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Tangled vines by frances dinkelspiel6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() But he found another use: grapes.įrances Dinkelspiel researched the story for her new book, “Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California.” Much of the narrative is about a 2005 fire in Vallejo that destroyed 4.5 million bottles of wine, set by a disgruntled oenophile. Tapia said he needed the land for his own cattle. ![]() To establish the boundaries, Tapia sketched in the mountains, some hills and creeks and indicated, in Spanish, “the road that goes to San Bernardino.” (If it was anything like today, I’m guessing it was congested and the horsemen were all idiots.) There wasn’t anything here other than cattle, grasses, trees and the Kukamongo - note spelling - tribe. ![]() In 1839, before statehood, a wealthy Los Angeles merchant named Tiburcio Tapia acquired Rancho Cucamonga from the Mexican governor of Alta California, after presenting a hand-drawn map of its 13,000 acres. ![]()
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