The Journal of San Diego History Winter 1972, Volume 18, Number 1 James E. Moss, Editor Original Articles The Internment of the Japanese of San Diego County during the Second World War By Gerald Schlenker The Historical Archives of Baja California Sur. Their antecedents and Recent Creation By Miguel Leon-Portilla The Stage to El Centro By Orion Zink Book Reviews Franciscan Missionaries in Hispanic California, 1769-1848 By Maynard Geiger, O.F.M. Reviewed by Eleanor Adams. Surfboats and Horse Marines: U.S. Naval Operations in the Mexican War, 1846-48 By K. Jack Bauer. Reviewed by Glenn W. Price Letters from California, 1846-47. William Robert Garner. By Donald Munro Craig. Reviewed by Edwin T. Coman, Jr. John Phoenix, Esq., The Veritable Squibob. A Life of Captain George H. Derby. By George R. Stewart. Reviewed by Robert Redding Sketches of a Journey on the Two Oceans and to the Interior of America and of a Civil War in Northern Lower California By Abbe Henry-J. A. Alric. Reviewed by David J. Weber California in Color. An Essay on the Paradox of Plenty By T. H. Watkins. Reviewed by Douglas H. Strong. The American Southwest: Its Peoples and Cultures By Lynn I. Perrigo. Reviewed by Richard F. Pourade. Book Notes The Colorful Butterfield Overland Stage: Reproductions in Color of 21 Paintings by Marjorie Reed From the Collection of James S. Copley San Diego History—In Documents THE MEXICAN TREATY, THE MILITARY, RAILROADS AND POLITICS Compiled by Helen Gohres San Diego History Sidelights on the Light Side—[Newspaper Clippings from 1800s] Letters to the Editor   Front Cover image: Birthplace of The San Diego Union, October 10, 1868, 2626 San Diego Avenue Old Town, San Diego, California. From the hand-made red cedar roof shakes to the fir floor boards, the birthplace of The San Diego Union newspaper looks today much as it did a century ago. Here the earliest editions of the Union came off the press in 1968. The building is believed to have been erected about 1850 on land owned by Miguel Pedrorena or his family. Pedrorena was one of the authors of the Constitution of California. Although the building was used as a dwelling as well as a printing office, and through the years experienced a number of alterations, it is now faithfully restored to its pristine condition of a century ago. The restoration project and museum interpretation, historically accurate in every respect, is sponsored by the Union-Tribune Publishing Company. The cover illustration, a watercolor by Richard Gabriel Chase, was commissioned in 1969 by Fred B. Mitchell. Prints from the original painting were donated to the San Diego Historical Society by Mr. Mitchell before his death in 1970. Copies of The San Diego Union painting, as well as those from paintings of other historic structures commissioned by Mr. Mitchell, are for sale in the Society's Bookstore at Serra Museum, Presidio Park. This issue of the The Journal of San Diego History was scanned and proofread by volunteer Bill Parsons. Learn how you can help, too!