Alta California - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • In the second half of the 19th century, there was a San Francisco-based newspaper called The Daily Alta California (or The Alta Californian). Mark Twain's first widely successful book, The Innocents Abroad, was an edited collection of letters written for this publication.
  • In the 1998 film, The Mask of Zorro, fictional former Governor Don Rafael Montero plans to purchase the area from Mexico to set up an independent republic, roughly corresponding to historical Alta California.
  • The Carl Barks comic book Donald Duck in Old California! provided a glimpse into the lives of the Californios.

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