@BillRM,
Your little brown people and their Spanish overlords had three centuries to do anything with California before Louis and Clark or any other Anglo ever saw the ******* place. How'd they blow that????
I mean, when Lewis and Clark got to California, they should have found cities with tall buildings and bridges and roads and millions of little brown people happily doing little brown people stuff and spanish overlords doing spanish overlord stuff. Why didn't they? I mean with a three century head start, there should have been absolutely no way in hell Anglos could just walk into California in the early to mid 1800s and take the place over, should there?