Land Purchase
In 1844, she used her revenues to purchase from two Indians the 4,400-acre (18 km2) Rancho La Purísima Concepción in Santa Clara County, south of San Francisco. Juana Briones managed to retain the title to her land in San Francisco and Santa Clara counties throughout the tumultuous American period that followed the Gold Rush. Briones excelled not only in business and farming: her reputation for hospitality and skills in medicine were widely recognized. She trained her nephew, Pablo—who was later known as the Doctor of Bolinas (California)--in medicinal arts, although she never received a formal education and could not read or write.
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