This is just out. Now that New California State has been discussing this history for the past 7 years the History Channel brings this forward. Discusses the period between 1836 and 1846. Does a very good job except for the “Californios”!
Davy Crockett makes a stand at The Alamo; President Polk risks war with Britain and Mexico, sending John C. Frémont and Kit Carson on a secret mission that ignites a war for California and the Pacific, in Season 1, Episode 4, “Empire of Liberty.”
“The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen” spans a formative period of history featuring the first 75 volatile years of the United States – from the Revolution through the California Gold Rush – where Daniel Boone, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, John Frémont, Davy Crockett and Andrew Jackson set forth across uncharted land with determination and self-reliance.
