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History

of

Santa Barbara County,

California

WITH

ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS

PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS

Oakland, Cal.

Thompson & West

1883

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. - EARLY HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA

CHAPTER II. - THE NATIVE RACES.

CHAPTER III. - PERMANENT OCCUPATION OF CALIFORNIA

CHAPTER IV. - THE MISSIONS OF ST. FRANCIS.

CHAPTER V. - PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURE.

CHAPTER VI. - SPANISH MISSIONS.

CHAPTER VII. - SECULARIZATION OF THE MISSIONS.

CHAPTER VIII. - UNDER THE COLONIAL SYSTEM.

CHAPTER IX. -SHEPHERD KINGS.

CHAPTER X. - DAYS OF THE SHEPHERD KINGS.

CHAPTER XI. - EMPLOYMENTS OF THE PEOPLE.

CHAPTER XII. - SANTA BARBARA AS SEEN BY DANA.

CHAPTER XIII. - SANTA BARBARA AS SEEN BY DANA

CHAPTER XIV. - THE AMERICAN CONQUEST.

CHAPTER XV. - THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD.

CHAPTER XVI. - NEW ALLEGIANCE.

CHAPTER XVII. - THE LOST WOMAN.

CHAPTER XVIII. - OPERATIONS OF THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER XIX. - EXCITING EVENTS.

CHAPTER XX. - SANTA BARBARA WITHOUT A PAPER.

CHAPTER XXI. - STATISTICS OF SANTA BARBARA.

CHAPTER XXII. - AMERICAN OCCUPATION.

CHAPTER XXIII. - SANTA BARBARA RAILROADS.

CHAPTER XXIV. - GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

CHAPTER XXV. - HIG.H TIDE OF PROSPERITY.

CHAPTER XXVI. - QUICKSILVER MINES.

CHAPTER XXVII. - SPANISH GRANTS

CHAPTER XXVIII. - THE EBB TIDE OF PROSPERITY.

CHAPTER XXIX. - RECENT EVENTS.

CHAPTER XXX. - THE ISLANDS, CHANNEL, AND HARBOR

CHAPTER XXXI. - SUBURBS OF SANTA BARBARA

CHAPTER XXXII. - WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY.

CHAPTER XXXIII. - WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY.

CHAPTER XXXIV. - WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY.

CHAPTER XXXV. - MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.

Ventura County

CHAPTER XXXVI. - CONDITION AND COUNTY ORGANIZATION.

CHAPTER XXXVII. - INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS.

CHAPTER XXXVIII. - POLITICS AND PROGRESS.

CHAPTER XXXIX. - EASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY.

CHAPTER XL. - CENTRAL PORTION.

CHAPTER XLI. - THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY

CHAPTER XLII. - MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

CHAPTER XLIII. - THE MURDER OF T. WALLACE MORE.

CHAPTER XLIV. - THE BAR.

CHAPTER XLV. - CONCLUDING SUBJECTS.

Biographical and Descriptive Sketches.

Adam, Andonaegui, Ayers, Ballard, Baker, Bard, Baron, Barrows, Bell, Benchley, Blanchard, Blosser, Bradley, Braun, Brinkerhoff, Brooks, Broome, Bryant, Buell, Callis, Camarillo, Careaga, Chaffee, Clark, Clarke, Connor, Cook, Cooper, Crosby, Cummings, Day, Del Valle, Den, Dennison, Dimmick, Dinwiddle, Dunbar, Eastin, Fagan, Faulkner, Fenlon, Fernald, Fisher, Fleisher, Foxen, Garretson, Gilbert, Glaneey, Goodwin, Guerra, Haines, Hart, Hatch, Hawkins, Heath, Hill, Hobart, Hobson, Hollister, Hudson, Hughes, Huse, Jones, Kimber, Kriedel, Leslie, Lewis, Long, Maguire, McCaffrey, McCutchan, McElbaney, McKee, McKenna, Miller, Mills, Montgomery, More, Moore, Morris, Nelots, Palin, Patterson, Pezzoni, Prell, Rice, Ristolen, Roberts, Rotsler, Salsbury,   Saxby, Scarlett, Sewell, Sexton, Sherman, Smith, Snyder, Stearns, Stone, Stowell, Taylor, Tebbetts, Thompson, Thornburgh, Todd, Tognazzini, Trott, Tyler, Walton, Warring, Wason, Welch, Wells, Wickenden, Wilson, Wood, Yudart,