It was only the American war of annexation waged against Mexico that sidelined the American ambition to annex Britain’s half of the Columbia territory. Concluded with the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe, the pattern repeated itself from Wyoming to Southern California: the Yavapai slaughter, the Sand Creek Massacre, the Mendocino War, the Yuki genocide, the Snake River War, the Colorado War, and so on.
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