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Ranchers carve homestead from wilderness / Delaplane, Kristin [419] [ECHOS-1999-419]
''In 1892, William Henry Samuels homesteaded this ranch, which is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Part of the ranch is in Napa County. When they first moved up here it was mostly brush and rocks and they raised sheep. The sheep were slaughtered right here and the meat taken down to town [...]

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WY0150

Rock carving on top of Pena Hill east of the Pena Adobe. What F1 stands for is unknown. (no negative) see RR0028 and RR0068a,b..

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0354B

The ranch was north of Cement. They raised their own meat, had own butcher shop

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Ranch Towns In Two Areas / Wichels, Ernest [854] [WICHELS-1964-854]
Most people think of Vallejo strictly a shipyard city. Many find it difficult to believe that once it qualified as a "ranch town." Ranchowners, the hundreds of employes in dairy operations, cattle and sheep raising, and grain and hay harvests, formed a vital segment of Vallejo's economy in early days.

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Longtime Solanoan recalls family's past / Delaplane, Kristin [415] [ECHOS-1999-415]
Granville Swift was my great-grandmother's brother. He got to California in 1841. In about 1844, he moved to Orland where he started a horse and cattle ranch. "In 1848, when gold was discovered, he went over to the American and Feather rivers and made a killing [...]

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Looking back on market past / Delaplane, Kristin [402] [ECHOS-1998-402]
Q: Did they age meat in the early 1900s? A: Oh no. Never knew about aging. Never had the good facilities to age meat. They would sell meat by the pound in those days [...]

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