Board of Directors of the Joint Companies, 381, 425, 551

Boardman, Rev. H. A., 327

Bobby (the enlisted men's name for the Commodore Robert F. Stockton), 193, 205–206, 208, 226

Boston

Harbor, 46

Navy Yard, 43

Brass band for Commodore, 207

Breckinridge, John C., 360, 364

breeches' pocket

where Stockton supposedly kept New Jersey, 264

British encirclement

American nightmare, 146, 235

British Mutiny Act of 1797, 28

Brockmann, R. John, 499, 533, 536

Brodhead, Senator Richard, 292, 296, 298

Brooklyn Navy Yard, 5, 91, 144

Brooks, Erastus, 351

Brunswick (Georgia), 65, 72

Bryant, William C., 389

Buchanan, James

Secretary of State and President, 150, 154, 163, 166–168, 177, 254, 293, 302, 308, 310, 352, 360, 364, 368

Bullard, Mary R., 559

Burke, Edmund, 561

Burlington Gazette, 261, 263, 270

Burlington, railroad accident in 1855, 322–325, 341–342, 344, 354, 403, 407, 409–410, 424, 427, 431, 434, 436–437, 556, 558

immediate cause (Dr. Heineken crossing of the tracks), 322, 436

proximate cause, 326, 413, 419, 421

bury the cat (cease flogging), 13, 293–294, 296, 298

Butler, Andrew Pickens Senator (South Carolina), 302, 361

Cahuenga, treaty of, 214–215

Caldwell, Elias Boudinot, 38–39

California, 2–4, 14, 19, 35, 61–62, 65, 145, 151, 156–157, 162, 165–168, 170–180, 182–185, 187, 192–193, 195–196, 200, 202–203, 212, 215–216, 218–220, 222–223, 226–228, 230–238, 240, 243–246, 249–256, 265–266, 268–269, 271, 289, 293, 298, 302, 312, 346, 353, 363, 379, 393, 397, 400–401, 403, 548–549, 552–554, 556, 559

California, from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco (Royce), 232–233, 553

Californian (newspaper), 219, 244–245

Californios, 168–172, 180, 182, 184, 186–187, 192, 194, 196, 200–203, 209–216, 232–240, 246, 549

Camino Real, 202

Los Angeles, 192, 203, 212, 220, 244, 247

Misrepresentations of Early California History Corrected, 232, 553