Author: DOBYNS, HENRY F. (COMPLILED BY) (FROM THE JOURNAL OF CAVE JOHNSON COUTS)
Title: Hepah, California! the Journal of Cave Johnson Couts from Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to Los Angeles, California During the Years 1848-1849
Description: Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1961. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This edition is limited to 750 unnumbered copies. This book is in Very Good condition. The book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There are small spots of glue residue on the front and rear pastedown pages. There is a previous owner's bookplate (Ralph M. Stall) on the front pastedown page. This book is illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations. "Cave Johnson Couts was born near Springfield, Tennessee, November 11, 1821. His uncle, Cave Johnson, was [Postmaster General]* under President Polk, and had him appointed to West Point, where he graduated in 1843. He served on the frontier until after the Mexican War, and was then at Los Angeles, San Luis Rey, and San Diego from 1848 to 1851. In 1849 he conducted the Whipple expedition to the Colorado River. On April 5, 1851, he married Ysidora Bandini, daughter of Juan Bandini, of San Diego. In October of the same year he resigned from the army and was soon after appointed colonel and aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor Bigler. In the Garra insurrection he served as adjutant, and at the court martial was judge-advocate. He was a member of the first grand jury September, 1850, and county judge in 1854. In 1853 he removed to a tract known as the Guajome grant, a wedding gift to his wife from her brother-in-law, Abel Stearns. Having been appointed sub-agent for the San Luis Rey Indians, Colonel Couts was able to secure all the cheap labor needed for the improvement of his property. His business affairs were managed with skill and military precision, and he became one of the wealthiest men in Southern California. " (from San Diego History Center). Very Good .
Keywords: Californiana Henry F. Dobyns Cave Johnson Couts Western Americana Mexico San Diego, CA Los Angeles, CA Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society
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Title: Hepah, California! the Journal of Cave Johnson Couts from Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to Los Angeles, California During the Years 1848-1849
Description: Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1961. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This edition is limited to 750 unnumbered copies. This book is in Very Good condition. The book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There are small spots of glue residue on the front and rear pastedown pages. There is a previous owner's bookplate (Ralph M. Stall) on the front pastedown page. This book is illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations. "Cave Johnson Couts was born near Springfield, Tennessee, November 11, 1821. His uncle, Cave Johnson, was [Postmaster General]* under President Polk, and had him appointed to West Point, where he graduated in 1843. He served on the frontier until after the Mexican War, and was then at Los Angeles, San Luis Rey, and San Diego from 1848 to 1851. In 1849 he conducted the Whipple expedition to the Colorado River. On April 5, 1851, he married Ysidora Bandini, daughter of Juan Bandini, of San Diego. In October of the same year he resigned from the army and was soon after appointed colonel and aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor Bigler. In the Garra insurrection he served as adjutant, and at the court martial was judge-advocate. He was a member of the first grand jury September, 1850, and county judge in 1854. In 1853 he removed to a tract known as the Guajome grant, a wedding gift to his wife from her brother-in-law, Abel Stearns. Having been appointed sub-agent for the San Luis Rey Indians, Colonel Couts was able to secure all the cheap labor needed for the improvement of his property. His business affairs were managed with skill and military precision, and he became one of the wealthiest men in Southern California. " (from San Diego History Center). Very Good .
Keywords: Californiana Henry F. Dobyns Cave Johnson Couts Western Americana Mexico San Diego, CA Los Angeles, CA Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society
Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45179
- Book number: 45179
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