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Bell, Maj. Horace. Reminiscences of a Ranger; or, Early Times in Southern California. Los Angeles: Yarnell, Caystile, & Mathes, 1881. https://archive.org/stream/reminiscencesofr00bellrich/reminiscencesofr00bellrich_djvu.txt
Bell’s first penned memoir discusses the Los Angeles Rangers establishment and becoming founder of Los Angeles’ earliest paper The Porcupine. Defending the Californios and the Chinese Community, and mentioned in a variety of my secondary and primary sources on eighteenth century life in California, his ‘colorful’ commentary on cultural life in Los Angeles provides a first-hand perspective of cultural conflict and the creation of cultural geographic boundaries. Note: This original item was located at the Huntington Library, however is not accessible without a written request for PhD research.
California. 1850. Reports on cases determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney.
This primary source document describes the legal case surrounding the damage incurred during the Chinese Massacre of 1871. Chinese merchants collectively sued the Mayor, City Council, and the City of Los Angeles for repair costs of destroyed goods. This primary source, in conjunction with the estimated costs, illustrates bias cultural segregation in the development of nineteenth-century Los Angeles. This is available by public access of the Orange Legal Law Library computers only, but located my remarks online through Google.
David, Leon Thomas. “The Oral History of Leon Thomas David: This History of Los Angeles as Seen from the City Attorney’s Office”. California Legal History, (2011). 277-319.
Judge David recalls his oral history and interactions on his experience and empirical research on Los Angeles in 1950. Becoming a pioneering legal historian, his service in the City Attorney’s office provides a direct perspective and specific aspects on Los Angeles’ changing cityscape. This modern oral history discusses key topics in my research; including the city attorney’s reaction to 1871 Chinese Massacre trails and cultural exclusion changed the Los Angeles cityscape. This was accessed through CSUF’s database.
See, Lisa. On Gold Mountain: The One-hundred-year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family. New York: Vintage Books, 2012.
Beginning with her great-great grandfather, Lisa See examines her heritage from Canton to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Organized, as Drew Faust’s This Republic of Suffering¸ she utilizes cognitive mapping of Los Angeles, her two-family linage, census records, and oral histories to track their trek to Gold Mountain in California. Using her first hand experiences as a ‘red-haired girl with a Chinese heart’, pointing to her privileged merchant family history, she argues late nineteenth-century non-Anglo Angelenos melted into a blended formation of American-Chinese This book assists discusses first hand-accounts of her grandfather’s prostitute undergarment factory coming under scrutiny for hiring Chinese workers during 1882 Exclusion Act. Also ties to the transnational and cultural authority themes of my topic. This was accessed through CSUF’s database.