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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 6: White conquerors. (search)
rown. Come, Colonel, bet you don't beat this place in the old country, nohow? Yet Salinas is an English town. Captain Sherwood, an officer in the English army, who had served in the Crimea, came to California with a sum of money to be spent in, a bag of nails, and the thing is done. Nothing easier. But let me see. A house-why not a town? At night he spoke to Sherwood- Let us build a city on the lake. Thinking of his cattle-run, the Captain smiled. A city for whom? What wretch would roaming as they pleased, driving their herds afield, unchecked by any fence, unscared by any gun. Such fellows seemed to Sherwood 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 hut, a fellow with an eye for coming custome