More than 220 livestock brands are explored for the first time in a fascinating new history book, Brands of Calaveras County, California 1881-1913.  Far more than a mere compilation, the 382-page book chronicles the families behind the brands--their heritage and emigration, births and deaths, marriages and children, success and failure--and boasts more than 125 vintage photographs.   

Brands of Calaveras County, California 1881-1913 features a who’s who of local history, including pioneer cattlewoman Mrs. Ethel Adams, philanthropist Desire Fricot, and cattleman Mills Mitchell.  Other well-known families represented, some of whom are still in Calaveras, are Airola, Dell’Orto, Joses, Haupt, Costa, Tryon, Lombardi, Hauselt, Ponte, Huberty, Darby, Zwinge, Cook, Gillam, Fischer, Hatler, Domenghini, Hunt, and Snyder.

Brands of Calaveras County, California 1881-1913 follows last year’s release of the enormously successful Brands of Calaveras County, California 1854-1880.  Together, the books span nearly 500 of the earliest brands recorded in one of California’s original counties.

Issued by Calaveras History Publishing, a division of the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History, Inc., both books were authored by historian Salvatore John Manna and Calaveras County Archivist Shannon Dixon Van Zant.  Copies are available for purchase through westcalaverashistory.org and select local and online retailers.  For more information, contact the SPWCH at [email protected].

Brand Names

Adams  Agostini  Airola  Albert  Allen  Anderson  Armstrong   Baker  Battenfeld  Bayles  Beal  Beck  Beckwith  Beckworth  Beecher  Beffa  Bertatta  Bigelow  Blais  Board  Bosse  Boyer  Bratos  Brown  Bruce  Burgess  Butler  Butterfield  Cademartori   Canedo  Carter  Cartwright  Casares  Cavanna  Cochran  Collins  Congdon  Cook  Cordova  Cortes  Courtmarsh  Cosgrove  Costa  Craven  Cutler  Cutter   Dahl  Darby  Daveggio  Defoor  Dell'Orto  DeMartini   Dixon  Domenghini  Donnallan  Dorroh  Eddlemon   Elliott   Enoch  Fischer  Flamm  Flower  Foster  Fox  Franklin  Freccero  Fricot  Fritz  Fuchs  Gaetand  Gambetta  Garnett  Gazzolo  Giannini  Giles  Gillam  Gnecco  Gobbi  Goode  Grijalva  Guttinger   Harrington  Hatler  Haupt  Hauselt  Hawver  Hayes  Haynes  Hazzard  Hepburn  Holland  Huberty  Hunt  Jack  Jackson  Jefcoat  Jessen  Joses  Joy  Krentz  Ladd  Lagomarsino  Laidet  Land  Leclerq  Lertora  Lewis  Lillie  Lombardi  Lopez  Lowenthal  Luddy  Ludwig  Lyons Madonna  Malaspina  Markwood  Marshall  Massoni  Mathews  McCoy  McKisson McQuade Mester  Mikkelsen  Mitchell  Moran  Morris  Murphy  Nandino  Navas  Noce  O'Hara  Orga  Parks  Pecchenino  Pedroli  Pini  Ponte  Pope  Porteous   Prakel  Quintal  Roberts  Rocchi  Rojas   Ross  Rowlee  Rudorff  Salter  Sanford  Sauve  Schaad  Schwoerer  Sciaccaluga  Seeman  Shuster  Siegel  Silva  Sloan  Smith  Snyder  Solinsky  Sommerville Stegman  Stephens  Stewart  Suniga  Tamayo  Tarpey  Thomson  Tone  Tryon  Turner  Van Senden  Walker  Walter  Ward  Washburn  Wear  Weisbach  Wells  Westfall  Whiteman  Wiggin  Willis  Wilson  Zwinge