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Pío de Jesús Pico was a Californio rancher and politician, the last governor of Alta California under Mexican rule. He served from 1845 to 1846. He was also elected to one term on the Los Angeles Common Council. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. May 1801 – 11. September 1894
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“What are we to do then? Shall we remain supine, while these daring strangers are overrunning our fertile plains, and gradually outnumbering and displacing us? Shall these incursions go on unchecked, until we shall become strangers in our own land?”

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Los Angeles Almanac http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi05s.htm
Mexican-American War

“If those gringos imagine for a moment they can take me back there and show me in a side tent at two bits a head they are very mistaken.<”

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William David Estrada, Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and contested space (2008)
Columbian Exposition

Imagination

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