He made some rehab appearances with Class-A Rancho Cucamonga in July but suffered a setback and was shut down.

Highwayman Jack Powers briefly took over Mission Santa Inés and the adjacent Rancho San Marcos in 1853, intending to rustle the cattle belonging to rancher Nicolas A. Den, but he was defeated in a bloodless armed confrontation.

Antonio Lugo built several adobe homes within the boundaries of the Rancho San Antonio grant, and raised cattle.

During the early 19th century, the land was used for cattle ranching by Mission San Luis Rey, which named the area Rancho San Jacinto.

He and his family did not live there, but rather raised cattle and crops for money on " Rancho Cachinetac " ( a Spanish derivation of " Cachanihtac ").

While the Civil War had little effect on Santa Barbara, the disastrous drought of 1863 ended the Rancho Period, as most of the cattle died and ranchos were broken up and sold.

The area became part of the Rancho Ojai Mexican land grant made to Fernando Tico in 1837, and he established a cattle ranch.

He established a sheep and cattle ranch known as El Mar Rancho in 1853 or 1855.

For some years, tar-covered bones were found on the Rancho La Brea property, but were not initially recognized as fossils, because the ranch itself had lost various animals, including horses, cattle, dogs, and even camels, whose bones closely resemble several of the fossil species.

While retaining most of the 19th century structures dating from the Caire period, Stanton constructed a few buildings to meet the needs of his cattle ranch, the most notable of which is Rancho del Norte on the isthmus.

The Mission Gabriel established the Rancho Cucamonga as a site for grazing their cattle.

It was named Rancho de los Palos Verdes, or " ranch of the green sticks ", which was used primarily as a cattle ranch.

His other film roles include that of a wealthy Montana land baron whose cattle are being rustled in 1975's Rancho Deluxe and as the source who tips off newspaperman Bruce Willis to a potentially explosive story in The Bonfire of the Vanities.

After agriculture, cattle, sheep and horses were established by the Missions, Friars, soldiers and Mission Indians the Rancho owners dismissed the Friars and the soldiers and took over the Mission land and livestock starting in 1834 — the Mission Indians were left to survive however they could.

In 1822, after the Mexican War of Independence brought freedom for Mexico from Spain, Antonio Ygnacio Avila received a Mexican land grant for Rancho Sausal Redondo in Alta California, where he grazed cattle.

Francisco Avila, a Californio and wealthy cattle rancher, was the grantee of Rancho Las Cienegas west of the pueblo ( present day mid-Wilshire district ).

Located along Antonio Parkway and Crown Valley Parkway, construction of the community began in 1999 on portions of the O ' Neill, Avery, & Moiso families ' 23, 000 acre ( 93 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) Rancho Mission Viejo cattle ranch, the largest remaining working ranch in Orange County.

Rancho Mission Viejo is still a working ranch with 600 head of cattle and has more than of citrus trees, as well as crops of avocados, beans and barley.

José de la Guerra y Noriega, a Captain of the Santa Barbara Presidio, who had begun to acquire large amounts of land in California to raise cattle, purchased Rancho Simi from the Pico family in 1842.

In the interim, squatters continued to overrun Rancho San Antonio, stealing and killing cattle and even subdividing and selling land belonging to the Peraltas.

After a fire destroyed it and seven-eighths of the town, David visited his brother, William, a successful cattle rancher at the Rancho La Puente, east of Los Angeles, and was convinced to relocate there.

Under owner James Ben Ali Haggin, the Rancho was famous for its horse breeding ; one of the horses bred on the Rancho won the Ben Ali Stakes, also known as the Kentucky Derby.

Some trains had more than a thousand horses loaded at one time from Rancho Del Paso.

Rancho del Cielo — the adobe house ( center ) that belonged to President and Mrs. Reagan, " Lake Lucky " ( right ), and the barn ( center, partially hidden ) for the horses.

The Peraltas ' Rancho San Antonio continued after Alta California passed from Spanish to Mexican sovereignty after the Mexican War of Independence.

Spanish settlers also knew of the seeps, such as at Rancho La Brea ( Spanish for Tar Ranch ) in present-day Los Angeles, from which the priests obtained tar to waterproof the roofs of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel missions.

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Mary Martin died a month before her 77th birthday from colorectal cancer at her home in Rancho Mirage, California on November 3, 1990.

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Following independent Mexico's secularization of the Alta California missions from 1834 to 1843, the buildings of La Purisima Mission were abandoned, and the lands were granted Rancho Ex-Mission la Purisima.

The city was founded in 1850 by William McDaniel, on a part of the 1843 Mexican land grant Rancho Los Putos purchased from Manuel Cabeza Vaca.

* St. John Fisher-Bishop and Martyr from St. John Fisher Catholic Church, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

Zelzah Acres became the name of one of those early housing tracts carved from the former enormous Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando lands joining nearby towns of Chatsworth Park, Lankershim, Owensmouth, San Fernando and Van Nuys.

It was known as the Rancho Boyeros because in colonial times a local family had built a thatched hut and provided meals and an inn to the weary drovers that brought agricultural products to the capital from Batabano and Vuelta Abajo.

The Concow region is 20 miles north of the city of Oroville ( an Anglo-Hispanic compound meaning ' gold-town ') and about the same distance east of the town of Chico ( named for Rancho Arroyo Chico — meaning ' little creek ranch ' -- which was established through a land-grant from the Mexican authorities in 1844, two years before California was invaded by United States forces, an indication that there was some Mexican presence near the Concow region.

Brentwood was originally laid out on land donated from property owned by John Marsh, an East Contra Costa County pioneer who acquired Rancho Los Meganos, the land grant that Brentwood is built upon, in 1837 from Jose Noriega.

After Mexican independence from Spain in the early 19th century, Spanish colonists were given land grants, one of which was Rancho El Sobrante, deeded to Juan Jose and Víctor Castro in 1841.

In 1823, Ygnacio Martinez, commandant of the Presidio of San Francisco, received a land grant of Rancho El Pinole from the Mexican government.

Rodeo owes much of its history to brothers John and Patrick Tormey, who purchased tracts of land from the Ygnacio Martinez Rancho El Pinole estate in 1865 and 1867.

Corporal Duarte finally won a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court for his land grant case in 1878, but by then he had sold the entire Rancho.

English settlers, Americans from the Midwest and Deep South, Latinos who remained from the Rancho and Japanese immigrants enabled Duarte to grow into a thriving agricultural community specializing in citrus production.

The Colony commands breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean, affording a spectacular coastline view stretching from Santa Monica to Rancho Palos Verdes to the south ( known locally as the Queen's Necklace ) and the bluffs of Point Dume to the north.

The racial makeup of West Rancho Dominguez was 1, 054 ( 18. 6 %) White, 2, 974 ( 52. 5 %) African American, 32 ( 0. 6 %) Native American, 46 ( 0. 8 %) Asian, 21 ( 0. 4 %) Pacific Islander, 1, 354 ( 23. 9 %) from other races, and 188 ( 3. 3 %) from two or more races.

Then, in 1846 he purchased of land from Timothy Murphy, grantee of Rancho San Pedro, Santa Margarita y Las Gallinas.

John S. Clarke and other promoters laid out the town from 1902 to 1905 on part of the Rancho Arroyo Seco Mexican land grant.

After his death in 1804, his sons retained title to Rancho Los Nietos, but these lands were eventually broken up and distributed among them in 1833 by a grant from the Mexican governor, José Figueroa.