Bear Flag Revolt

American settlers rebel in 1845 when Mexican authorities order them off their California homesteads. Fifteen-year-old David Brennan, who came west with Kit Carson as a civilian member of Captain John Frémont’s mapmaking expedition, joins the rebels. The rebel’s ragtag army captures Sonoma, declares independence from Mexico, and creates the Bear Flag Republic. If “Pathfinder” Frémont has secret orders from President James Polk to seize California, why does he hesitate to participate in the rebellion? After General Kearny’s dragoons and Commodore Stockton’s sailors and marines arrive to conquer