The Sky Lark, 1876.

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The Sky Lark, 1876.

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Volume 1, issue 1, of a one-page advertiser issued in Mayfield, CA, Oct. 21, 1876. Includes short notice that Peter Coutts was building a brick tower near his home.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Caperon, Jean-Baptiste Paulin.

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Coutts, P. J. F. (Peter J. F.)

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Jean-Baptiste Paulin Caperon (better known in California as Peter Coutts), was a successful French businessman, book collector and editor of the republican, anti-royalist paper, LA LIBERTEĢ. Political disputes and health problems caused him to leave France and take up residence in California. In 1875 Caperon, now known as Peter Coutts, purchased 1,400 acres just north of Mayfield and named it Rancho Matadero. Coutts returned to Europe in 1880 to reclaim his confiscated estates and Rancho Matader...