A Bibliography of Early California
and Neighboring Territory Through 1846:
An Era of Exploration, Missions, Presidios, Ranchos, and Indians
Compiled by
Robert LeRoy Santos
California State University, Stanislaus
University Library
Alley-Cass Publications
Turlock, CA
2002
Chapter Seven
RANCHOS AND AGRICULTURE
This chapter contains works about ranchos and agriculture other than found at ranchos in California, Baja California,
Mexico, and the Southwest through 1846.
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Alvarado, Juan Bautista. Rancho Boy Alvarado: A True California Story. Edited by Jim Silverman. Sonoma, CA: California
Kids History Catalog, 1991. 25 pp. Notes: A short biography based on Alvarado's (1809-1882) memoirs and written
for the juvenile reading level. Bilingual.
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Farris, Glenn. "The Reyes Rancho in Santa Barbara County, 1802-1808." Southern California Quarterly 81:2(1999):
171-180. Notes: A short history of the rancho with discussion of local missions and Chumash Indians.
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Fletcher, D.D. "Historic Land Records of Alta California within the Jurisdiction of Branciforte." N.p.:
The Author, 1997. Notes: A typewritten manuscript kept at the University of California, Santa Cruz library.
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Ebright, Malcolm. Land Grants and Lawsuits in Northern New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
1994. 399 pp. Notes: Discusses litigation on water rights and land grants beginning in 1500s.
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Freeberg, Jane. Ranchos: Santa Barbara Land Grant Ranches. Santa Barbara: The Easton Gallery, 1996. 152 pp. Notes:
A history that is largely pictorial.
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Grenier, Judson. "The Watson Land Company: A 75th Anniversary Salute." Southern California Quarterly
69:2(1987): 165-176. Notes: Traces the history of the California rancho of 75,000 acres owned by Juan Jose Dominguez
in 1784 and later becoming the Watson Land Company's property.
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Historical Society of Southern California. Land Policy and Land Use in Southern California. Los Angeles: The Society,
1993. 275 pp. Notes: A collection of articles with some on early California. Published as a special issue of Southern
California Quarterly 75, nos. 3-4.
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Lombard, Sarah R. Rancho Tujunga: A History of Sundland-Tujunga, California. Sunland, CA: Sunland Woman's Club,
1990. 199 pp. Notes: Has information of the Indians in the area.
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Lothrop, Gloria Ricci. "Rancheras and the Land: Women and Property Rights in Hispanic California." Southern
California Quarterly 76(1994): 59-84. Notes: Chronicles women's right to own property under Spanish and Mexican
law throughout their lives with 55 women owning large land granted ranchos.
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Paladini, Eric Louis. "Making Fortunes on the Frontier of Enemies: The Agrarian Economy of San Felipe el Real
de Chihuahua, 1709-1831." Ph.D. diss., Tulane University, 2000. 185 pp. Notes: A discussion of the history
of prices of commodities at the village based on information found in the records kept at the time.
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Perez, Crisostomo N. Land Grants in Alta California: A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Private Land Claims in
the State of California. Rancho Cordova: Landmark Enterprises, 1996. 264 pp. Notes: Not only a compilation of claims
but also includes legislation and court cases in regard to the claims.
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Reinstedt, Randall A. and Ed Greco. Tales and Treasures of California's Ranchos. Carmel, CA: Ghost Town Publications,
1999. 127 pp. Notes: Juvenile reading level.
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Salonites, Eftimeos. Berryesa: The Rape of the Mexican Land Grant, Rancho Canada de Capay. Capay, CA: Mission Bell
Marketing, 1992. 334 pp. Notes: A history of the land grant and rancho of Capay Valley.
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Silliman, Stephen Walter. "Colonial Worlds, Indigenous Practices: The Archaeology of labor on a 19th-Century
California Rancho." Ph.D. diss., 2000. 496 pp. Notes: Explores history and archaeology of Rancho Petaluma,
Mariano Vallejo's land grant, to determine the level and type of interaction between the landed and the California
Indian in the circumstance of rancho labor.
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Sluyter, Andrew. "The Ecological Origins and Consequences of Cattle Ranching in Sixteenth-Century New Spain."
Geographical Review 86(April 1996): 161-178. Notes: Examines the long-term effect that the introduction of cattle
grazing by the Spanish in New Spain had on the local ecology.