* Salomon Pico ( 1821 – 1860 ), Mexican soldier, Californio Bandit

Castro Street was named for José Castro ( 1808 – 1860 ), a Californio leader of Mexican opposition to U. S. rule in California in the 19th century, and alcalde of Alta California from 1835 to 1836.

William Mulholland, engineer of the mammoth project, lived nearby and maintained one of many large rancho tracts remaining from the Spanish, Mexican, and Californio land grant days.

There is no indication that there was contact with the Concow tribe during the 1697 – 1821 Spanish colonization, the 1821 – 1846 Mexican governance, or the spread of the Californio slave ranchos.

Many persons are also of Central American and other Latino descent, perhaps those of Californio or Spanish-American descent whose ancestors were former Mexican citizens until the US annexed California in 1848.

Ontario has over two centuries of Hispanic residents, starting from the Californio period of Spanish colonial and Mexican rule in the 1840s.

Prior to the Mexican-American War the Californio forces had already driven the Mexican appointed Governor Manuel Micheltorena and most of his soldiers from Alta California.

This addition was objected to by native Californio Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, former head of the Mexican military in California, but a friend of the United States.

Built on the site of a Mexican rancho, the mill represented the shift of land ownership from the Californio Dons to the new settlers arriving after the Mexican-American War.

It featured Ramona, an orphan girl who was half Indian and half Scots, raised in Spanish Californio society, and her Indian husband Alessandro, and their struggles for land of their own.

José Antonio Carrillo, a Californio rancher, led 50 Spanish Californio lancers in that defeat of Mervine and the American forces.

Californio ( historic and regional Spanish for " Californian ") is a term used to identify a Spanish-speaking, mostly Roman Catholic people, or of Latin American descent, regardless of race, born in California from the first Spanish colonies established by the Portolá expedition in 1769 to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, in which Mexico ceded California to the United States.

Most with unmixed Spanish ancestry were Franciscan priests and a few officers probably less than 5 % of the Californio population.

Her paternal side comes from a Spanish Californio family from Spain, while her maternal grandparents were born in Ireland.

The creek was named after a member of the prominent Basque – Spanish Berreyesa family: Nicolas Berreyesa, a Californio settler granted the Rancho Milpitas in 1834.

The name comes from a member of the prominent Basque – Spanish Berreyesa family: Nicolas Berreyesa, a Californio settler who was granted Rancho Milpitas in 1834.

It is the story of how Spanish Alta California, Pueblo de Los Angeles, and the Californio vaquero heritage at the beginning of the 19th century shaped fifteen year old Diego de la Vega and his mute brother Bernardo to create their eventual shared identity as el Zorro, advocate and protector of the people.

* 1853 – Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as " Robin Hood of El Dorado ", is killed.

The history of the area during the Californio period and after U. S. annexation is detailed in the article on Rancho Los Alamitos.

Ranching began to take hold among Californio settlers, who lost their regional influence when California became a US state in 1850.

Even those statutes intended to protect the owners of property at the time of the extension of the United States ' borders, such as the 1851 California Land Act, had the effect of dispossessing Californio owners ruined by the cost of maintaining litigation over land titles for years.

The Californio Governor, Pio Pico, with about 100 poorly armed and poorly equipped soldiers, was nominally in charge in Alta California and had consolidated his forces in Pueblo de Los Angeles — the largest city then in California with about 3, 500 residents.

The Californio soldiers had already left the town's defenses and gone to Los Angeles.

Píco was a third-generation Californio.

While in Los Angeles, she met Don Antonio Coronel, former mayor of the city and a well-known authority on early Californio life in the area.

Readers accepted the Californio aristocracy as portrayed and the Ramona myth was born.

On trip across the Mojave Desert to San Diego Kearny encountered marine Major Archibald H. Gillespie and about 30 men with news of a on-going Californio revolt in Los Angeles.

On a wet December 6, 1846 day Kearny's forces encountered Andrés Pico ( Californio Governor Pio Pico's brother ) and a force of about 150 Californio Lancers.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

However, Corky Gonzales and Reies Tijerina stirred up old tensions about New Mexican land claims with roots going back to before the Mexican-American War.

* In the Spirit of Resistance: African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School, group show, 1996, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

Category: New Mexican cuisine

California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming were all included in the Mexican Cession.

Pollock was introduced to the use of liquid paint in 1936 at an experimental workshop operated in New York City by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Just as the creation of New Mexico and Utah territories had not ruled on the validity of Mexican law on the acquired territory, the Nebraska bill was neither " affirming or repealing ... the Missouri act.

" Nearly all railroads were using Krupp rails, the New York Central, Illinois Central, Delaware and Hudson, Maine Central, Lake Shore and Michigin Southern, Bangor and Aarostook, Great Northern, Boston and Albany, Florida and East Coast, Texas and Pacific, Southern pacific, and Mexican National.

The following day, August 18, Stephen W. Kearny rode into Santa Fe, New Mexico with his Army of the West and declared the New Mexican territory conquered.

Forces included nearly 1000 infantry ( US and New Mexican volunteers ), hundreds of horses and mules, a supply train, 55 Pueblo scouts, and four artillery guns.

After reaching an accord, a scuffle broke out when a New Mexican thought he saw his stolen horse and tried to claim it from the Navajo.

Washington sided with the New Mexican.

Since the Navajo owner took his horse and fled the scene, Washington told the New Mexican to pick out any Navajo horse he wanted.

One of the dying was Chief Narbona, who was scalped as he lay dying by a New Mexican souvenir hunter.

* 1916 – Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.

The Spanish conquistadors brought cows, goats, and sheep to the New World, permanently changing Mexican dietary habits.

The four states bordering Mexico ( Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California ), and the other southwest states such as Colorado, Nevada and Utah have large expatriate Mexican populations, which in effect has produced a wide variety of authentic Mexican restaurants.

Later in the 1950s Perez Prado acquired the Mexican Citizenship, moved to New York for some years, and then returned to Mexico City, where he died on September 14, 1989, aged 72.

The New Mexican landscape ranges from wide, rose-colored deserts to broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks.

Other fauna present in New Mexico include black bears, cougars, coyotes, porcupines, skunks, Mexican gray wolves, deer, elk, plains bison, collared peccary, bighorn sheep, squirrels, chipmunks, pronghorn, western diamondback, kangaroo rat, jackrabbit and a multitude of other birds, reptiles, and rodents.