Hurtado, Intimate Frontiers, Ch. 2

What attracted or brought white Americans and Englishmen to California by the 1830s? 

Why did Anglo men wish to marry these Mexican young women and why did the women’s fathers allow this?

Why did the daughters usually not resist such marriages?

How did American attitudes about women resemble and differ from Mexican Californians?

What did Anglo men have to do in order to wed a Mexican woman?

How were the experiences of interior California different from the coastal areas?

Why was a guy like Sutter able to control marriages in his area?

How or why did marriages between American men and Indian women differ from those between Anglo men and californios’ daughters?