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Jose de Galvez-
- * Around 1770
- * Created settlement with Serra: via missions and presidios
- * Goal: rapid establishment of Spanish authority over Spanish territory
- * royal expectations of missions:
- o Pacification of native populations with limited violence
- o Missions to Hispanicize native populations
- o Missions as the precursors to pueblos�agricultural towns
- o Native support structures for Spanish settlement
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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo-
- * Saw himself steadily marginalized in his own native land, despite his efforts to stay at the forefront of change.
- * one of eight californios to serve in California's constitutional convention, and was subsequently elected to the first state senate.
- * Around 1846
- * Led a victorious Mexican and Indian expedition against an Indian revolt at the San Jos� mission
- * critical of much of Mexican upper class society and government
- * military commander, politician, and rancher
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Lansford W. Hastings-
- * Actively tried to recruit new immigrants in the Westward expansion with John Marsh
- * Both seek to emulate Texas
- * 1845
- * California pioneer
- * Public speaker
- * Author of an emigration guide
- * �slightly misleading� informant on this western paradise
- * Hasting�s goal�become the next Sam Houston
- * Donner Party a victim of Hasting�s propaganda
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People vs. Hall-
- * 1854
- * Murder trial of George Hall�killed Ling Sing over a mining dispute
- * Conviction appealed to the CA Supreme Court
- * Ruling classifies Chinese as �Indians�
- * Implication�Chinese cannot testify against whites
- * Conviction overturned
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Lux vs. Haggin-
- * Lawsuit over water rights (riparian rights=water rights applies to land next to water vs prior appropriation= first users have rights to water)
- * 1886
- * Lux-Miller Cattle Company�s usage of Kern Valley water
- * Problem�Kern Valley Land and Water Company
- * Water diverted upstream from cattle company
- * Lux vs. Haggin decides in favor of Miller and Lux
- * Problems of Lux vs Haggin:
- o Potential to prevent usage of water to farming communities
- o Potential to create monopoles for water= soaring water prices
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