biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1798–1866)
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| biography:
| Trapper and California pioneer, born near Richmond, Kentucky, USA. He trapped along the Rio Grande and became a Mexican citizen (1830). He pioneered the W Spanish trail from Taos to California (1830–1) and settled in Los Angeles where he planted the first private orange grove in that area, and was the first person there to ship oranges commercially. |
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