Volume 90, Number 1 - California Historical Society

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notes
courtship and conquest: alfred
sully’s intimate intrusion at
monterey, By stephen g. hyslop,
pp 4–17
This article is adapted from my book Contest
for California: From Spanish Colonization to
the American Conquest (Arthur H. Clark and
the University of Oklahoma Press, 2012),
vol. II in the series Before Gold: California
under Spain and Mexico, edited by Rose
Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz.
Caption sources: William Redmond Ryan,
Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower
California, vol. 1 (London: William Shoberl,
Publisher, 1852), 72–73; Langdon Sully, No
Tears for the General: The Life of Alfred Sully,
1821–1879 (Palo Alto, CA: American West
Publishing Company, 1974), 42, 75; http://
www.sancarloscathedral.org/history; www.
mchsmuseum.com/san carlos; Walker A.
Tompkins, Santa Barbara Past and Present
(Santa Barbara, CA: Tecolote Books, 1975);
completion date of 1820 per http://www.
sbthp.org/soldados/SBMission and other
sources; “Campaign of General Alfred
Sully Against the Hostile Sioux in 1864, as
Transcribed in 1883 from the Diary of Judge
Nicholas Hilger,” in Contributions to the
Historical Society of Montana, vol. 2 (Helena,
MT: State Publishing Company, 1896), 322.
1
Langdon Sully, No Tears for the General: The
Life of Alfred Sully, 1821–1879 (Palo Alto, CA:
American West Publishing Company, 1974),
23–24.
2
Doyce B. Nunis, Jr., “Alta California’s Trojan
Horse: Foreign Immigration,” in Contested
Eden: California before the Gold Rush,
ed. Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi
(Berkeley: University of California Press, in
association with the California Historical
Society, 1998), 299–330.
3
Jefferson to Madison, Apr. 27, 1809, in
Joseph J. Ellis, et al., Thomas Jefferson:
Genius of Liberty (New York: Viking Studio,
in association with the Library of Congress,
2000), 118, 133.
4
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz,
trans. and eds., Testimonios: Early California
through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848
(Berkeley: Heyday Books, in association
with The Bancroft Library, 2006), 265,
277–78; Louise Pubols, The Father of All: The
de la Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy
California History • volume 90 number 1 2012
in Mexican California (Berkeley and San
Marino: University of California Press and
the Huntington Library, 2009), 262–69.
5
William Heath Davis, Seventy-Five Years in
California, ed. Harold A. Small (San Francisco:
John Howell, 1967 [1889]), 37, 66–67;
Susanna Bryant Dakin, The Lives of William
Hartnell (Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 1949), 280–81.
6
Letter of June 14, 1849, Alfred Sully
Papers, Western Americana Collection, Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University (hereafter cited as Alfred
Sully Papers); Sully, No Tears for the General,
41–42; Beebe and Senkewicz, Testimonios,
193–97.
7
Letters of Aug. 19, 1849, and Dec. 29,
1849, Alfred Sully Papers.
8
Letter of May 1, 1850, Alfred Sully Papers;
Sully, No Tears for the General, 57, 85, 239–
40 n. 5.
9
Letters of May 28, 1850, and Aug, 28,
1850, Alfred Sully Papers; Sully, No Tears for
the General, 61–63, 237 n. 3.
10
Letter of June 23, 1850, Alfred Sully
Papers.
11
Letter of Apr. 30, 1851, Alfred Sully
Papers; Sully, No Tears for the General,
69–71.
12
Letter of Apr. 30, 1851, Alfred Sully
Papers.
13
Letter of June 14, 1849, Alfred Sully
Papers; Sully, No Tears for the General, 42.
14
Letter of June 1851, Alfred Sully Papers;
Sully, No Tears for the General, 72–75.
15
Alfred Robinson acknowledged that
mission Indians were subjected to severe
discipline but regarded plans to emancipate
them and secularize the missions,
undertaken by José María Echeandía and
later governors of Mexican California, as
misguided assaults on what conscientious
padres with whom he did business had
accomplished at their religious communities.
“These flourishing institutions, as they
had been, were in danger of immediate subversion
and ruin,” Robinson wrote in Life in
California before the Conquest (San Francisco:
Thomas C. Russell, 1925 [1846]), 129. For a
contrasting assessment of the mission system
by an American who traded with Californios
but did not enter into their society,
see William Dane Phelps, Alta California,
1840–1842: The Journal and Observations
of William Dane Phelps, Master of the Ship
“Alert,” ed. Briton Cooper Busch (Glendale,
Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1983), 197–98.
16
Josiah Royce, California: A Study of American
Character (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books,
2002 [1886]), 119.
17
Sully, No Tears for the General, 150–51.
18
Sully, No Tears for the General, 119–25,
243 n. 13; Vine Deloria, Jr., Singing for a
Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux (Santa
Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 2000),
59–60. For more on the history of the
Deloria family, see Philip J. Deloria, Indians
in Unexpected Places (Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, 2004), 109–35. Alfred
Sully’s connection to the Deloria family is
mentioned in biographical articles on Ella
Deloria by Raymond J. DeMallie in Barbara
Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green, eds.,
Notable American Women: The Modern Period
(Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University
Press, 1980), 183–85; and by Charles
Vollan in David J. Wishart, ed., Encyclopedia
of the Great Plains (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2007), 59–60.
19
Benjamin D. Wilson, “Benjamin David
Wilson’s Observations of Early Days in
California and New Mexico,” Annual Publications
of the Historical Society of Southern
California (1934), 74–150; Hubert Howe
Bancroft, History of California (San Francisco:
History Company, 1886), 5: 777.
“With the god of Battles i can
destroy all such Villains”: War,
religion, and the impact of islam
on spanish and mexican california,
1769–1846, By michael gonzalez,
pp 18–39
Caption sources: Edna Kimbro, Julia G.
Costello, Tevvy Ball, The California Missions:
History, Art, and Preservation (Los Angeles:
Getty Conservation Institute, 2009); Hugh
Wm. Davies, Bernhard von Breydenbach and
His Journey to the Holy Land, 1483–4: A Bibliography
(London: J. & J. Leighton, 1911); Fr.
Zephyrin Engelhardt, Santa Barbara Mission
(San Francisco: James H. Barry Company,
1923), 125, California Historical Society
979.402 MSa51e.
1 William Shakespeare, Othello, in The Yale
Shakespeare, The Complete Works, ed. Wilbur
Cross and Tucker Brooke (New York: Barnes
and Noble Books, 1993), I.i.52 and I.iii.247.