California Conquered: War and Peace on the Pacific, 1846-1850

California Conquered: War and Peace on the Pacific, 1846-1850 by Harlow, Neal. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780520044302.

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982. 1st Edition, Hardbound, 9.5 inches tall, 499 pages. A few black and white illustrations. Author Neal Harlow recounts the efforts of president James Polk and his agents -- the timorous Sloat, the elusive Fremont, the egotistical and domineering Commodore Stockton and the brave if bumptious Captain Gillespie -- to capture and hold California "if possible... without any strife." Yet strife there was. A companion volume -- California The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846 - 1850 followed later (issued in paperback in 1989).