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W. W. Robinson

Land in California: Story of Mission Lands Ranchos Squatters

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A writer of great warmth and skill . . . Robinson has taken the complicated business of land titles and, without generalizing or avoiding statistics, he has done the unbelievable—made a story any reader will be unable to put down. Here are the original owners, who had no land titles except those from the Great Spirit; the mission priests and their overseeing of Indian lands; the presidios and pueblos; the great Spanish and Mexican land grants and how they were torn away from the dons piecemeal by loan sharks, squatters. Here came thieves and adventurers (with a few notable exceptions, such as Don Abel Stearns, the Yankee was a highwayman) swa… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-520-03875-2
  • EAN: 9780520038752
  • Produktnummer: 21866320
  • Verlag: Univ Of California Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1979
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.8 cm x D1.7 cm 354 g
  • Gewicht: 354

Über den Autor


William Wilcox Robinson (1891-1972) wrote many pamphlets, articles, and books on Southern California history, including: Ranchos Become Cities (1939), Land in California (1948), Los Angeles, a Profile (1968), and Bombs and Bribery (1969). 

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