California Literature

I googled the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo ) and found some interesting information. It was said that the treaty was made to form peace, friendship, limits and settlements between the United States and Mexico. It was signed on February 2, 1848. It was said that treaty (Article XI) was important to Mexico because it prevented raids by Indians into Mexico with the help of the US; however, in 1853, concluding the Gadsden Purchase - the Treaty of Mesilla had Article XI annulled. The Gadsden Purchase ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_Purchase ) was an agreement between the US and Mexico that was finalized in 1854 that said the US would agree to pay Mexico for a square mile portion of Mexico. The US will then have land necessary for the southern transcontinental railroad. The transcontinental railroad ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_railroad ) crossed the continental land mass. 

George Sterling ·        George Sterling  (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American  poet  and  playwright  based in  California  who, during his lifetime, was celebrated on the Pacific coast as one of the great American poets, although he never gained equivalent success in the rest of the United States. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sterling ) ·        Beyond the Breakers o    Nature o    The poem speaks about nature and how it plays a role in the area wear the narrator lives. It speaks of the wind that makes its way from the West. o    It is a change of weather and it illustrates each change and how it either benefits or affects the area.  o    The poem uses a lot of imagery. o    The narrator is riding through these weather changes. o    Nurture vs Nature o    Where is the nar...

William Nauns Ricks ·        Ricks was born in Wytheville, Virginia, on September 6, 1876, and came to California in 1889. An African-American veteran of the Spanish Civil War, Ricks worked at the information desk in the lobby of California Packing Corporation, but his chief occupation and interest was writing. Little is known about him, other than his activities as documented in his personal papers. Ricks was a member of several local writing organizations, active in his church, and frequently attended art, lecture, theater, and musical programs and events in the Bay Area. ( https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf887006m4/entire_text/ ) ·        The Coming Night (From the Berkeley Hills) o    Nature o    Colorful scenery o    The poem speaks of the area in which the narrator lives in. He speaks of the multiple way’s nature calms the place. How the trees make way for the wind to bl...