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The Castaic Range War, also known as the Jenkins-Chormicle Affair, was a range war that happened in Castaic, California from 1890 to 1916, between ranchers and farmers William Willoby Jenkins and William C. Chormicle who both staked claims on a piece of land in the territory. The feud started when Chormicle purchased 1,600 acres of the same ...
Rosa Pauline Cordova testified on behalf of William Louis Rose (aka "Billy Rose") during his trial for the non-fatal shooting of William Willoby ("Wirt") Jenkins in a shoot out in Castaic Canyon on 8 March 1913 [16] during the long-running Castaic Range War (1890 to 1916).
A range war, also known as range conflict or cattle war, is a type of usually violent conflict, most commonly in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the American West. The subject of these conflicts was control of " open range ", or range land freely used for cattle grazing, or as sheep pasture , which gave these conflicts its name.
Tens of thousands of motorists pass through Castaic daily as they drive to or from Los Angeles on Interstate 5 (the Golden State Freeway). Castaic Lake is part of the California Water Project and is the site of a hydro-electric power plant. Castaic is 38 miles (61 km) northwest of Los Angeles Union Station and northwest of the city of Santa ...
Newhall Land headquarters in Valencia, May 2010 Portrait of Henry Newhall by Ruth Newhall. The Newhall Land and Farming Company is a land management company based in Valencia which is part of Santa Clarita, United States.
Galloway Cattle Society of Great Britain and Ireland [1] Devon: Davy's Devon Herd Book: Devon Cattle Breeders' Society [1] Dexter: Dexter Herd Book: Dexter Cattle Society [1] Guernsey: English Guernsey Herd Book: English Guernsey Cattle Society [1] Guernsey: Herd Book of the Bailiwick of Guernsey (Guernsey Branch) Royal Guernsey Agricultural ...
In exchange for hides and tallow from cattle owned by California ranchers, [1] sailors from around the globe, often representing corporations, swapped finished goods of all kinds. The trade was the essential constituent of the region’s economy at the time, and encompassed cities extending from Canton to Lima to Boston , and involved many ...
Rancho Castac or Rancho Castec was a 22,178-acre (89.75 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Kern and Los Angeles counties, California, made by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Jose Maria Covarrubias in 1843. [1]