Wolf Cub The Great Adventure Of Count Gaston De Raousset Boulbon In California And Sonora 1850 To 1854

1927. From the Preface: The epic of Gaston's adventures belongs to the middle of the century and its background is the United States and Mexico. Find the straitlaced civilization of the Old World too oppressive, he was first attracted by California, then in its infancy and gripped by the fever that followed the discovery of gold. But the United States soon made this new country like all other civilized states in America or elsewhere. From that moment Gaston began to find himself cramped and stifled. Mexico, and especially the state of Sonora, then deluged with blood by the Apache Indians, haunted his imagination. Guided by a sort of political genius, he glimpsed the possibility of establishing there a magnificent French colony by forestalling the outstretched hand of the United States. On his own initiative, without the support of any government and in face of the opposition of Mexican authorities, he organized a small expedition which antedated by ten years the ill-starred army Napoleon III was destined to send in 1864. Gaston's failure was due to practically the same causes as that of Napoleon's expedition, and he paid for it with his life.Soulie, Maurice is the author of 'Wolf Cub The Great Adventure Of Count Gaston De Raousset Boulbon In California And Sonora 1850 To 1854' with ISBN 9780766198975 and ISBN 0766198979.