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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Watson Land Company, Published 1987. Hardcover, xii, 520 pp.; 26 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, portraits, and maps. In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Brown cloth boards, gilt spine lettering and a gilt longhorn device, mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A privately published history of the Watson and Dominguez families and their California holdings, tracing James Alexander Watson from Texas lawman and Gold Rush lawyer to Los Angeles collector of customs and Civil War assemblyman, his marriage into the Dominguez family of Rancho San Pedro, and the descendants who built the Spanish land grant into the modern Watson Land Company and its industrial parks. A standard reference for the history of Rancho San Pedro, Wilmington, and the south Los Angeles basin, drawn from family and company records. Contents: The Land and the Dominguez Heritage; James Alexander Watson: The Molding of a Man; Texas Lawman and the Lure of California; A Lawyer in the Gold Fields: Building a Political Base; A Tale of Two Cities: Los Angeles and San Francisco; A Fusion of Cultures: The Watson-Dominguez Union; Collector of Customs; Copperhead Assemblyman in Civil War California; Triumph and Tragedy; The Watson Sons: Growing Up in Los Angeles; The Torch Is Passed; Of Land and the Law: The Transitional Years; The Estate Companies: Generating Wealth; Of Death and Taxes: The O'Melveny Years; The Watsons: Family and Company to Mid-Century; Creating Communities: The Industrial Park; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. California HIstory focusing on James A. Watson and Maria Dominques, the Dominguez Land grant and california development. 520 pages with index, Maps, index and photo sections.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. [xiv], 520p. Signed by Grenier on half title page. Story of one of the Dominguez family of Rancho San Pedro. (10"x6-1/2").

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., xv +473 pp., frontis., plates, index, dj, vg+. Too late for Adams Herd, a noted Calif. ranch.