Some resources regarding the Salt Pomo, and Salt Wars in California:

The Ethno-geography of the Pomo and Neighboring Indians

Samuel Alfred Barrett,  pg 240

Handbook of California Indians, 
Bureau of American Ethnlogy, Bulletin 78

Alfred Kroeber, pg 236: The Salt Wars.

War Before Civilization

Lawrence H. Keeley,  pg 123

Salt, A World History
Mark Kurlansky's excellent book, in which one will find exhaustive information on the essential mineral, but no mention of the San Elizario Salt War or Louis Cardis.

A link to the 1877 New York Times.


TEXAS BORDER TROUBLES.
ORIGIN OF THE SALT LAKES RIOTS.

"Mr. Cardis, who is to the Americans what Montezuma was to the Aztecs"

How I got here.

I met a retired carpenter in Ferrara, Italy, who called himself  the real Geppetto. Hanging from the ceiling of his bottega were dozens of carved Pinocchio puppets. He told me grew up on the Adriatic, not far away, in the city of Comacchio. Two years later I came across the story of the destrutuction, by Venice, in the year 946, of Comacchio and most of its inhabitants. They had sacked it once before, in 854. Venice would control Comacchio's salt production capability.

  The vector of my research  has led me to the story of Louis Cardis (1825-1877), an Italian emigrant who, more than 1000 after Comacchio was wiped from the map, was himself in the middle of a salt war in Texas. Curious about who Cardis was and how he got to Texas, I began to follow a path of inquiry that now includes this blog.

 My goals are:

  - to trace Cardis' origins in Italy

  - shed light on the years of his life between 1854  and 1864

The blog will take the form of occasional notes, links to resources, questions, tangents, images and (hopefully) comments.

The most informative source on Louis Cardis and his role in the San Elizario Salt War is:


Salt Warriors
Paul Cool's meticulously researched book.