Bear Flag Rising: The Conquest of California, 1846

A historian and author reveals the events behind 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 brough...