They invaded the Mexican outpost at Sonoma and captured the retired general Mariano Vallejo. A group of Americans who'd settled in California, which was then part of Mexico, feared they'd be expelled. While Monarch is front and center on California's official state flag, which was adopted in 1911, the bear flag image dates back to 1846, two years before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The last reported sighting of a wild California grizzly bear was in 1924.Ĥ. Monarch was sent to San Francisco, where he was a star attraction at Woodward's Garden and then Golden Gate Park until his death in 1911. wild California grizzly bear captured by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (or, rather, the reporter he hired, Allen Kelley) in 1899. The grizzly bear on California's current state flag is a tribute to Monarch, a 1,200-lb. As California boomed-and the bear population was wiped out-it became the Golden State.ģ. California was originally known as the Grizzly Bear State. California officially became a state (the 31st) in 1850.Ģ. In turn, Mexico ceded nearly half of its territory, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. California joined the United States with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War, in 1848.
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