Californio
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Californios
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Andres Pico was a Californio statesmen and acting governor of Alta California, and Lt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
Nearly all the local Californio ranchers lost their lands through bankruptcy, fire sales, or to sons-in-laws who married Mexican women mostly for their inheritance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
As someone once pointed out, the great Californio families were uncommonly blessed with daughters, and these daughters sometimes married ambitious Yankees and took family land with them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2021
“There was a point where if the Californio forces had better ammunition and better arms, they could have won the battle of Rio San Gabriel and that could have really changed things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2020
The Indians under Raymundo el Californio returned, completely dispersed because the winds and high waves swamped many of them.
From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Cook, Sherburne Friend
His series served as the definitive work on the subject for decades, while Vallejo’s effort and the memories of his fellow Californios gathered dust in archives for over a century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2023
The historian Leonard Pitt wrote that conditions in L.A. in that decade amounted to nothing less than a “race war” against both Californios and native Americans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
A few Californios, aggrieved by that and the power grab resulting from statehood, took to banditry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
It survived the drought of 1864, which destroyed the cattle industry in Southern California, reduced the Californios to ruins and ushered in the beginnings of the modern city.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
Although some Californios staged a short-lived rebellion in September 1846, many others submitted to the U.S. takeover.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
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