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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:55, 21 May 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l3">Line 3:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 3:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==The Frontiersmen==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==The Frontiersmen==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Graham_Hill_Plaza.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">png</del>|thumb|Shopping center on Graham Hill Road]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Graham_Hill_Plaza.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jpg</ins>|thumb|Shopping center on Graham Hill Road]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. The first to record his visits to California was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith Jedediah Smith]. Smith visited San Jose and Monterey, but came no closer to Santa Cruz. A second early arrival in California who later wrote about his adventures was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ohio_Pattie James O. Pattie]. Like Smith, Pattie probably got no closer to us than Monterey (in 1829-30).  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. The first to record his visits to California was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith Jedediah Smith]. Smith visited San Jose and Monterey, but came no closer to Santa Cruz. A second early arrival in California who later wrote about his adventures was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ohio_Pattie James O. Pattie]. Like Smith, Pattie probably got no closer to us than Monterey (in 1829-30).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Trouble found the foreigners in 1840. The presence of so many armed men of dubious loyalty made now-Governor Alvarado nervous, and he ordered a large group of them arrested and brought to Monterey. Those able to prove Mexican citizenship were released, including Majors, Lodge and Buckle. The rest, 50-100 mostly American and British men, were accused of plotting to overthrow the government (ironic, coming from Alvarado). The prisoners were put aboard ships, in chains, and sent to Mexico for trial. This action caused an international diplomatic incident that became known as ‘The Graham Affair’. Most of the men were acquitted in 1841 and returned to Monterey. Some left California for good, but Graham and others returned to the area, finding a new home (with the help of Majors) and establishing a new distillery at Rancho Zayante.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Trouble found the foreigners in 1840. The presence of so many armed men of dubious loyalty made now-Governor Alvarado nervous, and he ordered a large group of them arrested and brought to Monterey. Those able to prove Mexican citizenship were released, including Majors, Lodge and Buckle. The rest, 50-100 mostly American and British men, were accused of plotting to overthrow the government (ironic, coming from Alvarado). The prisoners were put aboard ships, in chains, and sent to Mexico for trial. This action caused an international diplomatic incident that became known as ‘The Graham Affair’. Most of the men were acquitted in 1841 and returned to Monterey. Some left California for good, but Graham and others returned to the area, finding a new home (with the help of Majors) and establishing a new distillery at Rancho Zayante.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Majors_USGS.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">png</del>|thumb|left|USGS map showing Majors naming]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Majors_USGS.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jpg</ins>|thumb|left|USGS map showing Majors naming]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next few years, things started looking up for the former frontiersmen. The Majors grist mill at Rancho San Agustin sold flour as far away as Santa Clara and Monterey. He later built a water-powered mill upstream from the site of the old Mission mill, on Santa Cruz Creek (near the upper end of today&#039;s Laurel Street). The creek soon became known as Majors Creek, but today is called Laurel Creek (it’s the creek that feeds Neary Lagoon). Majors and/or his descendants also acquired an interest in Rancho Refugio, where today’s Majors Creek flows through Wilder Ranch State Park and reaches the Pacific where Scaroni Road loops off from Highway 1, at what used to be Red-White-and-Blue Beach (the infamous private nude beach and campground). The surrounding community used to be a train stop known as Majors.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next few years, things started looking up for the former frontiersmen. The Majors grist mill at Rancho San Agustin sold flour as far away as Santa Clara and Monterey. He later built a water-powered mill upstream from the site of the old Mission mill, on Santa Cruz Creek (near the upper end of today&#039;s Laurel Street). The creek soon became known as Majors Creek, but today is called Laurel Creek (it’s the creek that feeds Neary Lagoon). Majors and/or his descendants also acquired an interest in Rancho Refugio, where today’s Majors Creek flows through Wilder Ranch State Park and reaches the Pacific where Scaroni Road loops off from Highway 1, at what used to be Red-White-and-Blue Beach (the infamous private nude beach and campground). The surrounding community used to be a train stop known as Majors.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:28, 6 November 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. The first to record his visits to California was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith Jedediah Smith]. Smith visited San Jose and Monterey, but came no closer to Santa Cruz. A second early arrival in California who later wrote about his adventures was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ohio_Pattie James O. Pattie]. Like Smith, Pattie probably got no closer to us than Monterey (in 1829-30).  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. The first to record his visits to California was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith Jedediah Smith]. Smith visited San Jose and Monterey, but came no closer to Santa Cruz. A second early arrival in California who later wrote about his adventures was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ohio_Pattie James O. Pattie]. Like Smith, Pattie probably got no closer to us than Monterey (in 1829-30).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the mid-1830s, a number of these enterprising frontiersmen had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area, including [[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], [[Dye, Job F.|Job Dye]], [[Sinclair, Fuller Prewitt|Prewitt Sinclair]], [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph L. Majors]], Henry Naile, and possibly others. Graham opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. In 1936 an ambitious young ''Californio'' named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s ''Rifleros Americanos'' helped Alvarado capture Monterey and declare himself governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long. Dye later recounted his adventures in a ''Santa Cruz Sentinel'' interview. Another member of the group was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nidever George Nidever], who doesn't seem to have come to the Santa Cruz area, but published a memoir.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the mid-1830s, a number of these enterprising frontiersmen had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area, including [[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], [[Dye, Job F.|Job Dye]], [[Sinclair, Fuller Prewitt|Prewitt Sinclair]], [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph L. Majors<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]], [[Ware, William|William Ware</ins>]], Henry Naile, and possibly others. Graham opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. In 1936 an ambitious young ''Californio'' named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s ''Rifleros Americanos'' helped Alvarado capture Monterey and declare himself governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long. Dye later recounted his adventures in a ''Santa Cruz Sentinel'' interview. Another member of the group was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nidever George Nidever], who doesn't seem to have come to the Santa Cruz area, but published a memoir.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in the Santa Cruz area was Majors. He became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of &#039;&#039;El Ruso&#039;&#039; Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in the Santa Cruz area was Majors. He became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of &#039;&#039;El Ruso&#039;&#039; Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:23, 20 October 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l25">Line 25:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 25:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Stuart Thornton, [https://www.goodtimes.sc/graham-hell-a-lying-bigamists-comeuppance/ Graham Hell], Good Times online, accessed June 8, 2023.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Stuart Thornton, [https://www.goodtimes.sc/graham-hell-a-lying-bigamists-comeuppance/ Graham Hell], Good Times online, accessed June 8, 2023.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Next: [[History Pages: 8 - <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bear Flag Revolt</del>]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Next: [[History Pages: 8 - <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Wagon Trains</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:History pages]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:History pages]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:26, 19 October 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6">Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. The first to record his visits to California was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith Jedediah Smith]. Smith visited San Jose and Monterey, but came no closer to Santa Cruz. A second early arrival in California who later wrote about his adventures was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ohio_Pattie James O. Pattie]. Like Smith, Pattie probably got no closer to us than Monterey (in 1829-30).  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. The first to record his visits to California was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith Jedediah Smith]. Smith visited San Jose and Monterey, but came no closer to Santa Cruz. A second early arrival in California who later wrote about his adventures was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ohio_Pattie James O. Pattie]. Like Smith, Pattie probably got no closer to us than Monterey (in 1829-30).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the mid-1830s, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quite </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">few </del>of these enterprising frontiersmen had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. One of them</del>, [[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. In 1936 an ambitious young ''Californio'' named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s ''Rifleros Americanos'' helped Alvarado capture Monterey and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">become </del>governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the mid-1830s, a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">number </ins>of these enterprising frontiersmen had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including </ins>[[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Dye, Job F.|Job Dye]], [[Sinclair, Fuller Prewitt|Prewitt Sinclair]], [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph L. Majors]], Henry Naile, and possibly others. Graham </ins>opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. In 1936 an ambitious young ''Californio'' named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s ''Rifleros Americanos'' helped Alvarado capture Monterey and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">declare himself </ins>governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Dye later recounted his adventures in a ''Santa Cruz Sentinel'' interview. Another member of the group was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nidever George Nidever], who doesn't seem to have come to the Santa Cruz area, but published a memoir</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in Santa Cruz was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>Majors<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, Joseph L</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Joseph L. Majors]]. Majors </del>became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of ''El Ruso'' Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>Santa Cruz <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">area </ins>was Majors. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He </ins>became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of ''El Ruso'' Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Trouble found the foreigners in 1840. The presence of so many armed men of dubious loyalty made now-Governor Alvarado nervous, and he ordered a large group of them arrested and brought to Monterey. Those able to prove Mexican citizenship were released, including Majors, Lodge and Buckle. The rest, 50-100 mostly American and British men, were accused of plotting to overthrow the government (ironic, coming from Alvarado). The prisoners were put aboard ships, in chains, and sent to Mexico for trial. This action caused an international diplomatic incident that became known as ‘The Graham Affair’. Most of the men were acquitted in 1841 and returned to Monterey. Some left California for good, but Graham and others returned to the area, finding a new home (with the help of Majors) and establishing a new distillery at Rancho Zayante<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. This group included one [[Dye, Job F.|Job F. Dye]], who many years later gave an account of his adventurous life</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Trouble found the foreigners in 1840. The presence of so many armed men of dubious loyalty made now-Governor Alvarado nervous, and he ordered a large group of them arrested and brought to Monterey. Those able to prove Mexican citizenship were released, including Majors, Lodge and Buckle. The rest, 50-100 mostly American and British men, were accused of plotting to overthrow the government (ironic, coming from Alvarado). The prisoners were put aboard ships, in chains, and sent to Mexico for trial. This action caused an international diplomatic incident that became known as ‘The Graham Affair’. Most of the men were acquitted in 1841 and returned to Monterey. Some left California for good, but Graham and others returned to the area, finding a new home (with the help of Majors) and establishing a new distillery at Rancho Zayante.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Majors_USGS.png|thumb|left|USGS map showing Majors naming]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Majors_USGS.png|thumb|left|USGS map showing Majors naming]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p><span class="autocomment">The Frontiersmen</span></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:27, 9 June 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Graham_Hill_Plaza.png|thumb|Shopping center on Graham Hill Road]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Graham_Hill_Plaza.png|thumb|Shopping center on Graham Hill Road]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. The first to record his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">travels </del>was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith Jedediah Smith]. Smith visited San Jose and Monterey, but came no closer to Santa Cruz. A second early arrival in California who later wrote about his adventures was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ohio_Pattie James O. Pattie]. Like Smith, Pattie probably got no closer to us than Monterey (in 1829-30).  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. The first to record his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">visits to California </ins>was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith Jedediah Smith]. Smith visited San Jose and Monterey, but came no closer to Santa Cruz. A second early arrival in California who later wrote about his adventures was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ohio_Pattie James O. Pattie]. Like Smith, Pattie probably got no closer to us than Monterey (in 1829-30).  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the mid-1830s, quite a few of these enterprising frontiersmen had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area. One of them, [[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. In 1936 an ambitious young &#039;&#039;Californio&#039;&#039; named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s &#039;&#039;Rifleros Americanos&#039;&#039; helped Alvarado capture Monterey and become governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the mid-1830s, quite a few of these enterprising frontiersmen had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area. One of them, [[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. In 1936 an ambitious young &#039;&#039;Californio&#039;&#039; named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s &#039;&#039;Rifleros Americanos&#039;&#039; helped Alvarado capture Monterey and become governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long.  </div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:25, 9 June 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Graham_Hill_Plaza.png|thumb|Shopping center on Graham Hill Road]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Graham_Hill_Plaza.png|thumb|Shopping center on Graham Hill Road]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. By the mid-1830s, quite a few of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them </del>had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area. One of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these enterprising frontiersmen</del>, [[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">soon </del>opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">An </del>ambitious young ''Californio'' named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s ''Rifleros Americanos'' helped Alvarado capture Monterey and become governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The first to record his travels was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedediah_Smith Jedediah Smith]. Smith visited San Jose and Monterey, but came no closer to Santa Cruz. A second early arrival in California who later wrote about his adventures was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ohio_Pattie James O. Pattie]. Like Smith, Pattie probably got no closer to us than Monterey (in 1829-30). </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the mid-1830s, quite a few of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these enterprising frontiersmen </ins>had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area. One of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them</ins>, [[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1936 an </ins>ambitious young ''Californio'' named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s ''Rifleros Americanos'' helped Alvarado capture Monterey and become governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in Santa Cruz was [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph L. Majors]]. Majors became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of &#039;&#039;El Ruso&#039;&#039; Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in Santa Cruz was [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph L. Majors]]. Majors became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of &#039;&#039;El Ruso&#039;&#039; Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l21">Line 21:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 23:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Leonard, Zenas. &#039;&#039;Leonard&#039;s narrative: adventures of Zenas Leonard, fur trader and trapper&#039;&#039; (1839). [Free e-book at Google Books - includes a first-person account of the Walker Party’s journey to California]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* Leonard, Zenas. &#039;&#039;Leonard&#039;s narrative: adventures of Zenas Leonard, fur trader and trapper&#039;&#039; (1839). [Free e-book at Google Books - includes a first-person account of the Walker Party’s journey to California]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[:Category:Pokriots, Marion Dale|Pokriots, Marion Dale]]. &#039;&#039;The Joseph Majors Story&#039;&#039; (available at SCPL)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[:Category:Pokriots, Marion Dale|Pokriots, Marion Dale]]. &#039;&#039;The Joseph Majors Story&#039;&#039; (available at SCPL)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Stuart Thornton, [https://www.goodtimes.sc/graham-hell-a-lying-bigamists-comeuppance/ Graham Hell], Good Times online, accessed June 8, 2023.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Next: [[History Pages: 8 - Bear Flag Revolt]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Next: [[History Pages: 8 - Bear Flag Revolt]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:History pages]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:History pages]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:00, 27 November 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l22">Line 22:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[:Category:Pokriots, Marion Dale|Pokriots, Marion Dale]]. &#039;&#039;The Joseph Majors Story&#039;&#039; (available at SCPL)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[:Category:Pokriots, Marion Dale|Pokriots, Marion Dale]]. &#039;&#039;The Joseph Majors Story&#039;&#039; (available at SCPL)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Next: [[History Pages: 8 - <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </del>Bear Flag]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Next: [[History Pages: 8 - Bear Flag <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Revolt</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:History pages]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:History pages]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:58, 27 November 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l4">Line 4:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 4:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Graham_Hill_Plaza.png|thumb|Shopping center on Graham Hill Road]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Graham_Hill_Plaza.png|thumb|Shopping center on Graham Hill Road]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. By the mid-1830s, quite a few of them had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area. One of these enterprising frontiersmen, [[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], soon opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. An ambitious young ''Californio'' named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s ''Rifleros Americanos'' helped Alvarado capture Monterey and become governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Sometime soon after the Alvarado coup, Graham and/or some of his friends moved north, establishing another distillery at Rancho Zayante. This group included one [[Dye, Job F.|Job F. Dye]], who many years later gave an account of his adventurous life</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 added a huge, largely unexplored territory west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Immediately, groups of explorers, traders, hunters, fur trappers, Indian fighters and other colorful characters set out for the western frontier. By the mid-1830s, quite a few of them had accumulated in the Monterey Bay area. One of these enterprising frontiersmen, [[Graham, Isaac|Isaac Graham]], soon opened a distillery at Natividad (now an area of strawberry farms just north-east of Salinas) so they’d have a place to socialize. An ambitious young ''Californio'' named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado Juan Bautista Alvarado] persuaded Graham to organize his fellow frontiersmen into a company of riflemen to support Alvarado’s takeover of the California government. ‘Captain’ Graham’s ''Rifleros Americanos'' helped Alvarado capture Monterey and become governor, but he and the Americans didn’t remain allies for long.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in Santa Cruz was [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph L. Majors]]. Majors became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of &#039;&#039;El Ruso&#039;&#039; Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in Santa Cruz was [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph L. Majors]]. Majors became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of &#039;&#039;El Ruso&#039;&#039; Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">More trouble </del>found the foreigners in 1840. The presence of so many armed men of dubious loyalty made now-Governor Alvarado nervous, and he ordered a large group of them arrested and brought to Monterey. Those able to prove Mexican citizenship were released, including Majors, Lodge and Buckle. The rest, 50-100 mostly American and British men, were accused of plotting to overthrow the government (ironic, coming from Alvarado). The prisoners were put aboard ships, in chains, and sent to Mexico for trial. This action caused an international diplomatic incident that became known as ‘The Graham Affair’. Most of the men were acquitted in 1841 and returned to Monterey. Some left California for good, but Graham and others returned to the area, finding a new home (with the help of Majors) at Rancho Zayante.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Trouble </ins>found the foreigners in 1840. The presence of so many armed men of dubious loyalty made now-Governor Alvarado nervous, and he ordered a large group of them arrested and brought to Monterey. Those able to prove Mexican citizenship were released, including Majors, Lodge and Buckle. The rest, 50-100 mostly American and British men, were accused of plotting to overthrow the government (ironic, coming from Alvarado). The prisoners were put aboard ships, in chains, and sent to Mexico for trial. This action caused an international diplomatic incident that became known as ‘The Graham Affair’. Most of the men were acquitted in 1841 and returned to Monterey. Some left California for good, but Graham and others returned to the area, finding a new home (with the help of Majors) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and establishing a new distillery </ins>at Rancho Zayante<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. This group included one [[Dye, Job F.|Job F. Dye]], who many years later gave an account of his adventurous life</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Majors_USGS.png|thumb|left|USGS map showing Majors naming]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Majors_USGS.png|thumb|left|USGS map showing Majors naming]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next few years, things started looking up for the former frontiersmen. The Majors grist mill at Rancho San Agustin sold flour as far away as Santa Clara and Monterey. He later built a water-powered mill upstream from the site of the old Mission mill, on Santa Cruz Creek (near the upper end of today&#039;s Laurel Street). The creek soon became known as Majors Creek, but today is called Laurel Creek (it’s the creek that feeds Neary Lagoon). Majors and/or his descendants also acquired an interest in Rancho Refugio, where today’s Majors Creek flows through Wilder Ranch State Park and reaches the Pacific where Scaroni Road loops off from Highway 1, at what used to be Red-White-and-Blue Beach (the infamous private nude beach and campground). The surrounding community used to be a train stop known as Majors.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next few years, things started looking up for the former frontiersmen. The Majors grist mill at Rancho San Agustin sold flour as far away as Santa Clara and Monterey. He later built a water-powered mill upstream from the site of the old Mission mill, on Santa Cruz Creek (near the upper end of today&#039;s Laurel Street). The creek soon became known as Majors Creek, but today is called Laurel Creek (it’s the creek that feeds Neary Lagoon). Majors and/or his descendants also acquired an interest in Rancho Refugio, where today’s Majors Creek flows through Wilder Ranch State Park and reaches the Pacific where Scaroni Road loops off from Highway 1, at what used to be Red-White-and-Blue Beach (the infamous private nude beach and campground). The surrounding community used to be a train stop known as Majors.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Isaac Graham, meanwhile, built a water-powered sawmill on Zayante Creek (today’s Mount Hermon). To get his lumber to market, he built a wagon road to Santa Cruz, parts of which became today’s Graham Hill Road. Graham’s closest associate, Henry Naile, was later killed in a gunfight <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[</del>in front of the Eagle Hotel on the Mission Plaza<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</del>. Dye left the area for a number of years before returning to Corralitos. Some of the remaining frontiersmen returned briefly to prominence in the next major event of Santa Cruz history: the Bear Flag Revolt.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Isaac Graham, meanwhile, built a water-powered sawmill on Zayante Creek (today’s Mount Hermon). To get his lumber to market, he built a wagon road to Santa Cruz, parts of which became today’s Graham Hill Road. Graham’s closest associate, Henry Naile <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(aka Neale or Nyall)</ins>, was later killed in a gunfight in front of the Eagle Hotel on the Mission Plaza. Dye left the area for a number of years before returning to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">live out his life in </ins>Corralitos. Some of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other </ins>remaining frontiersmen returned briefly to prominence in the next major event of Santa Cruz history: the Bear Flag Revolt.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Further Reading===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Further Reading===</div></td></tr> </table>

Carey https://scchistory.com/index.php?title=History_Pages:_7_-_The_Frontiersmen&diff=790&oldid=prev 2022-11-26T20:54:09Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:54, 26 November 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l8">Line 8:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 8:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in Santa Cruz was [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph L. Majors]]. Majors became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of &#039;&#039;El Ruso&#039;&#039; Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first Graham associate to make his mark in Santa Cruz was [[Majors, Joseph L.|Joseph L. Majors]]. Majors became a Mexican citizen and, in 1839, married another of the [[Castro family|Castro]] sisters, the poetically named Maria de los Angeles. That local connection benefited Majors later on, as he became a brother-in-law of &#039;&#039;El Ruso&#039;&#039; Bolcoff, Michael Lodge and William Buckle. Like them, Majors stayed to become a prominent citizen of Santa Cruz County.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More trouble found the foreigners in 1840. The presence of so many armed men of dubious loyalty made now-Governor Alvarado nervous, and he ordered a large group of them arrested and brought to Monterey. Those able to prove Mexican citizenship were released, including Majors, Lodge and Buckle. The rest, 50-100 mostly American and British men, were accused of plotting to overthrow the government (ironic, coming from Alvarado). The prisoners were put aboard ships, in chains, and sent to Mexico for trial. This action caused an international diplomatic incident that became known as ‘The Graham Affair’. Most of the men were acquitted in 1841 and returned to Monterey. Some left California for good, but Graham and others returned to Rancho Zayante.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>More trouble found the foreigners in 1840. The presence of so many armed men of dubious loyalty made now-Governor Alvarado nervous, and he ordered a large group of them arrested and brought to Monterey. Those able to prove Mexican citizenship were released, including Majors, Lodge and Buckle. The rest, 50-100 mostly American and British men, were accused of plotting to overthrow the government (ironic, coming from Alvarado). The prisoners were put aboard ships, in chains, and sent to Mexico for trial. This action caused an international diplomatic incident that became known as ‘The Graham Affair’. Most of the men were acquitted in 1841 and returned to Monterey. Some left California for good, but Graham and others returned to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the area, finding a new home (with the help of Majors) at </ins>Rancho Zayante.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Majors_USGS.png|thumb|left|USGS map showing Majors naming]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Majors_USGS.png|thumb|left|USGS map showing Majors naming]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next few years, things started looking up for the former frontiersmen. Majors <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and his wife moved to </del>Rancho San Agustin<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, where he built a grist mill that </del>sold flour as far away as Santa Clara and Monterey. He later built a water-powered mill <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at or near </del>the site of the old Mission mill, on Santa Cruz Creek (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">up </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Laurel Street hill, near </del>today's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Babbling Brook Inn</del>). The creek soon became known as Majors Creek, but today is called Laurel Creek (it’s the creek that feeds Neary Lagoon). Majors and/or his descendants also acquired an interest in Rancho Refugio, where today’s Majors Creek <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">forms part of the northern boundary of </del>Wilder Ranch State Park and reaches the Pacific where Scaroni Road loops off from Highway 1, at what used to be Red-White-and-Blue Beach (the infamous private nude beach and campground). The surrounding community used to be a train stop known as Majors.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next few years, things started looking up for the former frontiersmen. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>Majors <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">grist mill at </ins>Rancho San Agustin sold flour as far away as Santa Clara and Monterey. He later built a water-powered mill <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">upstream from </ins>the site of the old Mission mill, on Santa Cruz Creek (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">near </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">upper end of </ins>today's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Laurel Street</ins>). The creek soon became known as Majors Creek, but today is called Laurel Creek (it’s the creek that feeds Neary Lagoon). Majors and/or his descendants also acquired an interest in Rancho Refugio, where today’s Majors Creek <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">flows through </ins>Wilder Ranch State Park and reaches the Pacific where Scaroni Road loops off from Highway 1, at what used to be Red-White-and-Blue Beach (the infamous private nude beach and campground). The surrounding community used to be a train stop known as Majors.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Isaac Graham, meanwhile, built a water-powered sawmill on Zayante Creek (today’s Mount Hermon). To get his lumber to market, he built a wagon road to Santa Cruz, parts of which became today’s Graham Hill Road. Graham’s closest associate, Henry Naile, was later killed in a gunfight [in front of the Eagle Hotel on the Mission Plaza]. Dye left the area for a number of years before returning to Corralitos. Some of the remaining frontiersmen returned briefly to prominence in the next major event of Santa Cruz history: the Bear Flag Revolt.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Isaac Graham, meanwhile, built a water-powered sawmill on Zayante Creek (today’s Mount Hermon). To get his lumber to market, he built a wagon road to Santa Cruz, parts of which became today’s Graham Hill Road. Graham’s closest associate, Henry Naile, was later killed in a gunfight [in front of the Eagle Hotel on the Mission Plaza]. Dye left the area for a number of years before returning to Corralitos. Some of the remaining frontiersmen returned briefly to prominence in the next major event of Santa Cruz history: the Bear Flag Revolt.</div></td></tr> </table>

Carey https://scchistory.com/index.php?title=History_Pages:_7_-_The_Frontiersmen&diff=789&oldid=prev 2022-11-26T20:41:19Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:41, 26 November 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l13">Line 13:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 13:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next few years, things started looking up for the former frontiersmen. Majors and his wife moved to Rancho San Agustin, where he built a grist mill that sold flour as far away as Santa Clara and Monterey. He later built a water-powered mill at or near the site of the old Mission mill, on Santa Cruz Creek (up the Laurel Street hill, near today&#039;s Babbling Brook Inn). The creek soon became known as Majors Creek, but today is called Laurel Creek (it’s the creek that feeds Neary Lagoon). Majors and/or his descendants also acquired an interest in Rancho Refugio, where today’s Majors Creek forms part of the northern boundary of Wilder Ranch State Park and reaches the Pacific where Scaroni Road loops off from Highway 1, at what used to be Red-White-and-Blue Beach (the infamous private nude beach and campground). The surrounding community used to be a train stop known as Majors.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Over the next few years, things started looking up for the former frontiersmen. Majors and his wife moved to Rancho San Agustin, where he built a grist mill that sold flour as far away as Santa Clara and Monterey. He later built a water-powered mill at or near the site of the old Mission mill, on Santa Cruz Creek (up the Laurel Street hill, near today&#039;s Babbling Brook Inn). The creek soon became known as Majors Creek, but today is called Laurel Creek (it’s the creek that feeds Neary Lagoon). Majors and/or his descendants also acquired an interest in Rancho Refugio, where today’s Majors Creek forms part of the northern boundary of Wilder Ranch State Park and reaches the Pacific where Scaroni Road loops off from Highway 1, at what used to be Red-White-and-Blue Beach (the infamous private nude beach and campground). The surrounding community used to be a train stop known as Majors.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Isaac Graham, meanwhile, built a water-powered sawmill on Zayante Creek (today’s Mount Hermon). To get his lumber to market, he built a wagon road to Santa Cruz, parts of which became today’s Graham Hill Road. Graham’s closest <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">asscociate</del>, Henry Naile, was later killed in a gunfight [in front of the Eagle Hotel on the Mission Plaza]. Dye <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">moved on </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tehama County</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Many </del>of the remaining frontiersmen returned briefly to prominence in the next major event of Santa Cruz history: the Bear Flag Revolt.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Isaac Graham, meanwhile, built a water-powered sawmill on Zayante Creek (today’s Mount Hermon). To get his lumber to market, he built a wagon road to Santa Cruz, parts of which became today’s Graham Hill Road. Graham’s closest <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">associate</ins>, Henry Naile, was later killed in a gunfight [in front of the Eagle Hotel on the Mission Plaza]. Dye <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">left the area for a number of years before returning </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Corralitos</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some </ins>of the remaining frontiersmen returned briefly to prominence in the next major event of Santa Cruz history: the Bear Flag Revolt.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Further Reading===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>===Further Reading===</div></td></tr> </table>

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