NEW BOOK CELEBRATES CALIFORNIA RANCH LIFE BY DOCUMENTING THE LIVESTOCK BRANDS OF CALAVERAS COUNTY
Sal Manna Mon, 02/06/2017 - 11:31
BURSON, CA – February 6, 2017 – For those fascinated by the history of early California, brands of the Old West, and/or ranching in America, the newly published Brands of Calaveras County, California 1854-1880 offers a rare glimpse into the past through the brands associated with one county’s ranchers. Believed to be the only book of its kind ever published, Brands of Calaveras County, California 1854-1880 explores the earliest brands recorded in one of California’s original counties, beginning just after the Gold Rush. Yet what emerges from its 245 brand filings and 376 pages is not just a story of livestock brands but also a story of families--of heritage and emigration, births and deaths, marriages and children, success and failure.
The premiere release from Calaveras History Publishing, a division of the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History, Inc., a nonprofit charitable trust, Brands of Calaveras County, California 1854-1880 was authored by historian and journalist Salvatore John Manna and Calaveras County Archivist Shannon Dixon Van Zant.
A book signing will take place from noon-2 p.m. on Saturday, March 11th, at Common Grounds, 1900 Vista del Lago in Valley Springs. In addition, copies are available for purchase through westcalaverashistory.org, Amazon.com, and select retailers. For more information, please contact the SPWCH at [email protected].
Brand Names
Aldrich Alexander Allen Angier Arbeleche Armstrong Austin Bacigalupi Balensuela Bates Bavastrello Behrendt Bence Bennett Bernardi Bernasconi Bisencio Black Blackburn Blair Boforgues Boles Bradley Brawley Brower Brown Brunner Bund Burgess Burns Campbell Carley Carpenter Casenave Cavagnaro Caven Champion Chase Chicard Chinn Cobb Collier Comitins Coogan Cooper Cosgrave Coulter Coyne Crins Cuneo Darden Davey Davis Deeble Delano DeLong Dieren Donovan Drew Drivis Duffy Eastwood Engel Etcheverry Evans Fenton Ferguson Figaro Filippini Fischer Fisher Foster Frazier Frisbie Gable Gall Gallagher Gann Garcelon Gardella Garry Gatewood Gibbons Gillen Glass Gomes Goyenda Goyoneche Gray Grenoli Grillo Griswold Grossman Hardin Hardy Harper Harris Herald Hettick Heuston Hill Hizer Holmes Hood Horan Huberty Hunter Indart Irvine Isbell Janes Jarvis Jones Juri Kallenbach Kearns Kuhn Lanaye Lanig Leclert Lee Lewis Lindsay, J. Lindsay, T. Look Lottman Love Malaspina Manaudas Marshall Martinas Massoni Matheoud Mathews Matson McCormick McDonald, R. McDonald, J. McFadden McGovern McGowan McNicholas McNoble Medbury Meinecke Meyer Miller Moffit Monico Mooney Moore, E. Moore, P. Moya Mudgett Murdock Nantz Nelson Niehaus Nichols Nousiton Nuñes Ochoa Ochua Oliphant Ollrich Osborn Paentopollos Palafos Pardies Parnell Peirano Perryman Pitt Pool Prindle Proctor Quinn Raggio Rathgeb Ratz Reinking Renaturas Reynolds Rivara Robedee Rooney Rosenberg Rosling Ross Russell Salcido Sanborn Saunders Schacten Schanen Schoonover Schuckle Scieffard Searing Seeman Selkirk Shafer Shriver Sillas Silva Slandman Sletway Sloan Smith, A. Smith, C. Spellner Sproul Stackpole Stangood Steel Stenzig Stevenot Stoddard Sturla Subiati Swiss Ranch Sylvester Tarbat Tienne Tiret Tormey Torrey Totten Tower Tracy Tuchsen Tyson Valle Walsh Wangenheim Ward Waterman Webb Wells Werle Wheat Wherity White Whitman Willits Wilson, C. Wilson, T. Worth Yarbrough Young Yturaldo Zubista Zugar