500 ECHOS-1995-224 eng Delaplane, Kristin Juan Manuel Vaca: The don of Vacaville Mar 12, 1995 Information for this article came from "History of the Vaca Clan," by Jeff Paul. The Vacaville Heritage Council and the Vacaville Museum. The family name Vaca came about during the Moorish wars in Spain. Any man who marked a strategic river ford with a cow's skull was rewarded by the king with the name Cabeza de Vaca (cow's head). vacahc@gmail.com 224 53783467322 Publication/Article CaVaHC http://www.solanoarticles.com/history/index.php/vhcdb/224/ Read Article http://www.solanohistory.net/articles/224/224.1.pdf PDF Document