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The Daily Alta California descended from the first newspaper published in the city, Samuel Brannan's California Star, which debuted on January 9, 1847.Brannan, who had earlier assisted in publishing several Mormon newspapers in New York, had brought a small press with him when he immigrated to California as part of a group of Mormon settlers in 1846 aboard The Brooklyn.
Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, [a] was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula, it had previously comprised the province of Las Californias, but was made a separate province in 1804 (named Nueva California). [1]
The Daily Alta California, of 4 June 1858 translated a portion of a long editorial on the subject including this about Joaquin Valenzuela: "Thus it is that justice is executed in this country, where they pretend there are laws, and rights and liberty. They lie! Here when they pretend to punish a crime, they commit another still greater."
The Daily Alta concluded the next day that "there are more sore heads in San Francisco today than can get well in a week." [ 22 ] Oakland and San Jose remained quiet, [ 24 ] [ 25 ] and the United States Navy dispatched the gunboats USS Pensacola and Lackawanna to San Francisco from Vallejo as a precaution in response to a request from Mayor ...
A sample was sent to the governor of Alta California, who was rumored to have had some made into earrings for his wife. Over 10 years, at least $2 million and maybe three or four times that was ...
The Daily Alta California; The Daily News (San Francisco) The Pacific Ensign; Vestkusten; Weekly Alta California (1849) [1] Wide West (newspaper) (1854-1858) [1 ...
As of 7 a.m. local time on Wednesday, Jan. 8, four named wildfires are impacting various parts of Southern California, according to data from CalFire.. The largest blaze is the Palisades Fire ...
Perhaps there are better ways to spend our time than cheering for our college sports teams ‘til we’re blue in the face, but we haven’t found them yet.