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Rose, L. J. (Leonard John), 1827-1899. Papers of Leonard John Rose, 1858-1953.

Title: Papers of Leonard John Rose, 1858-1953.

Leonard John Rose, Jr. was an amateur historian and this collection contains drafts of his memoirs and descriptions of 18th and 19th century California social life and customs. In "A Serial in Three Parts," L. J. Rose, Jr. thoroughly describes the livestock management practices and horsemanship of Mexican cowboys in 18th and 19th century California. In Gringos Grandees he further illustrates the social life and customs of Mexicans and Native Americans living in a small village in the San Gabriel Valley. In this manuscript, L. J. Rose, Jr., narrates his and his father's life stories, with accounts of his family's move west, success in wine production and horse breeding, but it is also a local view of Los Angeles and California history in the second half of the 19th century. The writing in this collection of Leonard John Rose is limited to his accounts of leading a failed California bound emigrant train from the Midwest. The third section contains short biographies of L. J. Rose and Calvin F. Fargo, narratives of the Rose Party, and the diary of Martha True Fargo, L.J. Rose, Jr.'s mother-in-law. The diary provides a social history of women in Portage, Wisconsin in 1864. The ephemera section of this collection revolves around newspaper and magazine clippings about the Rose family, their homes and estates, their prize winning horses, and their wine production. Some of the newspaper articles are from the Los Angeles Times and the Illustrated Los Angeles Herald, while the magazine articles include a 1950 three part series entitled, "Pastime of Millions" by Carleton F. Burke in The Thoroughbred of California. This collection contains references to several notable individuals such as: Guy Rose, Jean Louis Vignes, Leland Stanford, Tiburcio Vasquez, Robert Bonner, William Henry Vanderbilt, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Stephen Watts Kearny, and Henry Tifft Gage. Items in this collection touch upon several aspects of California history from the 18th and 19th centuries such as: agriculture, gold discoveries, Californios, capitalists, Chinese Americans, droughts, harness horse breeding and racing, Kearny's Expedition, land grants, livestock, the San Gabriel Mission, Mohave Indians, Anglo-American pioneers, railroads, ranches and ranch life. This collection also contains items on 19th century New York auctions and culture, horse breeding and racing in the United States, overland journeys to California, and women in 19th century Wisconsin.

ArchivalResource: 57 items.

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Bradbury, L. L. Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California, 1847-1889.

Title: Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California, 1847-1889.

The four volumes are entitled: 1. "Hastings Ranch - Chapman Tract;" 2. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, U.S. Govt Lands;" 3. "Hastings Ranch - Bailey Tract and U.S. Lands;" and 4. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, Sierra Madre Tract." The volumes contain handwritten and printed copies of the following documents: agreements, abstracts of title, land deeds, land grants (patents), legal documents, mortgages, plats, wills, tax documents, survey results, estate records, and inventories of property. The documents cover a 42-year history of Rancho Santa Anita and Hastings Ranch, California. All of the various owners of the property are represented in the volumes including: Hugo Reid, Henry Dalton, Lewis L. Bradbury, Alfred and William Chapman, Albert and Thomas Dibble, William Corbett, Lewis and William Wolfskill, Benjamin Davis Wilson, Leonard J. Rose, Joseph A. Rowe, and Charles Cook Hastings. More specifically there are several documents dealing with the estates of Hugo and Victoria Reid, the Chapmans, the Wolfskills and Charles Cook Hastings. There are also documents involving the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California. Volume 4 includes one letter about a survey of the land.

ArchivalResource: 4 bound volumes.

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