Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Overland Monthly, Vol. 26: July-December, 1895
Our government's instructions to its agent here in 1845 were: Assure these people, if they desire to unite their destinies to ours they will be received as brethren. If this was fraternal treat ment they received it was that accorded to an Esau or an Ishmael.
The devices by which unprincipled men got the better of individual property owners would make a volume in the history of the land troubles. Guadalupe Vallejo in her Ranch and Mission Life in Alta California, tells how a leading American squatter came to her father, J. J. Vallejo, and said There is a large piece of your land where the cattle run loose and your vaqueros are all gone to the mines. I will fence the field for you at my own expense if you will give me half of it. Vallejo agreed, but when the American had enclosed it he entered it as government land and kept it all.
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