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Rancho El Sópori, Part 3

by Mary Kasulaitis Captain Juan de Anza, and his father before him, ran cattle on the Sópori and although he didn’t live there, he maintained a mayordomo and vaqueros there. Perhaps he was issued a government land grant, which has not remained. When he…

Posted on February 7, 2021 by southernarizonaconnection

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Rancho El Sópori, Part 2

by Mary Kasulaitis Story continued from last month’s Connection: When the Jesuits established themselves at Guevavi Mission in the 1730s they went forth to the rancherias where native people were living. Preaching and teaching, they baptized and married the local folk and tried to…

Posted on January 2, 2021 by southernarizonaconnection

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Rancho El Sópori, Part 1

by Mary Kasulaitis Down on the Sópori. Four words that somehow convey the size and expectations one have regarding what is today one of the largest and arguably the oldest cattle ranch in the Santa Cruz Valley. It begins in the west, along the…

Posted on December 5, 2020 by southernarizonaconnection

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