
DATE OF BIRTH: August 20, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH: San Buenaventura, Alta California, Mexican Republic
DATE OF DEATH: June 19, 1915
PLACE OF BURIAL: Santa Barbara, California, USA
References
1900 US census, Santa Barbara County, California, population schedule, Santa Barbara, p. 131 stamped, 10A (penned), household 270, Fernando Librado, digital image, Ancestry.com. (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed December 30, 2015), citing Family History Library microfilm 1240110.
Blackburn, Thomas. December’s Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives Collected by J. P. Harrington. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975: 18.
Hudson, Travis. Breath of the Sun: Life in Early California as told by Chumash Indian, Fernando Librado to John P. Harrington. Banning: Malki Museum Press, 1980.
Hudson, Travis. “Recently Discovered Accounts Concerning the ‘Lone Woman’ of San Nicolas Island.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 3 (1981): 190–193.
Johnson, John. “The Trail to Fernando.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 4 (1982): 132–138.
Schwartz, Steven J., Susan L. Morris, John R. Johnson. The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island: Her Story from Native American Sources. Presentation at the May 2018 meeting of the Santa Barbara County Archaeological Society, Santa Barbara, California.
Last updated: November 16, 2018