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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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From Mabel’s pen
Prized Possession of the Coast Are Its Big Trees
'My earliest memories are of playing house in a hollow redwood' — Mabel on the big trees, oldest of living things and the coast's proudest possession.
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Frank Digges
Frank Digges was the second husband of Doreen Krenkel Whitney. FAMILY LAND: The Digges family had a place on the mountain up from Mill Creek, near Lion Creek along the Nacimiento-Fergusson Road. This was the same area where Edward Sans operated his saw mill. MARRIAGE: Married Doreen Krenkel Whitne…
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Poem To Pacific Grove, Salinas and Gonzales Rebekah Lodge
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Poem To The Ladies of St. Luke’s Guild – In Memory of Olive
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Rugged Monterey Coast Line Is Paradise for Rock Hounds
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The Bear Hunt Gone Wrong - Men Fall on Bear
The plan was flawless: wait in the tree above the bear's kill. Nobody consulted gravity — or the bear. A true Plaskett Creek comedy, retold.
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Vasquez the Bandit at Priest Valley
Mrs. Trescony, who lived to 97, remembered the day the bandit Vasquez came to her parents' Priest Valley ranch as a charming young man.
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The Tres Pinos Massacre
A newspaper account of the night Tiburcio Vasquez's gang broke into Snyder's store at Tres Pinos — and left three men dead.
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