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Rancho La Liebre was a Mexican land grant in present day Kern County, California and Los Angeles County, given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to José María Flores.〔Ogden Hoffman, 1862, ''Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California'', Numa Hubert, San Francisco〕 Liebre means "Hare" in Spanish and the rancho was named as such because of the abundance of jack rabbits in the area. The rancho was mostly in the mountainous terrain of the Tehachapi Mountains and Sierra Pelona Mountains, in the northwest part of Los Angeles County, west of the Antelope Valley and Mojave Desert. The rancho is now a part of the Tejon Ranch. ==History== Flores was the commander and chief of the Mexican forces in California during the Mexican-American War. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. Flores nearly lost his entitlement to the rancho when the Public Land Commission declared the grant to be fraudulently obtained. The Land Commission contended that Pico back dated many of the land grants he issued and that Rancho La Liebre was granted while California was under American control and no longer a part of Mexico.〔(United States. District Court (California : Southern District) Land Case 170 SD )〕 However, Flores won an appeal and kept the title. The grant was patented to Jose Maria Flores in 1875.〔( Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 )〕 In 1855 Edward Beale purchased Rancho La Liebre from Flores. It was the first of the four Mexican Land Grants (Rancho Los Alamos y Agua Caliente, Rancho El Tejon, and Rancho Castac) that Beale would acquire to create the present Tejon Ranch. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rancho La Liebre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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