Pioneers of Riverside County

The Spanish, Mexican and Early American Periods

Steve Lech

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781614237839
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Riverside County encompasses more than two million people and most of the width of California, from Los Angeles's eastern suburbs to the Arizona state line at the Colorado River. Historian Steve Loch captures the vanished past of this vast swath of deserts and mountains--the eras of Spanish and then Mexican rule and the exploits of the earliest settlers of the American period. Juan Bautista de Anza, Louis Robidoux and many other namesake figures of today's geography are described in this unabridged excerpt of the author's comprehensive and masterly history Along the Old Roads.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Part I. The Spanish Period
• Part II. The Mexican Period
• Part III. The Early American Period
• Appendix A. Listing of Anza’s Place Names with Corresponding Present-Day Place Names
• Appendix B. Captain José Romero’s Letter to Don Antonio Narbona, January 16, 1824
• Appendix C. Louis Robidoux’s Letter to Manuel Alvarez, Giving Robidoux’s Account of the Battle of Chino
• Appendix D. Mexican Rancho Land Grants of Riverside County, California
• Appendix E. The Township and Range System of Surveying
• Appendix F. Charles Nordhoff’s Description of the La Laguna Rancho
• Appendix G. George Wharton James’s Description of Bradshaw’s Road from the Colorado River to Dos Palmas
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Author