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Ohio-born Jacob Leese, aged 21, was a trapper in Arkansas and soon afterwards a trader in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He first came to Mexican-owned California in 1833 to transport mules between New Mexico (also a Mexican province) and Southern
The son of a Protestant minister, Weber was born in Germany in 1814, and educated by private tutors. In 1836 he journeyed to America to see an uncle who had immigrated to Illinois. Apparently he never made this visit, occupied instead by
William Moon’s name is still associated with the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846, although there is no record that he took part in the action. However, as an American settler living near Tehama in Mexican California, he doubtless participated in
Handsome, intelligent and capable, John Charles Fremont acquired valuable navigational and mapping skills while still in his twenties, as part of the Army Topographical Corps exploration of the immense, northern sections of the
Pierson B. Reading, at one time a fur trapper in Captain John Sutter’s employ, was well-known and respected in early California. He was the first known permanent settler in Shasta County in 1847, where he established a ranch on a 26,632
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