Reading Notes W5: De Burton Part A

• It talks about in the beginning how William Darrell only meant to take no land but the land that belonged to the U.S.
• He had rallied over half of California's population for the Squatter's Sovereignty.
• It shows the struggle that the people went through to join the U.S.
• It's an interesting point of view that is a lot different from what a text book would say.
• The point of view shows how some of the people really felt about the treaty as opposed as California and the other territories being gloriously acquired by the Government.
• "The government has for sale hundreds of millions of acres, but yet these men must come and take my land, as if there was no other" (Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, "The squatter and the Don", 253)