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Tres Hermanos Ranch Tour Postview: The Puente Oil Company and its Chino Connection, 1881-1896

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  • Posted on February 1, 2025September 27, 2025
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“A Lurid Blaze Lighting Up the Sky”: The Greater Los Angeles Wildfires of 1878, Part One

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  • Posted on January 15, 2025
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Tres Hermanos Ranch Tour Postview: William Benjamin Scott, 1868-1920

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  • Posted on June 15, 2024June 17, 2024
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“In Provision for the Lawful Heirs”: The Lawsuit of Akley vs. Bassett for the Joseph M. Workman Ranch, Rancho La Puente, 1918-1924, Part Five

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  • Posted on May 25, 2024May 26, 2024
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“In Provision for the Lawful Heirs”: The Lawsuit of Akley vs. Bassett for the Joseph M. Workman Ranch, Rancho La Puente, 1918-1924, Part Four

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  • Posted on May 24, 2024May 25, 2024
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Recap of the First-Ever Tres Hermanos Ranch Tours and Some of its Early History from 1914-1928

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  • Posted on September 23, 2023October 5, 2023
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Drilling for Black Gold with “The Oil Industry” Magazine, 15 April 1909

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  • Posted on April 15, 2020December 29, 2020
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Sharing History with Sierra Vista Middle School, La Puente

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  • Posted on November 19, 2019January 6, 2021
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  • Places & Communities

Sharing The History of Tres Hermanos Ranch Tonight in Mud Springs (San Dimas)

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  • Posted on June 5, 2019January 7, 2021
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  • Oil Industry

All Over The Map: A Map of the Whittier-Olinda Oil Field, June 1912

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  • Posted on June 4, 2019January 7, 2021
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  • Temples of Trade Through the Viewfinder: A Photo of the Charles C. Chapman (Los Angeles Investment Company) Building, Broadway and 8th, Los Angeles, ca. 1924, Part One
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