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Title: California Bo-Hoy Taking Leave of His Gal

Description: One of the California Bo-Hoy s Taking Leave of His Gal; humorous lithograph of a U.S. colonel from California departing for the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). "Bo-Hoy" was a slang word meaning "rowdy young man;" the war was a U.S. and Mexican territorial dispute between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers that led to open war between the two countries on May 13, 1846; the war ended with U.S. troops in possession of California, the Southwest, northern Mexico, and central Mexico from Veracruz to Mexico City; in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded to the U.S. the territories of California and New Mexico and all the land up to the Rio Grande River, and also relinquished its claim to Texas; in return, the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million;

Category: Mexican-American War

Keywords: Bo-Hoys, California, colonels, Mexican War (1846-1848), Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Mexico, Texas, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, United States, U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), 1840s.