Newspaper articles - California: early stock raising, Ka weah colony, early dairying.

Abstract

"Tulare lake was the scene of early stock raising in Tulare county. The earliest stock men to arrive in the county went to that area. These included the Murphy brothers and the Rhodes brothers of Santa Clara valley. Both of these families arrived in California before gold was discovered and had been in the San Joaquin valley before the Mexican War. So had Juan Temple of Los Angles and his brother, Francisco P. F. Temple. These men were the first to put domesticated animals on the wild grasses around Tulare lake."