Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads Salton Sea Ajo and Nogales

Ajo and Nogales

This guide is comprised of painstaking detail and descriptions for 52 trails located near the towns of Big Sur

337 pages 2006 Peter Massey

Ghost own of Doble) and includes a gallery of historical photographs of the area

Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands, Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants, Land Scrip, Homesteads Salton Sea Ajo and NogalesThe story of land ownership in California from the days when the Indians were in possession to the present. The author discusses the missionary empire, the ranches under Spain and Mexico, the role of the United States Land Commission, the squatter movement, mining claims, railroad lands, and the title stories of San Francisco and Los Angeles. W. W. Robinson, 1948, 291 pages, paperback