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- ↑ Political Graveyard
- ↑ California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Registers, 1866-1898; Collection Number: 4-2A; CSL Roll Number: 27; FHL Roll Number: 976939
- ↑ "Case of 'Cherokee Bob,'" Los Angeles Star, January 12, 1856, page 2
- ↑ Los Angeles Star, October 13, 1857, quoted at Mountain Meadows, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- ↑ J.M. Scammell, "Military Units in Southern California, 1853–1862," California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3
- ↑ "San Bernardino," The (Sacramento) Daily Bee, September 26, 1861, page 3
- ↑ "Military Matters in the State," Daily National Democrat, Marysville, September 29, 1861, page 3
- ↑ Quoted in "Silver Bullets," The Sonoma County Journal, October 26, 1860, page 4
- ↑ "Legislative," The Daily Bee, Sacramento, February 15, 1868, page 2