Combined American forces under Captains Charles D. Burrass, or Burroughs, and Bluford K. Thompson clashed in this vicinity with Comandante Manuel de Jesús Castro's Californians on November 16, 1846. Each side suffered several men killed and wounded. The Americans saved a large herd of horses for Lt. Col. John C. Frémont, who later proceeded south to participate in the Armistice at Cahuenga in January 1847.

Photo: Andrew Ruppenstein