William Wolfskill, the Pioneer Mountain Man and Trapper
"In 1830, Wolfskill fitted out a company in New Mexico to trap in the great valleys of California." -H. H. Bancroft, 1885
"In 1824, Wolfskill and others fitted out a trapping party at Taos to trap on the San Juan and other tributaries of the Colorado or Rio Grande of the West." -Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1923
Mountain man trapper William Wolfskill moved to New Mexico in 1821, while the region was a province of Mexico called Santa Fe de Nuevo México. He spent ten years fur trapping in the New Mexico area, as the fur trade was highly lucrative.
Wolfskill left Taos, New Mexico, in September 1830 with a party of mountain men that included George C. Yount. When they arrived in Southern California in early 1831 (using the trail Smith had mapped across the Mojave desert), Wolfskill and Yount went to the coast to hunt sea otter. Wolfskill eventually returned to Southern California while Yount decided to go north, and the two parted company. Yount settled in the Napa Valley.
By 1866, Wolfskill was producing 50,000 gallons of wine a year. He developed the Valencia orange, which became the most popular juice orange in the United States and was widely cultivated in southern California.
In 1902, historian Henry Dwight Barrows published a 12-page article title "William Wolfskill, the Pioneer," which appeared in a historical society publication. It is this article that has been republished here for the convenience of the author.
Republished from:
Annual Publication of
the Historical Society of
Southern California and of
the Pioneers of Los Angeles,
Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 287-94, 1902
About the author:
Henry Dwight Barrows (1825–1914) was an American teacher, businessman, farmer, goldminer, reporter, United States Marshal, Los Angeles County School Superintendent, manufacturer, writer, and a founder and president of the Historical Society of Southern California.
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"In 1824, Wolfskill and others fitted out a trapping party at Taos to trap on the San Juan and other tributaries of the Colorado or Rio Grande of the West." -Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1923
Mountain man trapper William Wolfskill moved to New Mexico in 1821, while the region was a province of Mexico called Santa Fe de Nuevo México. He spent ten years fur trapping in the New Mexico area, as the fur trade was highly lucrative.
Wolfskill left Taos, New Mexico, in September 1830 with a party of mountain men that included George C. Yount. When they arrived in Southern California in early 1831 (using the trail Smith had mapped across the Mojave desert), Wolfskill and Yount went to the coast to hunt sea otter. Wolfskill eventually returned to Southern California while Yount decided to go north, and the two parted company. Yount settled in the Napa Valley.
By 1866, Wolfskill was producing 50,000 gallons of wine a year. He developed the Valencia orange, which became the most popular juice orange in the United States and was widely cultivated in southern California.
In 1902, historian Henry Dwight Barrows published a 12-page article title "William Wolfskill, the Pioneer," which appeared in a historical society publication. It is this article that has been republished here for the convenience of the author.
Republished from:
Annual Publication of
the Historical Society of
Southern California and of
the Pioneers of Los Angeles,
Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 287-94, 1902
About the author:
Henry Dwight Barrows (1825–1914) was an American teacher, businessman, farmer, goldminer, reporter, United States Marshal, Los Angeles County School Superintendent, manufacturer, writer, and a founder and president of the Historical Society of Southern California.
William Wolfskill, the Pioneer Mountain Man and Trapper
"In 1830, Wolfskill fitted out a company in New Mexico to trap in the great valleys of California." -H. H. Bancroft, 1885
"In 1824, Wolfskill and others fitted out a trapping party at Taos to trap on the San Juan and other tributaries of the Colorado or Rio Grande of the West." -Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1923
Mountain man trapper William Wolfskill moved to New Mexico in 1821, while the region was a province of Mexico called Santa Fe de Nuevo México. He spent ten years fur trapping in the New Mexico area, as the fur trade was highly lucrative.
Wolfskill left Taos, New Mexico, in September 1830 with a party of mountain men that included George C. Yount. When they arrived in Southern California in early 1831 (using the trail Smith had mapped across the Mojave desert), Wolfskill and Yount went to the coast to hunt sea otter. Wolfskill eventually returned to Southern California while Yount decided to go north, and the two parted company. Yount settled in the Napa Valley.
By 1866, Wolfskill was producing 50,000 gallons of wine a year. He developed the Valencia orange, which became the most popular juice orange in the United States and was widely cultivated in southern California.
In 1902, historian Henry Dwight Barrows published a 12-page article title "William Wolfskill, the Pioneer," which appeared in a historical society publication. It is this article that has been republished here for the convenience of the author.
Republished from:
Annual Publication of
the Historical Society of
Southern California and of
the Pioneers of Los Angeles,
Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 287-94, 1902
About the author:
Henry Dwight Barrows (1825–1914) was an American teacher, businessman, farmer, goldminer, reporter, United States Marshal, Los Angeles County School Superintendent, manufacturer, writer, and a founder and president of the Historical Society of Southern California.
"In 1824, Wolfskill and others fitted out a trapping party at Taos to trap on the San Juan and other tributaries of the Colorado or Rio Grande of the West." -Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1923
Mountain man trapper William Wolfskill moved to New Mexico in 1821, while the region was a province of Mexico called Santa Fe de Nuevo México. He spent ten years fur trapping in the New Mexico area, as the fur trade was highly lucrative.
Wolfskill left Taos, New Mexico, in September 1830 with a party of mountain men that included George C. Yount. When they arrived in Southern California in early 1831 (using the trail Smith had mapped across the Mojave desert), Wolfskill and Yount went to the coast to hunt sea otter. Wolfskill eventually returned to Southern California while Yount decided to go north, and the two parted company. Yount settled in the Napa Valley.
By 1866, Wolfskill was producing 50,000 gallons of wine a year. He developed the Valencia orange, which became the most popular juice orange in the United States and was widely cultivated in southern California.
In 1902, historian Henry Dwight Barrows published a 12-page article title "William Wolfskill, the Pioneer," which appeared in a historical society publication. It is this article that has been republished here for the convenience of the author.
Republished from:
Annual Publication of
the Historical Society of
Southern California and of
the Pioneers of Los Angeles,
Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 287-94, 1902
About the author:
Henry Dwight Barrows (1825–1914) was an American teacher, businessman, farmer, goldminer, reporter, United States Marshal, Los Angeles County School Superintendent, manufacturer, writer, and a founder and president of the Historical Society of Southern California.
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