Download or read book Bear Flag Rising written by Dale L. Walker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dale L. Walker, historian and author of Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West, takes on the conquest of California in this vivid portrait of America's manifest destiny. Bear Flag Rising traces the history of California from the Indians who inhabited the land before the first Europeans saw it through the warfare that would finally leave the province in American hands. The lives of the Californios in tranquil days before the advent of American trappers and the steady decline of the province under Mexico's neglectful rule are brought to life in this epic chronicle. Battles and skirmishes, such as the bitter fight on the San Gabriel River during the march to recapture Los Angeles, are meticulously re-created in all their vicious glory. Above all, Bear Flag Rising is rich with the personalities of the conquest--from John Charles Fremont, the ambitious, enigmatic explorer, to Commodore Robert Field Stockton, a wealthy, imperious, and ruthless naval officer, and Stephen Watts Kearny, who made a 2,000-mile overland march from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, annexing New Mexico on the way, and arrived in California to face Mexican lancers in battle. Bear Flag Rising reveals, through exacting research and masterful prose, the full story of how Mexico lost California and how this Pacific paradise went on to become "the greatest jewel in the crown of the American Empire." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Men of the California Bear Flag Revolt and Their Heritage written by Barbara R. Warner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bear Flag Republic written by Christopher Buckley and published by Greenhouse Review Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. BEAR FLAG REPUBLIC features poems from ninety poets, including Killarney Clary, Wanda Coleman, Peter Everwine, Richard Garcia, Amy Gerstler, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Jane Hirshfield, Garrett Hongo, Mark Jarman, Dorianne Laux, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Morton Marcus, Czeslaw Milosz, Luis Omar Salinas, David St. John, Joseph Stroud, Amy Uyematsu, Diane Wakoski, Charles Wright, and Al Young, among many others. This great anthology also includes twenty-two essays from poets, including Robert Bly, Maxine Chernoff, Mark Jarman, Diane Wakoski, Charles Harper Webb, and more. "Speaking is natural; writing is not. Prose and poetry will forever combine and recombine to express what utterly needs to be told"--Al Young. "A prose poem has the shape of water; it spreads out. Some poems are that expansive, that open and fluid, and their shape needs to reflect their nature..."--Marsha de la O.

Download or read book The Bear Flag written by Jacob Neibert Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rosie the Bear Flag written by Harry Knill and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bear Book written by Les Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bear Book brings together an impressive range of bear--usually big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans and flannel shirts--viewpoints to explore this unique social and cultural phenomenon that stretches from America to western Europe to Australia! On the personal level, you learn what beardom means to different people in their daily lives, and on a broader level, its cultural implications for not only the gay community, but also society as a whole. As this book moves across the wide spectrum of bear identities, you learn about the defining forces of identity, the significance of differences among masculinities, and the shapings of the bear movement from different viewpoints. The Bear Book is the first compilation of sociological and cultural analytical investigations of the contemporary gay bear phenomenon. To this end, Editor Les Wright brings together both objective and subjective viewpoints to create a forum where bears can speak for themselves. Through their voices, you’ll learn about: bears and sexual identity gay male iconography socializing on the Internet sexual politics (gender, class, “looks-ism,” and body image) gay mass media, the single most powerful force in the current construction of ”bears” bears, power, and glamor bear-as-image vs. bear-as-attitude Gays, lesbians, lesbigay scholars, bears, and social scientists are sure to find The Bear Book thought-provoking and insightful as it broaches questions such as: Are bears caught up in a utopian-romantic impulse to reinvent themselves? What was radical lesbianism’s impact on the bear movement? To what extent are bears only another group of exploited consumers in a fragmented market system? And, is it possible to establish social liberation through enslavement to your sexual passions? For both your pleasure and your education, The Bear Book examines nearly every corner of beardom, including bear history, identity, social spaces, iconography, and its constituency abroad.

Download or read book The Bear Flag Party and Sonoma written by Barbara R. Warner and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Story of the Bear Flag written by Thomas Jefferson Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Birth of the Bear Flag written by Peter Thomas Conmy and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The United States and the Bear Flag Revolt written by John A. Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sweet Thursday written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of California alcoholics, whores, and idlers form bonds of affection among themselves and with a biologist in post-World War II Monterey

Download or read book Rosie and the Bear Flag written by Harry Knill and published by . This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bear Flag Revolution in California written by Henry Lewis Ford and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Origin of the Bear Flag written by Henry Fowler Mallett and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounting of the origins of the California bear flag, painted by Peter George Storm. This copy includes a transcript (p. 16) of William B. Ide's proclamation, made June 18th, 1846 in Sonoma to the citizens of California regarding the recent revolt. Also included are transcripts from the Napa Daily Register, December 14-17, 1877 (p. 17-19), on the life and death of Peter Storm.

Download or read book More Light on the Bear Flag of California written by A. H. Greenly and published by . This book was released on 1953* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bear Flag written by Cecelia Holland and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widowed on the arduous trek west, proud Cat Reilly is forced to take whatever work she can find amid the gold-veined hills of Sutter's Fort. Mixing company with the likes of Lt. John Charles Fremont and his legendary scout Kit Carson, she discovers passion with an attractive Russian nobleman. Then as war explodes between the United States and Mexico, the Bear Flag Revolt plunges Cat into the epic battle for California's independence.