The California state flag that we know today was not adopted by the state legislature until 1953, but how did a bear, a red star and the words “California Republic” find themselves on the ...

Bear flag: A June 14 Op-Ed about the California flag and the Bear Flag revolt incorrectly referred to U.S. Consul Charles O. Larkin as John Larkin. Ezekiel Merritt’s surname was misspelled Merrit.

But how much do you know about the origins of the state flag — the grizzly bear perched on a patch of green, the red star high on the left, the words “California Republic” below? It’s a ...

The flag consisted of a star and a bear in the upper-left corner with the words California Republic underneath, with a single red stripe along the bottom. Flag of the United States, 1848 In ...

LOS ANGELES — Grizzly bears are extinct in California but still show up everywhere you look. The golden bruins emblazon the state flag and seal ... Flats and Big Bear Lake.

To Patterson, flags aren’t just images ... in Sonoma and raised a flag painted with a red star, a grizzly bear and the words “California Republic.” Some of them were maybe a bit drunk.

California’s grizzly bear flag was adopted at the behest of the Native Sons of the Golden West, a group that believed California was given by God to a “white people.” Contra Costa Times/KRT ...

with its unique black-on-yellow and red-on-white geometric patterns; and California’s, which features a loping grizzly bear above the words “California Republic.” And when a flag fails to ...

The flag consisted of a star and a bear in the upper-left corner with the words California Republic underneath, with a single red stripe along the bottom. Flag of the United States, 1848 In ...