File:William Swasey bear flag 1846.jpg

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English: According to a 'true history of the Bear Flag,' in the Santa Rosa Sonoma Democrat, Aug. 8, 1874, copied in Napa Register, Aug. 15, 1874, and in other papers, we are told that the project of a flag came up in a ' casual conversation ' between Todd, Dewell, and Cowie. Dewell obtained from Mrs W. B. Elliott the flannel, domestic, and needles and thread. Blue drilling was obtained elsewhere. Cowie and Dewell had been saddlers, and the three young men proceeded to make the flag without consulting any one else, by sewing together alternate strips of red, white, and blue(!), Todd painting a star in the upper corner and a bear in the lower. Swasey, (Bancroft's Works: History of California vol. 5 page 148)
Artistic interpretation of the flag we don't know the colors of the flag, or the shape of the bear, or how many points were on the star but this my guess.
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