John Marsh
"In the meanwhile Fremont took Sutter's Fort and dispatched some of his followers against Vallejo at Sonoma. There they took the garrison by surprise. One of their number issued a proclamation declaring California independent of Mexico and hoisted aloft a flag showing a grizzly bear upon a white field. The Californians mistook the bruin for a pig.
"Marsh received this news through an express from Fort Sutter. It filled him with dismay. Like all old settlers, he was greatly startled by the Sonoma action, and blamed Fremont for putting it in motion, knowing it meant the end of all good feeling between the Californians and the resident Americans."
From John Marsh, Pioneer by George D. Lyman (1930).
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