A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . Texas, and all of his boyhood and earlymanhood were associated with scenes and acti-vities in the latter state. The time and placewere not especially favorable for gaining morethan the rudiments of an education, but suchas were afforded were made the most of andfurnished the foundation for the broad know-ledge of men and afifairs which Mr. Sprouse en-joys today. Then as now, Texas was parti-cularly well suited to the cattle business, broad
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . Texas, and all of his boyhood and earlymanhood were associated with scenes and acti-vities in the latter state. The time and placewere not especially favorable for gaining morethan the rudiments of an education, but suchas were afforded were made the most of andfurnished the foundation for the broad know-ledge of men and afifairs which Mr. Sprouse en-joys today. Then as now, Texas was parti-cularly well suited to the cattle business, broad,unlimited fields and an abundance of lusciousgrass being the chief requirements, and for anumber of years Mr. Sprouse was very success-ful as a stock-raiser. In addition to carryingon his extensive ranch he also did considerableteaming. When about twenty-six years old, June14, 1875, he left the Lone Star state with Califor-nia as his destination, the slow but sturdy horseteams with which he made the trip overlandreaching Los Angeles January 17, 1876, aftera journey of seven months and fifteen days. Hisfirst settlement in the state was at Downey, Los. ^#
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