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Reading Notes A Week 5

Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton 1832-1894

  • Met Henry Burton of US Army in July 1847
  • As  a condition of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hiladgo in 1848, 480 Baja Californians were shipped off to Monterey
  • 16 year old Maria and her mother
  • 1849 married Burton
  • Burton contracted malaria in the Civil War and died in 1869
  • Maria wrote "Who Would Have Thought It" in 1872 parody historical romance
  • The Squatter and the Don 1885 was the first novel by a Mexican American woman - expose of the common practice of land "squatting"
  • Squatter's Sovereignty on the wane and the squatter vote was no longer in power
  • William Darrel believed land belonged to the US and wanted to take it back
  • cattle killed or stolen, laws do not protect original owner
  • state legislators make laws to protect agriculture but not cattle
  • "land commission" established to examine land titles
  • during litigation, rightful owners paid taxes on land being cultivated while the titles were in court
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