Editing Colusa County, California (section)

=== European settlement ===
Present-day Colusa County was included as part of three Mexican land grants: John Bidwell's smaller 1845 Rancho Colus grant, which included the modern city of Colusa;<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/reportsoflandcas01hoff|title=Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California|last=Hoffman|first=Ogden|publisher=Numa Hubert|year=1862|location=San Francisco|pages=[https://archive.org/details/reportsoflandcas01hoff/page/37 37], 41}}</ref> the larger 1844 Rancho Jimeno grant, which surrounded the Colus grant;<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/hb3r29n84g/z1&order=2&brand=oac4|title=Plat of the Colus Rancho|publisher=U.S. Surveyor General's Office|year=1860|location=San Francisco}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> and the 1844 Larkin's Children grant, located upriver from Colusa near the present town of [[Princeton, California]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Thomas O. Larkin: A Life of Patriotism and Profit in Old California|last=Hague|first=Harlan|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=1995|isbn=0806127333|location=Norman|pages=182}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.slc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1982-GrantsSpanishMexican.pdf|title=Grants of Land in California Made by Spanish or Mexican Authorities|publisher=California State Lands Commission|year=1982|location=Sacramento|pages=25–26}}</ref>