1855.01.11.
303 “Boys, he has”: Southern Californian 1855.01.11; Star 1855.01.18; King 1935:14.
303 grand jury declined: Star 1855.02.08.
303 “We had hoped”: Southern Californian 1855.01.11.
303 “Poor woman”: Woods diary, 1855.01.08, Bynum 1941:80.
304 “Land is a natural”: Star 1855.02.01.
304 “chained up”: Woods diary, 1854.12.21, Bynum 1941:78–79; Southern Californian 1854.10.26
304 “Brown was asleep”: Woods diary, 1855.01.07, Bynum 1941:80.
304 stay of execution: Southern Californian 1855.01.04, 1855.01.11; Star 1855.01.11.
305 delayed in transit: Hayes 1929:108.
305 “inflamed the native”: Warner 1876:38.
305 “raised a public clamor”: Bell 1930:242.
305 Francisco P. Ramírez: Gray 2012.
305 Pancho: Warner 1876:46.
306 “committed crimes”: Star 1855.01.11.
306 “When you start”: Ibid.
306 “ready to take”: Southern Californian 1855.01.11.
307 “unequivocally proclaimed”: Southern Californian 1855.01.12, reprinted Alta California 1855.01.16.
308 call for volunteers: Star 1855.01.18.
308 “Extensive and determined”: Southern Californian 1855.01.12, reprinted Alta California 1855.01.16.
308 “Alvitre was just”: Star 1855.01.18.
309 “Arriba”: Warner 1876:28–29.
309 “half-dead”: Bancroft 188–90 36:496.
309 “In a moment”: Star 1855.01.18.
309 “Señores”: Ibid.
310 “Ahorcar”: New York Tribune 1855.02.08.
310 “Words fail”: Warner 1876:28–29.
311 “He evinced”: Southern Californian 1855.01.18.
311 “but if I did”: Star 1855.01.18.
311 “lot of Greasers”: Newmark 1916:140.
311 cañada de los muertos: Guinn 1897:146.
311 “Thus ended”: Star 1855.01.18.
311 “The omnipotence”: Southern Californian 1855.01.18.
311 “wished to see”: Star 1855.01.18.
312 “No man”: “People vs. Lee,” 5 Cal. 353 (1855); Star 1855.07.21.
312 “Lee has returned”: Star 1855.12.01; Peterson 1956:108–19.
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315 “Within four or five”: Star 1855.09.08.
315 “plain country fare”: Truman 1874a:168.
316 “large organized band”: Alta California 1855.05.28.
316 “say their prayers”: Ibid.
317 issued warrants: Hayes 1877b 43:464–65.
317 “We the undersigned”: Citizens to Judge Hayes, 1855.05.16, Hayes 1877b 43:464–65.
317 declined to prosecute: Spitzzeri 2005a:91.
317 a different posse: Southern Californian 1855.05.30, clipping Hayes 1877b 43:470; Star 1855.06.02.
317 “We have”: Southern Californian 1855.05.23, clipping Hayes 1877b 43:468.
318 “So the work goes”: Southern Californian 1855.05.30, clipping Hayes 1877b 43:468, 470.
318 “we wish them”: Star 1855.05.26.
318 “lynch law reigns”: Star 1855.02.08.
318 “Law without arms”: Star 1855.04.07.
318 “we must satisfy”: El Clamor Público 1856.05.31.
318 “The editor”: Alta California 1855.02.02.
319 “Our country”: Star 1855.02.22.
319 “devoted exclusively”: Star 1855.05.12.
320 thirty-three murders: Sacramento Daily Union 1855.12.31.
320 shootout on the Plaza: Star 1855.03.10.
320 “all persons who”: California Legislature 1855:217.
320 “A portion of the people”: Southern Californian 1855.07.04.
321 “widens the barriers”: El Clamor Público 1855.07.24.
321 “Though rather distant”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1856.06.11.
321 “Bien hecho”: El Clamor Público 1856.05.31.
322 “Cruz was looked upon”: Star 1856.07.19.
322 “We are all linked”: El Clamor Público 1856.07.19.
322 “Por favor”: El Clamor Público 1856.07.26.
323 “Give it to me”: Star 1856.07.26.
323 “sorry for having”: Star 1856.07.26.
324 “He who commits”: Wallace diary, 1855.07.19, Wallace 1854–58.
324 “making other bellicose:” El Clamor Público 1856.07.26.
325 “evincing a deep emotion”: Hayes 1877b 43:584–86.
325 “the Judge did justice”: Ibid.
325 “The population of the city”: El Clamor Público 1856.07.26.
325 “destroy all the Americans”: William G. Dryden, deposition, 1856.08.04, Hayes 1877b 43:600.
325 “might be fired on”: Hayes 1877b 43:584–86.
326 “American graveyard”: Star 1856.07.19.
326 “they should consider”: El Clamor Público 1856.08.02.
326 “In this country”: “People vs. Fernando Carriaga,” 1856.07.24, Box 4, #271, Criminal/Seaver.
327 “Vámonos”: Ibid.
327 “Quien vive”: Ibid.
327 “The truth is”: Hayes 1877b 43:584–86.
328 “disorderly or suspicious”: Star 1856.07.26.
328 “agreeing to their own”: El Clamor Público 1856.08.16.
328 Handlin: Star 1856.08.02; El Clamor Público 1856.08.02.
329 “We will not take”: Star 1856.07.26.
329 “Companies are now”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1856.07.29.
329 “Being myself”: Hayes 1877b 43:584–86.
329 “without deliberation”: Hayes 1877b 43:620.
329 “I passed the next day”: Hayes 1877b 43:584–86.
330 “the first prosecution”: Hayes 1877b 43:605–6.
330 “it appearing to me”: “People vs. Fernando Carriaga,” 1856.07.24, Box 4, #271, Criminal/Seaver.
331 “further remark”: Hayes 1877b 43:605–06.
331 “What was her”: El Clamor Público 1856.08.23.
332 “an Indian woman”: María Candelaria Pollorena de Lazos vs. Casimino Lazos, 1855.03.12, Box 6, #184, DCC.
332 “false in every detail”: El Clamor Público 1856.08.23.
332 declining to indict: Star 1856.08.23.
333 “Everyone knows”: El Clamor Público 1856.07.26.
333 “Let us work”: El Clamor Público 1856.08.16.
333 “Ruiz is in his”: El Clamor Público 1856.08.23; claim of authorship, Hayes 1877b 43:586.
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337 Barton ranch: “Tract of land belonging to J. Barton,” 1854.12.17, SR Box 26 (26).01 and “Plat of Los Nietos Township,” 1862, SR Map 0250.01B, Los Angeles City and County 1845–c1910; Cole 1981:28.
337 “large and flourishing”: California Farmer 1856.11.28.
337 English walnuts: Los Angeles Herald 1898.01.02.
337 María del Espiritu Santo: Baptism record, SJC: 04335, ECPP 2006.
337 acknowledged as his offspring: Barton, codicil, 1854.08.24, “Legal documents re estate of Sheriff James Barton,” “Documents for the History of Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles,” 1846–1908.
338 “He was an uncouth”: Bell 1930:72-73.
338 “some alleged ill treatment”: Bell 1881:384.
338 medio indio: Star 1857.02.07.
338 Andrés Fuentes: Bell 1881:390.
338 siblings: Baptism records for parents SJC: 02953 and 03279, ECPP 2006.
339 “Here comes another”: El Clamor Público 1856.10.04.
340 “whose vile ‘Greaser’ laws”: El Clamor Público 1856.11.01.
340 “to produce a rift”: Star 1856.11.15.
340 “What name will”: El Clamor Público 1856.11.15.
340 “an ordinary appearing”: San Jose Evening
News 1917.10.27.
340 “a dark complexioned”: Bell 1881:382.
340 convicted and sentenced: Southern Californian 1855.04.18.
341 “whenever he got out”: Coronel 1994:72.
341 “on condition”: Bell 1881:384.
341 missed him: Coronel 1994:72–73.
341 set out for home: Daily Evening Bulletin 1857.02.03.
342 “I looked upon myself”: Meadows 1963:156–57.
342 “they would kill”: Testimony of Henry Charles, “People vs. Luciano Tapia,” 1857.12.14, Box 5, #337, Criminal/Seaver.
342 “François”: Coronel 1994:72.
343 set off at a furious pace: Bell 1930:72–74.
343 “seized with terror”: Newmark 1916:205.
343 “down upon the Americans “: Forster to Cave Johnson Couts, 1857.01.27, CT 732, Couts 1831–1951.
343 “raised the standard”: Bell 1881:384.
343 “threatened the extermination”: Bancroft 1882–90 36:498.
343 “quasi-revolutionary”: Griswold del Castillo 1979:109.
343 “the Sonoreans and Mexicans”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1857.02.03.
344 “The robbers use”: Forster to Cave Johnson Couts, 1857.01.27, CT 732, Couts 1831–1951.
344 “The party made”: Star 1857.01.31.
345 staged this ambush: Coronel 1994:72–73.
345 “There is Juan Flores”: Alta California 1857.02.01; Star 1857.01.31.
345 “We have got”: Ibid.
345 Little stopped firing: Alta California 1857.02.15; Wallace identified as correspondent, Wallace 1854–58.
345 “Barton fought”: Ibid.
345 “Now kill me”: Ibid.
346 “Thus ended”: Bell 1881:386.
346 the bodies: Star 1857.01.31, El Clamor Público 1857.01.31.
346 “I am sadly afraid”: John Forster to Cave Johnson Couts, 1857.01.27, CT 732, Couts 1831–1951.
346 “His party returned”: Wallace diary, 1857.01.28, Wallace 1854–58.
347 “We poor Americans”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1857.02.03.
347 “There is a call”: Alta California 1857.02.01.
347 “Parents, brothers and sisters”: Star 1857.01.31.
348 Antonio María Varela: Sacramento Daily Union 1857.02.02, identified as “Antonio María Bariles.”
348 “could not stand”: Varela, petition, 1854.11.28, Brown-Coronel 2011:65.
348 “We are bound”: El Clamor Público 1857.01.31.
349 “In the matter”: Star 1857.01.31.
349 not once but twice: q.v. “Barton,” federal manuscript census, Los Angeles California, 1860 and 1870.
349 registered to vote: California Voter Registers, 1866–98, http://www.ancestry.com.
349 “This is to show”: “In the Matter of the Estate of José Santiago Barton, Deceased,” Tuttle and Carpenter 1906:538; Los Angeles Herald 1878.02.20.
349 a bountiful property: Guinn 1907f 2:1117; Pacific Rural Press 1877.12.08; Los Angeles Herald 1879.01.12.
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351 “When the word came”: Los Angeles Herald 1899.04.24
352 “most useful man”: Warner 1876:42.
353 “came forward:” El Clamor Público 1857.03.21.
353 “with a brutality”: El Clamor Público 1857.02.14.
353 “a number of arrests”: Star 1857.01.31.
353 “threw themselves”: El Clamor Público 1857.01.31.
353 “all in favor”: Alta California 1857.02.15.
353 “Death”: El Clamor Público 1857.03.21.
354 “an old offender”: Star 1857.02.07.
354 “Nothing less”: El Clamor Público 1857.04.04.
354 “We will not forget”: El Clamor Público 1857.02.07.
355 “Neither did I”: White 1956:85–86, 89; also see Barrows 1896b.
355 “I had to adjourn”: Alta California 1857.02.15.
355 torchlight meeting: Star 1857.01.31.
356 “There was really”: Alta California 1857.02.15.
356 “He entered each house”: Ibid.
356 “were there simply”: El Clamor Público 1857.04.04.
356 “We hope”: El Clamor Público 1857.01.31.
357 “I want that boy”: White 1956:89.
357 fifty-one lanceros: Star 1857.02.07.
357 hideout: John Forster to John S. Griffin, 1857.01.30, Box 29, Stearns 1821-1935.
360 “We galloped”: “People vs. Luciano Tapia,” 1857.12.14, Box 5, #337, Criminal/Seaver.
360 Accounts differ: Star 1857.02.07; El Clamor Público 1857.02.07; Alta California 1857.02.15.
360 “The town is in”: Alta California 1857.02.15.
361 Precitos Canyon: Arellano 2009.
361 two men guarding the trail: Star 1857.02.07.
361 “He rests quietly”: El Clamor Público 1857.02.07.
362 “He has run”: Alta California 1857.02.15.
362 summary justice: Star 1857.02.07; El Clamor Público 1857.02.21, 1857.03.21.
362 “We, the thieves”: Star 1857.02.14.
363 “to prove their innocence”: Alta California 1857.02.15; Star 1857.02.14.
363 “honor bound”: Star 1857.02.14.
363 “threats of violence”: El Clamor Público 1857.02.07.
363 killed shopkeeper George Pflugardt: Alta California 1857.02.15.
363 “very respectably connected”: Coronel 1994:204.
364 “Let us not”: El Clamor Público 1857.02.14.
364 “patted on the shoulder”: Star 1857.02.14.
364 “was the fatal result”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1857.03.02.
364 “Old Scott rose”: Alta California c1857.02.25, clipping Wallace 1854–58.
365 “It was of course”: El Clamor Público 1857.02.21.
365 “before being released”: El Clamor Público 1857.04.04.
365 “It was generally”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1857.03.02.
365 “the Americans were for”: Alta California c1857.02.25, clipping Wallace 1854–58.
365 “shocked and horrified”: El Clamor Público 1857.02.21.
366 “All who are in favor”: Alta California c1857.02.25, clipping Wallace 1854–58.
366 “There was nothing”: Star 1857.02.21.
367 “He was hung”: Alta California c1857.02.25, clipping Wallace 1854–58.
367 “Those who seek”: El Clamor Público 1857.02.21.
367 “inasmuch as they”: Alta California 1857.12.26.
368 “It was a happy day”: El Clamor Público 1858.02.20.
368 “Considerable uneasiness”: Alta California 1858.03.27.
368 “There is here”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1858.02.26.
369 “It will be”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1858.08.24.
369 “I hope you”: Hayes diary, 1857.09.17, Hayes 1929:166–67.
370 “All my life”: Sacramento Daily Union 1858.07.28.
371 “He rather broke down”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1858.12.06.
371 “accidentally hung”: Spitzzeri 2005a:96-97.
372 “a committee acting”: Star 1858.12.04.
372 “out of the way”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1858.12.06.
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373 “We can not find”: El Clamor Público 1858.12.04.
373 “News of the barbaric”: El Clamor Público 1858.12.18.
373 “a young man”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1858.06.28.
373 “a great wrong”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1858.12.11.
374 “It is indeed awful”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1858.06.28.
374 “would have continued”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1859.01.26.
374 “We have had quiet”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1858.12.11.
374 by the numbers: Faragher 2014; the mean annual homicide rate dropped from 390/100,000 (1850–54) to 109 (1858–62).
375 “There is the same”: Star 1858.04.17.
375 “This is an awful “: Smith to Joseph F. Smith, 1857.03.19, Compton 1997:162.
375 “Ther
e has been”: Daily Evening Bulletin 1859.10.27.
375 thirty felony indictments: Southern Vineyard 1859.12.22.
375 “foragers at the public”: Bell 1930:72.
376 “somewhat undersized”: Robinson 1979:164.
377 “whom I would like”: Bernard Reid to John C. Reid, 1850.05.30, Reid 1983:198.
377 “colonel”: Sacramento Transcript 1850.08.16.
377 younger brothers: Alta California 1851.01.10, 1851.09.21, 1851.09.25, 1853.06.20; Panama Herald 1853.08.12, http://www.sfgenealogy.com/californiabound/cb187.htm.
377 “big guns”: Weekly San Joaquin Republican 1855.12.08.
377 “a damn Know Nothing”: Alta California 1854.11.09.
378 “drove him almost”: Los Angeles Herald 1879.11.27.
378 “new fields of glory”: Star 1855.12.15.
378 “Look here”: Harrison 1953:50.
378 “the spirit of conquest”: Bell 1881:212.
378 “a Whig of olden time”: Star 1856.09.20.
379 “a fighter from way back”: Bell 1930:12.
379 “The greater portion”: Alta California 1858.09.13.
379 “My daughter was”: Bell 1930:102–03.
379 “promenading the parlor”: Star 1858.09.18.
380 “I was sitting”: Bell 1930:102–03.
380 “Dorsey, I have”: Star 1858.09.11; Alta California 1858.09.13.
380 “It had to be”: Brackett 1920:84-85.
381 “the citizen corporal”: Southern Vineyard 1859.06.10.
381 “sneaked into a country”: Southern Vineyard 1859.08.10.
381 “so notoriously corrupt”: Star 1859.07.30.
382 “I am a Republican”: Star 1895.07.09.
382 “It is unbelievable”: El Clamor Público 1859.12.24.
382 formal challenge: Star 1859.07.09.
382 “Dueling, shooting “: Star 1859.09.24.
383 “It places the district”: Star 1860.04.14.
383 “Here is the maiden”: Barrows 1893b:56.
384 “Whatever disaster”: Star 1860.11.10.
384 “We are on the highway”: Star 1861.01.05.
384 “southern from nature”: Hayes to Emma Thompson, 1861.02.14, Hayes 1929:256.
384 “sick at heart”: Hayes to Edward M. Samuel, 1861.02.11, Hayes 1929:253.
385 “This grim catastrophe”: Benjamin 1956 2:101.
385 “They would be put”: Ridley to General William C. Kibbe, 1861.03.09, Armistead 2003.
385 “To all of them”: Los Angeles Herald 1880.10.13.
385 “go South”: Los Angeles Herald 1884.11.27.
386 “Chino” Varela: Smith 1977:121, 123; Brown-Coronel 2011:75; Bancroft 1882–90 24:204n.
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