Cave Johnson Couts Ysidora's brother-in-law, Don Abel Stearns, gave her the Guajome land grant surrounding Mission San Luis Rey. Couts resigned his commission with the Army and built a ranch on land that “had neither …
August 28, 2021
Cave Couts, “a strong-willed individual" with a tendency to “shoot first and examine the target afterwards."
Posted August 20, 1998
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Cave Couts, Old Town loveletters, San Diego's first school
Cave Johnson Couts' wedding fiesta in Old Town lasted a week, his marriage a lifetime
“The emigrants! Oh! Still they come. I never was in my life so annoyed. begging for sugar, flour, and god only knows how they have the face to push such entreaties as they do...."
August 20, 1998