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Pioneer Spanish rancher in 1870s San Diego County.  In 1873, Domingo Pujol, Francisco Sanjurjo and Juan Murrieta purchased the majority of the Little Temecula, Temecula, and Pauba ranchos. These men moved thousands of sheep onto the lands, which eventually caused problems with resident Native Americans. In 1875 Sanjurjo was involved in a case that led to the eviction of Native Americans from lands in Temecula. A few years later, though the activism of Helen Hunt Jackson, the U.S. government established the Pechanga Reservation per an 1882 Executive Order by President Chester A. Arthur.