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English
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Soldiers under Stephen Kearney
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California Historical Society Quarterly
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1966
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45
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133-48
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Sketches the lives and later careers of five men who served under General Kearney in the so-called Army of the West and who exerted the first American influence on California. 1) Captain Henry Smith Turner, whose letters and journal are important historical sources, in the 1850s was a banker in San Francisco and later in St. Louis. 2) Lieutenant William Hemsley Emory served on the two boundary commissions for surveying the Mexican-U.S. line. 3) John Mix Stanley, artist, had a series of monor tragedies and narrow escapes. He was the first to photograph the American Indian. All but five of his many paintings were lost in the Smithsonian Institution fire of 1865. 4) Captain John Strother Griffin, a surgeon, resigned his commission in 1854 to become a leader in civic, business, and educational affairs in Los Angeles. 5) Philip St. George Cooke was the leader of the Mormon Battalion. The defection to the South of most of his family made him an object of suspicion. (Edith P. Stickney)