The Island of Santa Catalina and the Channel Islands

The Romance of the Ranchos. Santa Cruz Island 1542. Discover of California, buried on Lonely Island. Santa Catalina Island 1805. Smugglers anchor in harbor of Avalon. San Nicolas Island 1870. Find Woman Moss 20 years on Lonely Island.

The title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles presents the romance of the ranchos, a weekly dramatization of the colorful history which is the heritage of our southern California. Each week our wandering Vocaro Frank Graham returns to tell a true story of romance and adventure in the days of the dawns. It's business like to protect your interest in land with a policy of title insurance.

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Buenos noches señoras y señoras. Our story tonight is concerned with one of the great forces which helped to bring Americans to California, the sea-author trade, and with the principal locations of that industry, in the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. And Since it is closest to us here, our story will have for its principle setting the lovely

island paradise of Santa Catalima. It's a story rich in the romance of the ranches. Long before the white man braved the hardships of a land exploration north from Mexico, the hardy seaman of Spanish frigates put forth into uncharted waters and won the honor of exploring the coast which was to become our California.