This week we're going back to a weird, weird version of 19th-century Nicaragua with Walker! Join us as we learn about William Walker's ill-fated efforts in Sonora, the Filibuster War, the El Nicaraguense newspaper, and more!

Sources: Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketch: "Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days'": https://youtu.be/XL54pji1nfA?si=o0UbrhVH1ewe3p3J Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_(film) Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/walker Roger Ebert's Review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/walker-1987 Craig J Clark, "Alex Cox Says Goodbye--and Good Riddance--To Hollywood," Crooked Marquee, available at https://crookedmarquee.com/alex-cox-says-goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-hollywood/

Rufus Kay Wyllys, "William Walker's Invasion Of Sonora, 1854" Arizona Historical Review, http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623744 Rufus Kay Wyllys, "The Republic of Lower California, 1853-1854," Pacific Historical Review 2:2 (1933): 194-213. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3633829 Robert G. Cleland, "Bandini's Account of William Walker's Invasion of Lower California," Huntington Library Quarterly 7:2 (1944): 153-66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3815990 The Sierra citizen. (Downieville, CA), Feb. 11 1854. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86058097/1854-02-11/ed-1/. The Nevada journal. (Nevada City, CA), Apr. 14 1854. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84026884/1854-04-14/ed-1/

Joseph Bilby, "Through Hades with his Hat Off: The strange career of A.J. Morrison," Military Images 11:5 (1990): 14-15. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44032253 Walter Johnson, "The Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny," in River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 2013). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvjsf5q7.17 Michel Gobat, Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America (Harvard University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv24w64hk.7

Issue of El Nicaraguense from 3/12/1856, UT Austin Archives: available at https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:c81aa1b7-44bd-444c-b097-de95dd810392 Issues of El Nicaraguense, Volume 1: https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/nicaragua/El_Nicaraguense-Aug-Nov-1856.pdf James Carson Jamison, With Walker in Nicaragua. First Battle of Rivas excerpt available at https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=GYpnAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA28&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en