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Los Coyotes-Testimony...etc. Ranchos-Lower California: Ensenada De Todos Santos, Guadalupe, San Antonio, Santa Rosa, Tecate, Tijuana, Valle De San Rafael, Los Vallecitos, various ranches...

Type
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Production date
1821-1935.
Call number
mssStearns
Creator
Stearns, Abel (1798-1871)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description
Correspondents include Juan Bandini, Cave Johnson Couts, Tomas Eleuterio Estenaga, John Forster, Thomas Oliver Larkin, Perfecto Hugo Reid, Alfred Robinson, and others.
Provenance
Purchased from Mrs. Margaret Gaffey Kilroy, February 1937.
donated by Mrs. Kilroy and by Mrs. Susanna Bryant Dakin, 1939.
Associated people
Bandini, Juan, (1800-1859.)
Bandini, Juan Bautista. (1821-1874.)
Couts, Cave Johnson, (1814-1882.)
Esténaga, Tomás Eleutério. (1802-1858.)
Forster, John, (1811?-1853.)
Gaffey, John Tracy. (1806-1895.)
Larkin, Thomas Oliver, (1853-1901.)
Reid, Hugo,
Robinson, Alfred,
White, Stephen Mallory,
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