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Alta California
[ ahl-tuh ]
noun
- a former Spanish colony of New Spain, in the modern-day states of California, Nevada, and N Arizona: ceded by Mexico to the United States 1848.
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As it went with Texas and Alta California so will it go with all our states.
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Ours is a bachelor community,” remarked the “Alta California,” “but nevertheless possessing strong domestic propensities.
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Two years ago,” said the “Alta California” in 1851, “trade was a wild unorganized whirl.
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There speaks young blood—the hot blood that lost us Texas and Alta California.
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The settlement was at once made capital of Alta California, and Portola appointed the first governor.
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