San Joaquin County CA Archives History - Books .....Indian Everywhere Found 1923
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Book Title: History Of San Joaquin County, California

HAVING laid a broad foundation for the history of the county, who were the 
people placed here to enjoy its luxuriant and fertile soil, its delightful 
climate and the beautiful scenery of mountain, hill and valley? Indians, just 
Indians, a race of people not much higher in intellect than the animals that 
roamed the plains. Strange that so much beauty and value of soil should be 
wasted for five hundred or more years, for the Indians have lived here man 
knows not how long. We know only this, that Christopher Columbus found Indians, 
when in 1492 he landed at Cuba. It was to him a new race of people. Believing 
that he had landed at India, he named them Indians. Hernando Cortez, sailing to 
Mexico, there found the same race, Indians. His sol¬diers married the Indian 
women, from whence sprang the Mexican race. We will find many of them in 
Stockton. In 1542 Cabrillo, in sail¬ing along the California coast, found 
Indians at every point of landing. When Sir Francis Drake landed in the bay 
that bears his name, the Indians crowded around him in great num¬bers. The 
Franciscan fathers traveling up the coast found Indians in every valley, and 
they assisted the padres in building their missions. Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga, 
in 1812, crossing the mountains into the San Joaquin Valley, found hundreds of 
Indians in the Valley of the Tulare. So it seems upon this entire continent of 
North America the Indians were the land¬owners and the sons of Nature.

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HISTORY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 
By George H. Tinkham 

Chapter II The First Landowners

HISTORIC RECORD CO
LOS ANGELES, CA
1923



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