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The California State Flag was raised at Sonoma on June 14, 1846 by American settlers rebelling against Mexican rule. California, originally a Spanish colony, became the 31st state of the Union on September 9, 1850. This was only after the Great Compromise or the Compromise of 1850 was passed in Congress. "This Omnibus Bill admitted California to the Union as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico territories to decide the slavery question locally, abolished the slave trade ( but not slavery) in the District of Columbia, and enacted a more stringent federal fugitive slave code." The Elusive Eden: A New History of California by Richard B. Rice & William A. Bullough & Richard J. Orsi

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O. Acosta	L. Adame	F. Alacron	Alurista	J. Angulo
R. Arias	G. Atherton	M. Austin

Acosta, Oscar Zeta

The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo	Non-Fiction
The Revolt of the Cockroach People	Non-Fiction

Adame, Leonard with Luis Omar Salinas, Gary Sotos, and Ernesto Trejo

Entrance: Four Chicano Poets	Poetry	New York; Greenfield Review Press	1975

Alacro'n, Francisco

Body in Flames	Poetry

Alurista

Return	Poetry

Angulo, Jaime de

The Road to Tamazunchale	Fiction

Arias, Ron

A Jaime de Angulo Reader	Fiction

Atherton, Gertrude

The Californians	Fiction
Lost Borders	Fiction
The Splendid, Idle Forties	Fiction

Austin, Mary (1868 - 1934)

"In her twenties Mary Austin started writing in an area south of Bakersfield. This region and the desert east of the Sierra inspired some of the novels and stories which earned her a reputation as a major author of the Southwest. She later was a prominent member of the artists' colonies at Carmel and Santa Fe. She wrote both fiction and non-fiction but her best known work, 'The Land of Little Rain' was non-fiction. Where is it, that land of Mary Austin? Southwest of the Rio Grande all the lands receive little rain. People, even critics who should know better, often think it is Arizona or New Mexico. Theirs is an understandable mistake, for Mary Austin did live there during the last two decades of her life, and those two states are indeed semi-arid. Her land is California, the high desert country at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada, merging with sagebrush Nevada. It should probably have been included in the state of Nevada, for it does not resemble the characteristic California of seacoast, forested mountains, and fertile valleys." "California Classics" by Lawrence Clark Powell
The Land of Little Rain	Non-fiction	Boston: Houghton Mifflin	1903
Isidoro		Boston: Houghton Mifflin	1905
The Flock	Fiction	Boston: Houghton Mifflin	1906
Lost Borders	Fiction	New York: Harper	1909
The Ford		Boston: Houghton Mifflin	1917
Earth Horizon		New York: The Literary Guild	1932

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