An aristocracy of color : race and reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890 / D. Michael Bottoms.

An American genocide : the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873 / Benjamin Madley.

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An aristocracy of color : race and reconstruction in California and the West, 1850-1890 / D. Michael Bottoms.

An American genocide : the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873 / Benjamin Madley.