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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 6: White conquerors. (search)
Chapter 6: White conquerors. guess you'll say here's a place, whispers Colonel Brown, a settler in these parts. If this valley had a little more rain, a little more soil, and a little less sun and wind, it would be a place! You bet? Leaving the open sewers and pretty balconies of Monterey behind, we cross the amber durwood far from pleasant neighbours, and by no means likely settlers in a town. Yet Major Bucknall meant to try his luck- Come, let us build a city. He believed White men would come in, and occupy the Salinas pastures. Sherwood gave him a scrap of ground, on which he reared a log shanty. Six weeks after he began to build his h you think me a monstrous wicked fellow: Lovelace, Lothario, Don Juan all in one! Bless you, it's a fearful bore. Don't pray for a country in which there are no White women, that's my advice! Do you suppose I prefer a dirty squaw who only speaks ten words of English, to a rosy lassie out of Kent? All fiddlesticks. Our proper
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 7: Hybrids. (search)
anciscan fathers tried to check this evil by keeping White men and Red women apart. They failed; the customs o Too well we know the mischief, for this mixture of White with savage blood is giving us a vicious and unstable race. White female faces are not often seen in the southern parts of California; thirty years since they wrse at liberty to woo and wed; but in a land with no White women he could only woo a squaw. If the stranger man Carlos, and the soldiers in the citadel. No other White men had a right to dwell in Monterey. We bought ourit up. The practice of selling young Indian girls to White men is still so common, that in some adjoining counts being brought into the world. This cross between White blood and Red was called Mestizo, and the females ofsolve. The policy of his Church had been to exclude White settlers from the soil: a policy of prudence if the country fills the hut with squaws, whom the sons of White men disdain to marry. Gross and sickening superstit
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 8: brigands. (search)
sure of Vasquez. The general may live to make more treaties, and acquire fresh honours from the stranger; but the brigand's work on earth is done, and he is lying at San Jose in a patriot's cell, waiting for the sentence that will lay him in a patriot's grave. In Mexican eyes, a brigand is a finer figure than a soldier. Vasquez, moreover, is no common bandit. He began his acts of violence in the name of an invaded country, and committed theft and murder in the cause of an outraged race. He robbed White men, and stripped the government mails. Some people think his schemes as vast in scope as they were bold in plan. By daring much, he sought to win the confidence of all the half-breed drovers, miners, and stockmen. It is said, his bands were companies which might have swollen to regiments. Some persons think he might have raised an army, and become the Alvaredo of his epoch, had he not been ruined, like so many heroes, by the beauty of a woman and the jealousy of a friend.
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 9: Capitan Vasquez. (search)
e. The produce of Los Felix satisfied his father's wants; but the unhappy boy was fretting from a fever in his blood. White men came into Monterey, who took to building jetties, making roads, and opening schools. Such men were devils in his sigjealous ,of his women, was fifteen years of age! Next year, being now sixteen, he opened a saloon and killed his first White man. White men came into his den, who quaffed his liquor, won his coin, and pattered with his girls. Speaking of these White men came into his den, who quaffed his liquor, won his coin, and pattered with his girls. Speaking of these days, he says, The white men cuffed and kicked me. They took my sweethearts by the waist and kissed them to my face. I fought them in defence of what I felt to be my rights, and those of my companions, natives of the soil. I fled and hid myself. Mendocino county, in the north, three hundred miles from Monterey; but even in the north I was not left alone in peace. White men pursued me to my ranch; but I escaped unhurt and fled into the woods. Then I resolved to change my course. It was
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 10: brigand life. (search)
ia to a — shepherd's ranch, where she lay in hiding three or four months, her lover going to see her now and then by stealth. Here they began to flout and quarrel. Vasquez had a dozen favourites whom he liked to see, and when Rosalia moped at being left so long, he told her he was weary, and must send her home. Not to let her go empty, he rode over the ridge to that Firebaugh ferry, on the San Joaquin river, where the passengers are all Judges and Colonels, and having tied and robbed ten White men and one Yellow man, he brought their clothes and money to Rosalia, put her on a mule, and sent her under escort to her father's house. Believing he had now done everything that a lover should do for a woman who has ceased to please him, Vasquez put Rosalia from his mind, except so far as his lieutenant Leiva was concerned in her affairs. Wanting to see no more of Leiva's wife, he hoped his cousin would take her back, forget his fit of jealousy, and rejoin the band. But Leiva's savag
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 11: love and death. (search)
ds being dressed, the brigand has been brought to San Jose, where he is nearer to the white settlements, than at Los Angeles. At San Jose, he is overshadowed by the power of San Francisco. San Jose, one of the Free Towns, has, like Los Angeles, a lower class of mongrel breed and vicious life; one of the great sinks from which such chiefs as Soto and Vasquez draw their bands. But these bad elements in the town, though rough and noisy, quail before the steady courage of the upper class --White men of British race, who having grown rich as advocates and physicians, bankers and merchants, have built their country houses on Coyote Creek; converting a camp of troops and squaws, with their unruly progeny, into a paradise of villas, colleges, and schools. These new comers are enrolled as vigilants, and are masters of the town. While waiting trial, Vasquez is behaving like a true half-breed, lying in the faces of his friends, boasting of his noble deeds, and acting basely towards the
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 12: Catholic missions. (search)
Commonwealth are more advanced and better off than any other Red tribes and families. An Indian commissioner, who has no clerical bearings to betray his judgment, writes:-- The mission Indians, having been for the past century under the Catholic missions established on the Californian coast, are tolerably well advanced in agriculture, and compare favourably with the most highly civilised tribes of the East. He adds, in detail, that these civilised Indians support themselves by working for White settlers, or by hunting, fishing, begging, and stealing, except a few, who go to the military post for assistance in the way of food. These waifs in the agencies have some support; the other waifs and strays have none. Since they lost the friars, these converts have been perishing in their tens, their fifties, nay their hundreds; yet the State does nothing for them, and the sturdy settler, in his hurry to be safe, is brushing them from his path as roughly as he stamps out wolves and bear
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 15: Bay of San Francisco. (search)
sh names. Searsville, Crystal Springs, and School House Station, cover Santa Clara, San Mateo, and San Bruno on these western heights, while Dublin, Danville, and Lafayette cover San Lorenzo, San Antonio, and San Pablo on those eastern heights. White settlers seize the water edges in all places where a pier is wanted or a factory can be built. They clasp the Bay in railway lines, adorn the tide with sailing ships, pollute the shore with smoking chimneys, bridge the narrows with ferry boats. Where water pays, they hug the shore, defying chills and fevers for the sake of gain ; but these White settlers never linger in the swamps, like Mexicans and Half-breeds, merely because the gourds grow quickly and the fish is cheap. Driven by a stronger spirit than any nati-ve knows, they search the hills and ravines, fastening on soils which no Mexican ever dreamt of bringing under rake and plough. They search the passes through and through ; here tapping at the rock for ore, there burro
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 17: White women. (search)
Chapter 17: White women. Not even his squaw! White men have learned a good deal from the IndWhite men have learned a good deal from the Indian, but they have not learned to stake their wives, like Utes and Bannocks, on the chances of a throw. White females are still too rare and precious on this coast; some cynics say too rare and pres moral death. In California there are five White men to two White women; in Oregon there are foWhite women; in Oregon there are four White men to three White women; in Nevada there are three White men to one White woman; in WashiWhite men to three White women; in Nevada there are three White men to one White woman; in Washington there are two White men to each White woman. Under social arrangements so abnormal, a White White women; in Nevada there are three White men to one White woman; in Washington there are two White men to each White woman. Under social arrangements so abnormal, a White woman is treated everywhere on the Pacific slopes, not as a man's equal and companion, justly and White woman; in Washington there are two White men to each White woman. Under social arrangements so abnormal, a White woman is treated everywhere on the Pacific slopes, not as a man's equal and companion, justly and kindly like a human being, but as a strange and costly creature, which by virtue of its rarity is fWhite men to each White woman. Under social arrangements so abnormal, a White woman is treated everywhere on the Pacific slopes, not as a man's equal and companion, justly and kindly like a human being, but as a strange and costly creature, which by virtue of its rarity is freed from the restraints and penalties of ordinary law. A man must be sharply pressed by famine ereWhite woman. Under social arrangements so abnormal, a White woman is treated everywhere on the Pacific slopes, not as a man's equal and companion, justly and kindly like a human being, but as a strange and costly creature, which by virtue of its rarity is freed from the restraints and penalties of ordinary law. A man must be sharply pressed by famine ere he eats his bird of paradise. As with the trappers and traders of Monterey, so with the miners [1 more...]
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 18: bucks and squaws. (search)
dog. He buys her, sells her, as he likes. Nobody interferes. American law knows nothing of a Red man's lodge. If Red Dog were to beat his bride, while all these White men were about, he would be lynched. But if he kills her in the night, when no White men are near, no sheriff will pursue him for the crime. While she remains White men are near, no sheriff will pursue him for the crime. While she remains a member of her tribe, a woman has some natural defender, in her father, in her brother, in her son. When drafted into another tribe, her only hope is in the favour and compassion of her lord. In other days such sales of women into other tribes were rare, but as the tribes fall off in numbers, the women pass more frequently from w scouring the land in search of squaws. Have you not girls enough in your own camp, without coming up to Winnemucca when you want a wife? No; not enough. White men have taken nearly all our squaws. It is a fact; for them, a sad and bitter fact. Some Indian tribelets are so poor in squaws, that many of the hunters have
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