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Bears, Cougars, and Wild Animals of Pacific Valley
Winter in Pacific Valley meant bears in the stock pens and cougars in the hills.
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Story of an ‘Empire’ Symbolized by Chimney
A lone stone chimney above Lime Kiln Canyon is all that remains of Victor Girard's redwood-pole mansion — an empire that lasted barely a decade.
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Missouri Ellen Marrs 1862–1944
Missouri Ellen Marr (January 22, 1862 - April 1944) was born in Fannin County, Texas. She married Robert Taylor Alderson and they moved to Durant, Oklahoma in 1918. They lived at 904 North 2nd Avenue and were members of the Methodist church. They had four children: Richard M. Alderson, Barley Hamilt…
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The Baronettes: An Acadian Origin, and a Signer Who Was Not Ours
The family says Sarah Barnes came of French Acadians expelled in 1755, and that her mother was first cousin to a signer of the Declaration. One of those is likely; the other does not survive checking.
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An Old Landmark Lost with Removal of Mansfield Home
'This old house is getting shaky...' — watching the Mansfield home, a Pacific Valley landmark for generations, hauled away.
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California-Oregon Coastline Unfolds Majestic Panorama
Two coast natives drive north to Oregon and back — Mabel's own road trip up the Pacific edge she loved, September 1961.
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Camaldoli Hermits Live in Seclusion
Behind a mosaic sign south of Lucia, white-robed monks keep medieval silence on 600 acres above the Pacific.
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Camp Pico Blanco Is Ideal For Scout Summer Activity
In the Ventanas — 'the Windows' — below Pico Blanco, the Boy Scouts made a summer camp of the old Harlan country.
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Dani Family History Is Told
A shelf of level land a thousand feet above the sea: the Dani place, where Gabriel Dani built a one-armed empire and Lucia got her name.
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