Rancho La Puente

The Romance of the Ranchos New Mexico 1841 workmen Roland partie start for California Los Angles 1846 Americans live saved Barry vole Los Angles 1876 panic causes Southland banks The title insurance and trust company of Los Angles presents the romance of the ranchos a weekly dramatization of the colorful events which make up the history of our southern California.

Each week our wandering Vocato Frank Graham tells another true story of famous people in happenings rich and romantic and adventurous. Now a word from the title insurance and trust company about a kind of insurance that takes precedence over all others today.

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Do it now, do it regularly, do it often. And now here to tell us the story is our wandering volcano, Frank Graham.

We're not no chests in your assi, senoris. Our story tonight concerns two of the Southlands early pioneers, partners in ownership of a vast tract of land in the fertile San Gabriel Valley, the great Vrancho La Puente of William Workman and John Rowland.

Here is a story rich in the romance of the ranchos. Our story starts about the year 1841, when two business partners and the little new Mexican town of Taos near Santa Fe discussed an important matter.