Rancho La Brea And Major Henry Hancock

The Romance of the Ranchos. Ranchel of Brea 1769. Portalau Expedition binds great tar pits. Ranchel of Brea 1866. Surveyor wins by it for Rancho and Supreme Court. Ranchel of Brea 19 II. Ancient relics found in the Brea Pit.

The title, insurance and trust company of Los Angles presents the Romance of the Ranchos. shows, a weekly dramatization of the historic events which make our Southern California so colorful and romantic. Each week our wandering vicarrel Frank Graham returns to tell a true story of the days of the dawns.

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And here to tell us the story is our wandering Viqueiro Frank Graham. Weínas no tes señores y señores. Our story tonight deals with perhaps one of the most interesting of all the Southern California ranchers, the Rancho La Brea.

It is interesting not only for the fascinating things revealed there, but for the family who have been most closely identified with it, the Hancock family. This is a story steeped in the romance of the ranchers.

Our story tonight is unusual, for it has its beginnings in the dim forests of another age, long before the first recorded history of our world. But the first white men to see the Rant-Felabrein knew nothing of that beginning.