[Gutenberg 35538] • The Squatter and the Don / A Novel Descriptive of Contemporary Occurrences in California

[Gutenberg 35538] • The Squatter and the Don / A Novel Descriptive of Contemporary Occurrences in California

The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted the full rights of citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, was, by 1860, a subordinated and marginalized national minority.