perpetuate the memories of his father's reign in 

 Marin County as a Spanish Don. 



"Jim" [Taylor, owner of the Camp Taylor resort about 

 four miles from Olema] contacted Mr. Juan Garcia 

 and contracted with him to take over the 

 management of the livery stable service for the hotel 

 guests. 



Juan was delighted with this opportunity to not only 

 add financially to his livelihood but to also place 

 before the public his prized possessions and thorough- 

 bred horses. His stable and equipment were brought 

 to Camp Taylor and I can still, in memory, see the 

 astonished guests as Juan Garcia, himself a typical 

 Spanish Don, drove around to the front of the hotel 

 each morning to take a large number of hotel guests 

 for a day's drive through beautiful Bear Valley. Mr. 

 Juan Garcia had a large "Carry-all." This was a six- 

 seated conveyance which could comfortably seat 

 twenty-four persons. This coach with his four 

 beautiful horses, bedecked in their silver-mounted 

 harnesses, champing at their bits, attracted each day 

 an interested crowd of spectators. Mr. Juan Garcia 

 appeared each morning at precisely ten o'clock, seated 

 proudly in the driver's seat of this immaculate 

 equestrian outfit . . . . 50 



Juan Garcia lost all too, apparently through gambling. According to the 

 San Rafael Independent, Garcia "permitted the yellow gold to slip through his 

 fingers . . . the gambling table was one of his weaknesses, and he often bet a 

 thousand dollars at the turn of a card." Juan died penniless at age 80 in 1913. 

 Today, there are no Garcia descendants living in the Olema Valley. 



50 Bertha Stedman Rothwell, Pioneering in Marin County (typescript, 1959), pp. 185-187; 

 Munro-Fraser, Marin County, p. 456. 



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