The Record Book of the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino
Los Angeles: Published by the author, 1935. INSCRIBED "Inscribed for the Hagers, St. Patrick's Day 1964. Lindley Bynum". Tall 8vo. 1 preliminary leaf with mounted facsimile, 55 pp. Transcribed and edited by Lindley Bynum. Laid in is a small note from Mrs. Lindley Bynum, to the Hagers following Lindley's death in 1965. Printed and bound by Vocational Printing Classes of John C. Fremont High School, Los Angeles, June 1935. Brown printed wrappers, leather string-tied. Wear to extremities; small loss at lower front edge; a very good copy. Item #22513
Rancho Santa Ana del Chino was a 22,193-acre Mexican land grant in the Chino Hills and southwestern Pomona Valley, in present-day San Bernardino County, California. It was granted to Antonio Maria Lugo in 1841 by Mexican Alta California Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado. In the same year, it was purchased by his son-in-law, Isaac Williams, one of the earliest American emigrants to California. Thereafter it was a post of importance until the rush of the gold seekers slackened. The Rancho's record book ranged from 1849 to 1854, and served as a register, a record of experiences of the overland travel and as a clearing house of information for parties followoing, regarding destination and disposition of effects and cattle.
Price: $200.00