so my idea antonia, mariane barrow, richard burton, who's a novelist from california, who wrote several novels, but one of them is the squadron the dawn, and it's about the dispossession of a wealthy elite california people from california mexican-americans. and so i she had written about it. so i went to that right. i knew of certain organizations like, lew, like the league of united latin american citizens. so i knew that right? and so i went i started by thinking, okay, what some of these people, organizations that i know and let me see if they if they ever discussed the us-mexican war or the treaty. and so that's part of what i did. and then i, you know, looked at newspapers and such. but the difficulty is that, you know, it's not necessarily categorized way and i'm sure there are many you know sources there that i miss or i just don't know like in family papers and so forth and so, you know, luckily there there are, you know, finding aides. you for historians and so there was ways that i could that i could sort of make a make an intelligent of where and where i was going to find in

so my idea antonia, mariane barrow, richard burton, who's a novelist from california, who wrote several novels, but one of them is the squadron the dawn, and it's about the dispossession of a wealthy elite california people from california mexican-americans. and so i she had written about it. so i went to that right. i knew of certain organizations like, lew, like the league of united latin american citizens. so i knew that right? and so i went i started by thinking, okay, what some of these people, organizations that i know and let me see if they if they ever discussed the us-mexican war or the treaty. and so that's part of what i did. and then i, you know, looked at newspapers and such. but the difficulty is that, you know, it's not necessarily categorized way and i'm sure there are many you know sources there that i miss or i just don't know like in family papers and so forth and so, you know, luckily there there are, you know, finding aides. you for historians and so there was ways that i could that i could sort of make a make an intelligent of where and where i was going to find in