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For information on the Southern Overland Trail Historical Association, which deals with the historical research of the Southern Immigrant Trail (also known as the Gila Trail, Kearny Trail, and Butterfield Stage Trail), contact Stephen Clugston, (909) 787-5395, or email srclug@pop.ucr.edu. The SOTHA organizes and sponsors living history reenactments at Missions San Juan Capistrano and San Luis Rey and other historic sites such as the Yorba-Slaughter Adobe in Chino and focusses usually on the 1830-1852 periods.

California Historical Landmarks in San Diego County

Emory’s Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Levenworth, in Missoury, to San Diego, in California, published 1848. This copy, from the Stanford University Library, was scanned by Google.

The first book written in detail about the Battle of San Pasqual in over fifty years. Order your copy today. Features all the information contained on this website plus much more. Complete with 83 photographs and illustrations telling the dramatic story of the Battle and its Battlefield. 

“For those with a passion for minute-by-minute accuracy on the history of a military battle; its place, time, strategy, errors, casualties, and precise location of events … most certainly, this has been accomplished by the San Pasqual Battlefield Site Location Project. With their years of intense research, field surveys, and their sharing with both private and governmental organizations, they have in effect, rewritten the Battle of San Pasqual as we have known it.”

Historian – Tom Cook
Former President of the San Pasqual Battlefield Volunteer Association